Queen’s Park Stranraer

ANDY MURPHY

GAVIN MITCHELL

SCOTT GIBSON

ANTHONY QUINN

CONOR MCVEY

PAUL WOODS

SEAN BURNS

JOHN CARTER

BRYAN WHARTON

CRAIG MCLEISH

DAVID GALT

JAMIE MCKERNON

JOE BRADLEY

BILLY MORTIMER

GREGOR FOTHERINGHAM

ANTON BRADY

AIDEN MALONE

DARREN MILLER

ROSS MILLEN

LIAM BROWN

JOSH WATT

EWAN MACPHERSON

OWEN STOTT

ADAM CUMMINS LIAM COOGANS

WILLIE MUIR

CAMERON BELFORD

SCOTT ROBERTSON

LIAM DICK

DAVID BARRON

FRANK MCKEOWN

LUKE WATT

STEVEN BELL

CRAIG MALCOLM

SCOTT AGNEW

SAM MCCLOSKEY

MAX CURRIE

GIULIANO MORENA

KYLE TURNER

CRAIG THOMSON

MARK MCGUIGAN

RYAN THOMSON

CHRISTIAN NADÉ

WILLIE GIBSON

Referee: Colin Steven AR1: Sean Carr AR2: Ryan Oliver

OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME

SPFL League 1

Queen’s Park FC

v

Stranraer FC

Saturday 24th Sept, Hampden Park, 3PM

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Good Afternoon and a warm

welcome to Hampden Park.

Today we face Stranraer in our

SPFL league 1 clash.

Last weekend’s defeat by Alloa

was a hard one to take and the

players certainly didn’t deserve

it.

Having said that as we move to

today’s game, we know we are

capable of winning. If we apply

ourselves as we did last

Saturday we should get the

result we want.

We are happy to have

strengthened the squad further

with Dario Zanatta on loan for 1

month from Hearts.

Bryan Wharton is out for two

weeks now after picking up a

suspension in a development

league match this week.

Enjoy the game.

Gus MacPherson

Head Coach

Keith McAllister

It’s a number of years now

since the Football Spectators

Act called for seating areas to

be installed in all major

football venues. In the light of, particularly,

the Hillsborough disaster, football accepted it.

Not that they could object anyway.

Unfortunately, Scotland, as always, felt

required to follow suit. Thus you have the

situation where teams with support around

the 1000 to 2000 mark have all-seated

grounds, the paying for which is crippling

them. If it hasn’t crippled them already.

Airdrie and Partick Thistle are prime

examples, with the former now boasting what

is actually quite a nice ground, but out of the

way with about four times the capacity that is

actually needed. Indeed, with crowds failing

to make 800 some weeks, the 10,100 capacity

seems ridiculous. And, of course, it is all-

seating.

Back in the day, you paid less to stand. Yer

auld grandma and people with kids or gammy

legs went to the stand. Now, we all pay the

same and, in some cases, that’s top dollar.

For bigger matches, like the recent Old Firm

match, the going rate was £50. Aye, fifty

quid….that runs at paying £10 per goal that

your team conceded if you were a Rangers

fan.

Interestingly, Celtic have a small 2,600

capacity area earmarked for what is termed

“safe standing”. It’ll be interesting to see how

well that works, although such a small area in

a ground that holds 60,000 is pretty much a

token gesture. And UEFA do not allow

standing areas in their competitions…

ludicrous when you think of the smaller sides

who play in the early rounds.

Of course, in most all-seater grounds, you will

have many fans who will stand anyway. Now,

it’s not actually illegal to do so, so you can’t

be prosecuted, but clubs can fling you out as

you are contravening their ground

regulations. The north stand at Hampden has

almost everyone standing at Scotland

matches. It’s actually dangerous, as you are

standing up with a rail running in front of you

at knee height. A wee push and over you go,

possibly doing yourself an injury if your legs

get trapped. I’ve seen it happen many times.

At a couple of matches, the stewards have

told people to sit down or they’d be turfed

out. And they started at the front, doing just

that. They didn’t get too far as the crowd

turned on them, but quite a number were

hauled out.

