Queen’s Park
Kilmarnock
ANDY MURPHY
SAM LIDINGTON
GAVIN MITCHELL
SCOTT GIBSON
ANTHONY QUINN
CONOR MCVEY
PAUL WOODS
LEWSI CLARK
TAYLOR QUEEN
AIDAN WILSON
SEAN BURNS
DEAN HAWKSHAW
JOHN CARTER
JACK WHITTAKER
BRYAN WHARTON
CRAIG MCLEISH
IAIN WILSON
DAVID GALT
THOMAS DEMPSIE
JAMIE MCKERNON
SCOTT MCLEAN
JOE BRADLEY
BILLY MORTIMER
GREGOR FOTHERINGHAM
LEWIS MORRISON
WILLIAM GRAHAM
ANTON BRADY
AIDEN MALONE
DARREN MILLER
ROSS MILLEN
LIAM BROWN
JOSH WATT
MARK WILLIAMS
EWAN MACPHERSON
OWEN STOTT
ADAM CUMMINS
LIAM COOGANS
Referee: Greg Aitken Assistant 1: Paul O’Neill
Assistant 2: Euan Birch
QUEEN’S PARK V KILMARNOCK U20S
Tuesday 2nd August 2016
IRN BRU CUP– ROUND 1
Hampden Park
7.45pm
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Good Evening and welcome
to Hampden as we continue
our summer football with the
first round of the Irn Bru Cup.
We welcome Kilmarnock’s
U20s along with staff and
supporters from the club to
tonight's cup match.
After a good run in last
season’s challenge cup we
look forward to taking part in
the new look tournament and
testing ourselves against a
premiership colt team.
I’m sure both sets of players
will be eager to impress and
try to progress to the next
round.
Enjoy the game!
Gus MacPherson.
Spotlight On Season 1966-67
You might just have heard that 2017 is the 150th
anniversary of the foundation of the jolly Old
Queens.The clubs centenary had was celebrated
in 1967(Obviously), a momentous year for Scottish football. Celtic won the
European Cup,Ramngers reached the final of the European Cup winners
Cup,Kilmarnock reached the Semi Finals of the European Fairs Cities cup and
Scotland had one of their most famous victories over England at Wembley. On
the down side dear old Third Lanark went out of business that year.
This season I’d like to do a series of articles in a “Diary Of a Season” style about
that memorable campaign 1966-67.Starting in the next programme.
Pre season Notes
In the previous season Queen’s Park finished in 13th position(From 19 clubs) in
the Second Division,with 33 points from 36 games.One point ahead of Third
Lanark,who had a point less. They would be hoping for an improvement in 66-67.
The new season would start with the Scottish League Cup group games ( Which
of course are back with us this season !). Queens were drawn in a section with
Airdrieonians,Queen of the South and Dumbarton.
In the summer of 1966 Celtic had gone on a tour of Bermuda, USA and Canada.
They were undefeated in 11 games against Tottenham Hotspur,Bologna,Bayern
Munich,Atlas of Mexico and various local select sides.During the tour manager
Jock Stein tried out a new 4-2 -4 system.With winger Bertie Auld dropping back
into Midfield alongside Bobby Murdoch.This formation would reap great
rewards both domestically and in Europe.
Catch you next time.
Yours in the Beautiful game.
Dave Mac Puzzle
following. According to him, “…
there are good arguments for a
closed system.” So, we’d have a
Groundhog Day of Barca v Bayern
The tournament is run by an
matches, year after year after year.
American sports marketing
A Nirvana for the armchair fan and
company; not, as you might have
his bottle of weak-as-dishwater
thought, UEFA or FIFA. In this
pseudo-American beer and the
year’s competition, there are 18
crisps in a cardboard tube that are
teams taking part; 6 of them are
What is seriously worrying about absolutely necessary for you to be
actually champions whereas the
this tournament are the aspirations cool.
remaining 12 are not. The usual
of the organisation running the
We’re heading for this American
suspects are there, the big names,
system of franchises and the big
irrespective of where they finished tournament, the wonderfullynamed Relevant Sports. They held teams that will benefit from it are
in their country’s league. There
talks in March with the 5 big clubs rubbing their hands with glee. I
are three separate tournaments,
wonder if the likes of Messi will be
being held in China, Australia and in England about the English
league system and the Champions rubbing his hands at the prospect.
