SEASON 2017-2018
MATCH REPORTS
Sad end to what should have been a special season
Queen’s Park 1 Stenhousemuir 2
Just for once in this madcap season, Queen’s went into a game with their fate entirely in their own hands. No matter what happened elsewhere in the football world, […]
All to play for at Hampden
Stenhousemuir 1 Queen’s Park 1
Queen’s headed for the Ochil Hills and a clash with Stenny that would either keep hopes of beating the drop very much alive … or leave us chasing shadows […]
Luke stoops to conquer
Queen’s Park 3 Arbroath 0
For much of the last 150 years Queen’s Park have made a habit of defying the odds.
We’ve won titles and promotions with players too young to shave or be allowed to […]
Taking it to the wire
Forfar Athletic 1 Queen’s Park 1
Queen’s will go into the last game of this eventful season with a chance of securing their League 1 future for another season. A Luke Donnelly goal earned […]
It’s still two close to call in battle to beat the drop
Raith Rovers 2 Queen’s Park 0
The fixture list may have shown that Queeen’s Park were in Fife today taking on Raith Rovers, but your scribe would not have been alone in thinking that […]
Fightback ends in more heartbreak
Queen’s Park 2 East Fife 3
IT’S all come down to this. Four games left of the regular season to dodge the Berwick Ultras, starting today with the penultimate game here at Hampden Park.
To recap — […]
Queen’s close the gap … but it’s a chance missed
Queen’s Park 0 Airdrieonians 0
REPORTS of our death — on and off the park — have been greatly exaggerated, if Homer may quote another venerable scribe.
Games may be disappearing faster than Vladimir Putin’s […]
Old boy network strikes again
Ayr United 4 Queen’s Park 0
One element that has haunted Queen’s throughout this entire season has been the horrible habit our former players have had of returning to score against us. Take Dario […]
Keena at the double as Queen’s win on the road
Stranraer 1 Queen’s Park 3
There’s a tendency to describe every important football match as a “must win game,” and while that exaggeration can be tedious, there was no doubt that the Spiders’ encounter […]
Draws not enough for Spiders
Albion Rovers 1 Queen’s Park 1
You know you’re getting to S.B. time in any season when there’s almost as much focus among the crowd on the games involving teams around you as there […]
Late sting for Queen’s
Queen’s Park 1 Alloa Athletic 2
AS the oldest amateur football club in the world, and the oldest football club in Scotland, Queen’s Park have often been on nodding terms with disaster during our […]
Queen’s Park 2 Forfar Athletic 2
Those brave enough to have followed the Spiders this season will know all too well the highs and lows they put you through and that had been all too evident in the build up to […]
It’s got to get better
Airdrie 2 Queen’s Park 1
No matter where Queen’s finish up after this difficult season, February 17 won’t go down as one of the better days. By the time the clock had reached 3.10pm, […]
Keena’s Kracker rounds off fine day in Fife
East Fife 0 Queen’s Park 2
It’s more than 10 years since Frankie Carroll rounded off a great day at Bayview by scoring the final goal of what had been a magical season as […]
Errors cost Spiders again
We’re approaching the two-thirds stage of the season and it’s fair to say things haven’t gone our way so far.
Sitting very much at the wrong end of the table, the time has come for putting […]
Painful lesson from Ayr finishing school
Queen’s Park 1 Ayr United 4
THERE are few more nervous pursuits than window-watching while your significant other is in some shop testing the melting point of joint-account plastic.
It reminds Homer of the time his wife […]
No late levellers this time
Isn’t it amazing the impact a game of football can have on people? Those 90 minutes (or in the case of Queen’s in recent weeks those 90+ four or five minutes) can send you home […]
Happy ending to this late, late show
Queen’s Park 2 Stranraer 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR in our first match of what promises to be a momentous 2018 at Hampden Park, and belated compliments of the season to you and yours, […]
Adam is spot on for Spiders
Alloa Athletic 2 Queen’s Park 2
Walking into the Indodrill Stadium this afternoon – with the rain lashing down and a chill January wind blowing – it was little wonder the steward shook his […]
Bitter sweet end to 150 years
Queen’s Park 2 Albion Rovers 2
OUR last game of 2017 — or, as it will become revered among anoraks everywhere, the year of Queen’s Park’s Sesquicentenary.
The veterans among us would claim that following […]
Christmas three lights up Spiders’ day
Forfar Athletic 0 Queen’s Park 3
Christmas came early for Gus MacPherson’s gutsy Spiders as they thumped Forfar to move off the bottom of the league table.
Given the importance of the game, any victory […]