I firmly believe that standing should be

reintroduced. It works in Germany, with huge

terraces being filled on a weekly basis with no

problems. At our level, there should be no

problem. Like many, I still want to stand and,

I’m glad to say, in most cases stewards in all-

seated grounds have now accepted this and

leave us to it. Some, like those at a ground

not too far from us, still treat the fans with

not much less than contempt, with all the daft

rules that keep the crowd of 400 or so in

check.

There are clubs and stewards who still haven’t

quite cottoned on to the fact that they should

be treating us a bit better. It can be over-

officious stewarding in a division that hasn’t

seen crowd trouble since I was in short

trousers, or daft decisions like the hosts

insisting that our Irn-Bru Cup match goes

ahead at 3.00pm instead of even a hour

earlier, thus giving us time to get back for the

Scotland game that night.

I hear lots of lip service to treating the fans

right, but sometimes this is in direct contrast

to what actually happens. Rise up, brothers

and sisters!

On This Day- 24 September 1983– Frank McCrossan

Queen’s Park 5 East Fife 2

On this day 33 years ago, Queen’s

Park welcomed East Fife to Hampden

Park for a Scottish League Second

Division match. Queen’s had made a

pretty awful start to the season and

languished at the foot of the table with

no points from the first five games.

Eddie Hunter’s men were clearly up

against it as the Fifers were in third

place and boasted three players –

Gordon Marshall, Stevie Kirk and

Gordon Durie – who would go on to

make a name for themselves in the

game.

Despite being underdogs, Queen’s

Park made a good start to the match

and took the lead in six minutes when

Lex Grant fired an angular drive past

Gordon Marshall in the East Fife goal.

Two minutes later, Queen’s were

awarded a penalty when Stevie Kirk

brought down Jimmy Gilmour in the

box. The winger took the kick himself

but his effort was saved by Marshall.

East Fife drew level in 12 minutes.

Kenny Brannigan cleared an O’Brien

shot off the line but the ball broke to

Graham Hutt who slotted it home. The

Fifers suffered a blow in 37 minutes

when centre forward Gordon Scott was

sent off for dissent after having been

booked previously. Queen’s took

full advantage of his departure and, in

44 minutes, a Jimmy Quinn header

from a Gilmour cross put the Spiders

ahead at the break.

Three minutes after the restart, Lex

Grant extended the Queen’s Park lead

with a fine solo effort. However, the

ten men were not about to lie down

and, in 51 minutes, substitute Jimmy

Allan scored a second goal for the

visitors. It was now all to play for and

the outcome of the match was in doubt

until the 78th minutes when East Fife’s

centre half Ken Halley got his

marching orders for a second bookable

offence. Not surprisingly, Queen’s

Park then took command and added a

further two goals through John

McNiven (80) and Jimmy Quinn (89).

The Queen’s Park side that gained the

first two points of the season was –

Stevie Ross, Dave Hunter, Michael

Heron, Joe Woods, Kenny Brannigan,

John Ward, Paul McLean, John

McNiven, Jimmy Quinn, Lex Grant

and Jimmy Gilmour. Substitutes

Gerry Bonner and George Crooks.

Today’s opponents Stranraer went

down 2-0 to Forfar Athletic in a First

Division fixture at Station Park.

The “New Firm” of

Aberdeen and Dundee

United were at the peak of

their powers in 1983 and

their clash at Pittodrie

attracted a crowd of around

22,000. By contrast, there

were only 12,500 at Ibrox

for the visit of St Johnstone.

A 16-year-old boy in

America, who found

over a million pounds

worth of gems, struck

it lucky. He had

come across the gold,

diamonds and rubies

on a track near his

home and handed

them in to the police.

Six months later, they

were handed back to

him under Florida’s

“finders keepers” rule

because no one had

claimed them.

Jocky Wilson, one of

the real characters of

Scottish sport, turned in

a great performance to

regain the British

Professional Darts

Championship crown.

He defeated Englishman

Dave Whitcombe by

seven sets to two to lift

the title and the £8,000

prize money.