one being run jointly in Europe
League. Of the 5, only one has
Maybe not. Was his decision to
and the USA. Matches are being
denied that they advocate a
retire from the Argentine national
held almost everywhere except at
breakaway super league for
side at the age of 29 helped along
the home grounds of the teams
Europe’s top clubs. This starts to by his punishing schedule? I
involved. Celtic’s match with
get frightening. Further to that,
reckon that it is. He’s at his peak
Leicester is the only exception to
and his country (and us) won’t
this rule. I wonder if Signor Messi with Leicester still leading the
pack, Relevant Sports’ heid
have him at the World Cup in two
fancies shuttling around Europe
bummer made it clear that winning years, but Barca will have him at
after his exploits in the Copa
America? I reckon he won’t. Nae your domestic league wouldn’t get Beijing, Chicago or wherever
you a place in what he sees as the Relevant Sports sends him and his
luck, then.
Of course, clubs don’t really seem way forward. Leicester isn’t one of chums.
the “big” sides; places in the New This is just not right.
to mind packing their stars off to
Dawning of football would go to
places to “boost the brand”. It
seems absurd to me that the bigger the teams that carry a worldwide
Keith McAllister play Leicester and Barca (in
Dublin) and will have them tackle
Sometimes I
wonder if football Inter Milan…in Limerick.
is sleep-walking
into oblivion.
Well, oblivion in
terms of that
dreadful phrase
“sporting integrity” as opposed to
financial oblivion. The big clubs
currently have money skooshing
out their ears…but it’s just not
enough. Yes, there is a reasonable
distribution of wealth amongst the
teams in English top division, but
Spain sees a huge proportion of the
football cash there going to Real
and Barca. And the others can’t do
a thing about it.
We’ve just had the Euros and the
American equivalent and there is
the Olympic tournament just over
the horizon. The better players
have had a busy summer, and the
younger ones could be off to Rio.
So, do we need another
tournament for the better teams
and players to compete for? Well,
apparently we do. Step forward
the International Champions Cup;
this is the one that has seen Celtic
clubs subject their players to
punishing pre-season tours,
particularly in years when there
are international tournaments. But
the almighty dollar holds sway.
Our own governing body, of
course, helps this nonsense along
by allowing the postponement of a
league fixture.
Frank McCrossan
Their First Competitive Match
Events Elsewhere on 25 December 1886
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Saturday 25 December 1886 -Kilmarnock 0 Queen’s Park 5
In more recent times, matches between Queen’s Park and Kilmarnock have been
few and far between. However, in the early days of Scottish football, the country’s
two oldest clubs were fairly regular opponents. Their first encounter was a
challenge match in 1873 but the first truly competitive game between the sides
took place on Christmas Day in 1886. The occasion was a sixth round (quarterfinal) tie in the Scottish Cup.
The weather was terrible on that Christmas afternoon. The rugby programme was
pretty well wiped out but the four Scottish Cup quarter-finals went ahead. The
pitch at Rugby Park was in a dreadful state. The poor weather and the counterattraction of another quarter-final at nearby Hurlford had an adverse effect of the
size of the crowd.
Queen’s Park kicked off in a deluge of rain with a strong wind at their backs. The
Spiders pressed from the start and took the lead in seven minutes when Jimmy
Allan blasted the ball high past Richmond in the home goal. ‘Keeper Richmond
was performing heroics but suffered a stroke of misfortune in 20 minutes when his
punched clearance rebounded off one of his own defenders and through the goal
to double the Queen’s Park lead. The visitors were well in command and went
three up in 30 minutes when Walter Arnott set up William Watt for a fine goal.
The same player made it four shortly before half-time with a hard low shot.
Kilmarnock were much improved after the interval and the second half was
keenly, but fairly, contested. There was only one goal in the 45 minutes and it was
Queen’s Park who got it, with William Watt completing his hat trick near the end.
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The teams on that winter afternoon were: Kilmarnock – Richmond; Porteous and Watson; Mitchell, Sawyers and Dunn;
Higgins, Smith, Walker, McGuiness and MacPherson.
