After making 57 appearances during the previous three seasons for Manchester United and West Ham United respectively, Roy Carroll had built a solid reputation in the game and his free transfer move to Rangers was seen as an opportunity to play regularly on both the domestic and European scene. Carroll, however, would spend the entire SPL campaign on the substitutes' bench behind Allan McGregor, and his only appearance in a Rangers shirt would come in a League Cup tie with East Fife in the second month of the season. While Carroll got over a frustrating year in Scotland to have a respectable career, this was 12 months lost and he never regained the standing in the game that resulted in Sir Alex Ferguson selecting him 72 times at Old Trafford.
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