Clyde and Airdrieonians

drew 1-1 at Shawfield. The

Bully Wee fans in the

crowd of 600 were not

happy with the way their

team was performing and a

section set up a chant of

“Brown must go”. Little

could they have imagined

that their under fire

manager, Craig Brown,

would go on to lead

Scotland to the 1996

European Championship

and 1998 World Cup finals.

Six months after

coming into

circulation, the new

pound coins were

becoming an

increasingly rare

sight in Scotland.

Many shops were

refusing to handle

them because they

were too heavy and

shoppers complained

if they got them in

their change. The

three major Scottish

banks preferred to

issue their own pound

notes and would not

hand £1 coins across

the counter unless

specifically asked for

them.

Tony Knowles gained

revenge for his 15-16

defeat in the World

Championship when

he thrashed Cliff

Thorburn 6-2 in the

first semi-final of the

Lang’s Supreme

Scottish Masters at

Glasgow’s Skean Dhu

Hotel. In the other

semi-final, Steve

Davis outgunned Alex

Hurricane Higgins

also by six frames to

two. Davis won the

final 9-5 on the

following day.

Eight people were arrested

during a demonstration by

KNO (Keep NATO Out) and

CND at the NATO base in

Stornoway. More than 60

demonstrators gathered at the

access road and blocked

vehicles belonging to the

contractor engaged in the first

phase of the £40 million

extension to the base.

Events Elsewhere on 24th September

Supporters’ Notes Away Travel Although we won’t be running transport to Coatbridge on 1st October, our next away bus will be Dunfermline in the Irn Bru Cup 4th Round. Unfortunately, Dunfermline won’t budge from a 3.00pm kick off (Scotland are at Hampden that evening). DUNFERMLINE - Saturday 8th October Clarkston - 12pm, Mount Florida – 12.15pm and High Street – 12.30. Cost £10 for those in employment and £8 for concessions. Again, we’d ask you to help us by booking for every match. Contact Graeme Shields at gshields.65@btinternet.com or 07730 587526 to book. Tickets will also be available at the souvenir shop or myself. Quiz Night – Saturday 17th September A big thank you to everyone who came along last Saturday to support this event. Once again we made a few bob to help us subsidise the away buses. Souvenir Shop The new kit is here…but we have run out of the bigger sizes in the home blue already! Tops are £40 for adults and £35 for youths and we have socks and shorts for both kits, with a discount if you buy the lot. Note that sizing is a wee bit smaller than last year’s kit. We have reordered the larger items of the blue kit, taking account of the (ahem) generally larger size of our supporters. So, if we don’t have your size in stock, fear not. We’re tinkering with the online shop, so it’s been down for a wee while. Hopefully it’s now back and the new kit should be available. We’ll build up the number of items available over the next couple of weeks. We should also have the much-loved Queen’s Park macaroon bars and tablet in stock today. HAMPDEN PARK TO HOST “SLEEPOVER” FOR HOMELESS CHARITIES We’re happy to support the initiative that one of our fans, Alan Gray, is helping to organise. Hampden is to play host to an unusual fundraising initiative to raise money and awareness of homelessness in Scotland. The Hampden Snore event will take place on the 30th of September with participants spending the night sleeping trackside to support the work of The Bethany Christian Trust and Street Soccer Scotland. Participants in a SleepOut are expected to spend the night outside using warm clothing, a sleeping bag, and possibly cardboard as a shelter. Safety is paramount throughout the event with stewarding in place, including first aid provision, and access to a warm dry space as well as toilet facilities. For further information and to register for the event please visit: www.hampdensnore.com and the Souvenir Shop has some flyers. 60 Club The first draw of the season will take place today in the Social Club.

