Yesterday, Queen's Park secured 3rd place in the Scottish Football League Third Division with an impressive 4-1 home victory against Montrose. Striker Jamie Longworth, from East Kilbride, scored a hat trick (for non-football fans, a term meaning 3 goals scored in the one game by the same player). The Spiders now go into a 2 legged promotion play off against league runners up Albion Rovers. The first game is at Hampden Park this Wednesday (11th) but I will miss the second game on Saturday (14th) due to being in Bristol. The winners play a 2 legged final against the winners of the tie between Annan Athletic (4th in the Third Division) and Alloa Athletic (second bottom of the Second Division). Winning both ties will secure promotion for Queen's for only the 6th time in the club's 144 year history.
Traditionally, the final home game of the ordinary league season is followed by the Player of the Year Awards in the Social Club where supporters get the chance to mingle with the players and management. I managed to grab a few words with manager Gardner Speirs after the presentations. Speirs has been manager since taking over from former Celtic and Aberdeen player Billy Stark, now manager of the Scotland under 21 team, in January 2008. He was kind enough to agree to a photograph.
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