MORTON goalkeeper Ryan Mullen feels penning a new contract with the club is a watershed moment after being able to give up his part-time job in a designer clothes shop.

The former Celtic and one-time Liverpool-linked stopper saw the early years of his time in the game blighted by serious thigh injuries.

He signed for Ton in the summer and immediately had to deal with another fitness setback, before taking his chance to shine and cement himself as Dougie Imrie's number one in recent months.

Fresh from agreeing a new deal to 2025, Mullen is now looking to the future.

He said: "It really is a proud moment for me, especially after the last few weeks where the team have managed to really turn our form around.

"I feel at home here and I'm really enjoying working with David Scott the goalkeeping coach. He's been hugely beneficial for me in the six or so months that I've been here and brought me on leaps and bounds.

"When the talk of an offer came up initially, I was really keen to get it done nice and quickly.

"It's quite a significant moment for me as it means that all the hard work I've put in to get back fit and in a position to go and play full-time football has all been worth it.

"This time last year, I was in Colombia getting treatment in the hope that it would mean I could get to the bottom of the issues with my thigh that were stopping me playing.

"I'd gotten quite frustrated towards the end of my time at Celtic, all I was wanting to do was to go and play, but I kept getting injured and it would've been easy to think that maybe football wasn't for me.

"Even up until last Friday, I was still working in a second job, at the Flannels store, that helped me fund things like going to Colombia.

"Being a goalkeeper isn't ever going to be the highest paid position in the world and that's maybe a side people don't see to being a footballer at this level.

"I really am grateful to the manager there as well as all my family and my partner for supporting me through a really tough period. My manager at Flannels was really accommodating for me, allowing me to prioritise getting back playing as well as picking up some shifts here and there.

"I think in maybe 10-15 years I'll look back and be really grateful for seeking alternative methods of employment, because it's given me life experience that's going to stay with me and I wouldn't have maybe got otherwise."

The 'keeper and his team-mates were left frustrated on Saturday after failing to see off Partick Thistle in what was an otherwise dominant performance at Cappielow.

The perfectionist admits that he'll be looking over Ricco Diack's equaliser in the coming days to see where he could do better.

He said: "We came away from the game feeling as if we should've won it, we had more than enough chances.

"Partick are a good side but we restricted them to very little and that's why it's frustrating that we conceded in the way that we did.

"I'll look at the goal too, because despite it being a good finish I think I could've got a bit more to it. We had chances to stop it from the source too, so we'll look at that."