Race Night – Saturday 15 October The quiz nights we organised last year were a huge success and we’ll continue running them this season. We will also be joining the supporters’ football team to host a race night on Sat 15th October. More details next week, but tickets are available at £5 from Andy McNaught (junior) or Martin Harvey who’ll be stoatin’ about the club bar in the JB McAlpine. YOUNG FANS! The Black and White Club for younger fans will run again this year. New members must be twelve years of age or under, but existing fans can remain in the Club until they’re 16. Membership forms can be obtained from the club shop on match days, from Frank McCrossan, John Richmond or by emailing f.mccrossan@ntlworld.com Membership is free and we’re hoping that we can attract a record number of members this year. Keith McAllister hampdenfan@yahoo.co.uk

SPOTLIGHT ON 1966-67 24th September 1966

On 24th September 1966 Queen’s Park

travelled to Central Park to play

Cowdenbeath in a Second Division match.

The Spiders line up was J Taylor T

Barr W Neill I

Robertson DS Holmes E Hunter M Hay

NC Hopper P Buchanan I Campbell and AL

Watson.

Queens got off to a superb start with 2 goals

in the first ten minutes, Both scored by

Watson. Cowden’s defence looked at fault

for both goals. In the first Minute Watson cut

in to shoot home from close range. For the

second he intercepted a passback from

defender Jack to net after 10 Minutes.

The home side rallied though , and staged a

fighting comeback. Captain Burns put in fine

Skippers performance, driving the Miners

forward. Following one fine run he produced

a shot which goalie Taylor only saved at the

second attempt. There would be no saving

of points though . Cowdenbeaths’ only goal

came 5 minutes into the second half . A

Junior triallist playing at inside right struck

with a low hard shot from 25 yards . 2-1 to

the jolly old Queens was the final score .

Todays opponents Stranraer had a 2-1

home victory over Alloa that day .

In another second division game Third

Lanark drew 1-1 at home with league

leaders Morton . The Hi –Hi were unlucky

not to pick up more than one point . Morton

were hampered by the loss of Danish wing

half Arentoft with a gashed knee after 20

minutes . Thirds went ahead just before the

interval . Fyffe shot against the crossbar and

Kilgannon knocked in the rebound . It wasn’t

until the last minute that Morton equalised .

then Harper crossed for Mason to score .

In the First Division Celtic won 2-1 at

Dundee. 25,000 were in the ground,and kick

off had to be delayed to let several thousand

more in. Celtic had the better of the early

attacking play, but it was the home side who

took the lead after half an hour. Penman

shot home from 20 yards,after good

approach play Cameron, Campbell and

MacKay.Celtic equalised 5 minutes

later,when Johnstone was pulled down by

Cox. It looked as if the foul had been

October, our next away bus will t budge from

or 07730 587526 to book. Tickets will also be available at the

A big thank you to everyone who came along last Saturday to support this event. Once again

but we have run out of the bigger sizes in the home blue already! Tops

s kit. We have reordered the larger items of the blue kit, taking account of the (ahem) generally larger size

s now ll build up the number of items available over

s Park macaroon bars and tablet in stock today.

re happy to support the initiative that one of our fans, Alan Gray, is helping to organise. Hampden is to play host to an unusual fundraising initiative to raise money and awareness of

cardboard as a shelter. Safety is paramount throughout the event with stewarding in place,

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committed inside the box, however

Referee Mr Thomson of Edinburgh gave

the Free Kick outside. Justice was done

however when with a goal from excellent

set piece play.

Auld chipped the ball in to McNeill,who

headed on for Lennox to hammer home.

Substitute Chalmers grabbed a second

half winner for the Celts.

Rangers had a more straightforward win,

3-0 over Aberdeen at Ibrox. Willie

Henderson was the chief architect of the

Blue Victory. With a fine display of strong

running and on the ball trickery.

Henderson scored the opening Goal

himself,the others came from Johnston

and Mclean.

There were a couple of high scoring

games in the top division. Hibs had a fine

7-0 home victory over Partick Thistle, and

Motherwell won 7-0 away to St Mirren,

Bobby Campbell scored all 5 ‘Well goals.

The following midweek saw Scottish clubs

in European competition. On Tuesday

27th rangers were at the Oval in Belfast,

to play Glentoran in a European Cup

Winners Cup Preliminary round first leg

tie. The 1-1 draw would have been

disappointing from a Blue point of view.