Queen’s Park – A P McCallum; W Arnott and R Smellie; C Campbell, H Jones and
A Stewart; A Berry, J A Lambie, W W Watt, D S Allan and J Allan.
Queen’s Park lost to Dumbarton in the semi-final of the competition. The Sons
then lost to Hibernian in the final. This was the Edinburgh side’s first Scottish Cup
and was greatly celebrated by Glasgow’s Irish community.
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In the other three Scottish Cup quarter-finals, Hurlford and Dumbarton drew 00, Vale of Leven won 3-1 at Port Glasgow Athletic, and Hibernian beat Third
Lanark 2-1 at Cathkin Park. The spectators arriving at Cathkin were treated to
the sight of a groundsman shovelling away a large quantity of ice from a pond in
the centre of the pitch. Queen’s Park’s near-neighbours Battlefield were in
Birmingham for a challenge match with Aston Villa. Unfortunately, the Scots
suffered a 5-1 defeat.
Work was being finalised in replacing the paraffin lamps at Glasgow Cathedral
with gas lighting. The minister, Reverend D Burns, and his kirk session were
planning a special evening service by gaslight early in the New Year.
The demon drink was a serious problem in Victorian times. On this day, three
people died in Glasgow after heavy drinking sessions. A labourer died of
“exhaustion from excessive drinking” in a spirit shop (public house) in Clyde
Terrace (now Carlton Place); a 50-year-old man died in Hyde Park Street Model
Lodging House; and a 63-year-old woman was found dead in a close in High
Street.
In an Ayrshire Cup tie in Maybole, where Kilbirnie beat the local side 4-3, the
referee had to intervene to protect the visitors’ umpire from the abusive
language of the Maybole spectators. Perish the thought that such behaviour
should creep into today’s football.
At Edinburgh Summary Court, an engine driver and a fireman of the North
British Railway Company pled guilty to stealing a case containing 12 quart
bottles of whisky, valued at 36 shillings, from a goods yard in the city on the
previous day. By the time they were apprehended, the accused and several
workmates in the goods yard had succeeded in consuming most of the whisky.
The two men were ordered to pay £5 each or suffer 14 days’ imprisonment.
Climatic condition in 1886 were quite difference to those of today. Outdoor
curling was a popular winter sport and, on this day, matches took place on
ponds at Annan, Bothwell, Dunblane, Inverary, Langholm, Largs, Linlithgow and
Lockerbie.
Christmas had been viewed as an English festival but there were now clear signs
that greater attention was being paid in Scotland to the Christmas season.
Almost everywhere, the Post Office had experienced a large increase in the
number of cards and parcels being handled. In Glasgow, the banks, most of the
principal warehouses, and many large employers closed for the day. Between
1,700 and 1,800 underprivileged people were given dinner at the City Hall. The
dinner was funded by the city’s business community. Care was taken to ensure
that only ”deserving poor” were invited.
Supporters’ Notes
Away Travel
Due to the rail strike a week on Saturday, we’ll be taking a bus to Stenhousemuir.
Details of the next two buses are:
STENHOUSEMUIR - Saturday 13th August
Clarkston - 1.15, Mount Florida - 1.30 and High Street - 1.45. Prices: £8 for those in
employment; £6 for concessions and £5 for the under 16s.
BRECHIN - Saturday 20th August
Clarkston 10.30 Mount Florida 10-45 and High Street 11am. Prices: £14, £11.
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.
Souvenir Shop
We’re not sure when the new kit will be available to buy; we’ve heard that the team will
be donning the new home top this Saturday for the first League match. We’re tinkering
with the online shop, so it’s been down for a wee while. We’ll have it back up and
running as quickly as possible.
We’ll be introducing a range of high-quality souvenirs celebrating the Club’s 150th
anniversary.
Membership and 60 Club
The 60 Club will gain be £40 for the whole season. As well as having the chance to win
a right good few bob, you’ll be helping to keep the Association’s away buses on the
road. Applications for both clubs are available from Norrie Walker, Graeme Shields or
the Souvenir Shop. We should have cards available for uplift at the Shop at the next
home match against Killie under 20s on Tuesday.
Quiz Nights
The quiz nights we organised last year were a huge success and we’ll continue running
them this season, with perhaps a race night to vary things a bit. Details of the first event
will be posted here and on the Club’s website very soon.
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