We've contributed I think to Scottish football
by giving Scottish football a neutral place to play games
Obviously the surroundings are incredible, the park's incredible
Everything about it's exceptional
You know it's where we play our national games
Hampden holds just over 52,000
Our average home attendance is just over 500
So as you can imagine
It is quite a quiet place sometimes on match days and quite sparse
And sometimes the only thing you hear is the pigeons
at the other end of the park from where the ball is
But it's still home
It was a minute of a board meeting in 1899
and it just says in that minute
it was decided to build the biggest football stadium in the world
I just came because it was my local team
and then you just learn to love the place
Since 1979 I haven't missed a game home or away
Which is quite a wee bit of a record
and I'm quite proud of it
I've missed birthdays I've missed weddings
all sorts of things
and it's just what I do on a Saturday
I'm the same as everybody
You work away, graft away all during the week
and you're just looking forward to Saturday
You see your pals, you get a few beers
go at the football and shout and scream like a flaming idiot
and then you go back home and that's it over and done with
and you're looking forward to the next week
When I found out the fans weren't going to be allowed back in
I was absolutely gutted
I kept hoping that this the virus thing
was just going to disappear overnight
and Nicola would say it's alright to go back to the football Keith
I did message the club and said
How are you going to get me in here?
And I didn't get an answer to that one either
And the lad who's doing the commentary for the stream
said well what about Keith McAllister?
Because they were just looking for somebody to
talk rubbish about football
And I'm your guy
For The Queens it's Willie Muir in goals number one
and number nine Bob McHugh
Number ten David Galt
David Galt picks it out on the left-hand side
and Baynham scores, terrific played by Galt
What a goal!
Terrific from Baynham
Big Baynham
In the right place at the right time
Oh terrific creativity by Galt
Really put it on a plate for the big man
So we've got until March to play at Hampden
So it's one last hurrah
It's such a huge cavernous bowl for the noise
You can hear everything, you can hear sometimes the referees
You can hear the linesmen
It's just an eerie atmosphere
It is quite strange
You're still looking down on this...
It's a magnificent vista
And you know everybody that's there
and you nod to everybody
I'd love to say to you that
I stood here and 50,000 people were watching Queen's Park
but no that hasn't happened
But Hampden Park is just...
It's iconic
The current Hampden opened in 1903
And up until the Maracana Stadium opened
in Brazil for the 1950 World Cup
it was the largest stadium in the world
I'll still be sad to leave it
but we're coming to a new stadium
a new beginning at Lesser Hampden
Now we have to leave and we have somewhere to go
Other teams have really, really struggled
because they've left their ground and they've got nowhere to go
But we've got somewhere to go
and that's terrific
We've got to look forward
We'll never lose our history and all the traditions
but we've got to look forward
I would not want to see this football club disappearing
out of the top four leagues
Without a doubt the most wonderful football club in the world
In terms of the development of the game of football globally
there's no team like us
For all the things that we brought in back in eighteen canteen
So it would be terrible if Queen's Park disappeared
and if we can give ourselves
a wee bit more of a relevance nowadays
by moving up a division or two
I think that'll be great
Quite a glorious return to Hampden Park
Two goals in the first half
I think a bit of a star there
Will Baynham who was your man of the match
Will is you know an Australian guy who was mentioned to me
So we had a look at him
You know we looked at all his videos and that
and then we invited him over
I came over here on trial and
it was a massive gamble during these times
because I didn't really know if I could get back into Australia
So if I didn't get signed I was in a bit of trouble but
luckily it all worked out
Thanks very much Will
Cheers
Thank you
Happy, first three points of the season
You know so a lot of good things there
and lots of improvement as well so all good
It's lovely to keep going to games and keep the record going but
I just love the football