Their only goal came early From George

Mclean.Glentoran equalised in the last

Minute. Ex Celtic player Colrain touched

the ball to Scottish Inside Forward Sinclair

who drove into the net from 25 Yards

The following night Celtic entertained FC

Zurich in the European Cup,they won 2-

0 against a Swiss side who often used

illegal means to Thwart their

opponents.Jimmy Johnstone came in for

particularly rough treatment. Goals from

Tommy Gemmell gave the Celts a

decent first leg lead to take to

Switzerland.

Dunfermline played their Second Leg

match in the European Cities .They

Welcomed Norwegian side Frigg to East

End park, and defeated them 3-1 ,the

same score as the first leg in Norway.

SEE YOU NEXT HOME GAME

YOURS IN THE BEAUTIFUl GAME

DAVE MACPUZZLE

SCOTTISH FOOTBALL MUSEUM

The Visitors – Stranraer FC

The Manager – Brian

Before going into management Reid had lengthy playing career saw him with spells at

Greenock Morton (two spells), Rangers, Newcastle United, Burnley, Dunfermline Athletic,

Blackpool, Falkirk, Queen of the South and finishing at Ayr United. He began his

management career with his last playing club Ayr United before moving abroad to take

charge of Filipino club Global F.C. After a spell in charge of the Philippines under 23 squad,

he was appointed manager of Nuneaton Town in April 2014. However he left the club in

September 2014 by mutual consent. He took over the reigns at Stair Park in May 2015.

Key Players

Steven Bell - Defender

Steven signed a short term deal in November 2013 and the Blues were delighted to help

him back to match fitness. Started his career with Dundee United but only played in pre-

season games for them before joining Queen of the South in 2005 but he only played twice

for them. He joined Stirling Albion for 2005/06 and made almost 100 Binos appearances

before moving to Dunfermline in 2008. After 80 games at East End Park, a serious injury in

November 2010 looked to be the end for him but he has fought back and proved still to be

a classy central midfielder. This season he has taken on the added responsibility of club

captain.

Willie Gibson - Midfielder

Willie is a man of many clubs however the cultured skillfull winger/playmaker returns for

his second spell with the Blues after becoming a firm favourite last time round with the

fans. Willie was signed last summer by previous Blues manager Stephen Aitken for

Dumbarton. The Doonhamer jumped at the chance to come back to Stranraer at the

beginning of the January transfer window 2016. He signs on a 18 month deal.

Craig Malcolm - Striker

Malky returned to Stair Park in the summer of 2014 having spent 3 seasons at Stranraer

before he moved to Somerset Park for the 2013/14 season. His goal return for the Blues of

60 in 125 appearances was a tremendous return and a ratio he couldn’t replicate at Ayr

with 9 goals in 39 outings for them. Stranraer originally recruited him from Arthurlie where

he was a prolific scorer in his 5 seasons with the Barrhead club who had had joined after

only a few games for Raith Rovers. His goal touch remains with 8 more this season and he

can claim 80 goals in his 188 Blues appearances.

Head to Head

Played 129 Queen’s Park 47 Draw 31 Stranraer 50

Club Records

Most league points in a season

58, Second Division 1993-94 (2 points for a win)

79, Third Division 2003-04 (3 points for a win)

Most league goals scored by a player in a season

Derek Frye – 27 goals in season 1977-79

Record attendance

6,500 v Rangers on 24th January 1948

Record victory

9-0 v St Cuthbert Wanderers in 2010 Scottish Cup

9-0 v Wigtown in 2011 Scottish Cup

Record defeat

1-11 v Queen of the South in 1932

Club Honours

Scottish Second Division: (third tier)

Winners (2): 1993–94, 1997–98

Runners-up (2): 2004–05, 2014–15

Scottish Third Division: (fourth tier) Winners (1): 2003–04

Runners-up (1): 2007–08

South of Scotland Football League: Winners (1): 1948–49

Scottish Challenge Cup: Winners (1): 1996

Scottish Qualifying Cup: Winners (1): 1937