Andy Todd’s Jukebox Durie presents…Queens Park, for the sake of playing!

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An update from last week’s Stirling Albion article courtesy of Scott Johnstone (@scottjosh45) who got in touch to point out that Jukebox Durie had got it’s fact wrong. Stirling Albion has spent more time in the first division than the third and was I perhaps thinking of East Stirling? While no team should have the misfortune to be mixed up with East Stirling, unless they are East Stirling, in which case you have my sympathies, I can only apologise to the good fans of Stirling Albion for the mix up and promise that this will be the last time I employ Pete Townsend to do my internet research.

This week though it’s the big one! The only guaranteed Glasgow derby. The biggest match in Scottish football this year – it’s Rangers v Queens Park. The most successful club of the nineteenth century vs the most successful club of the twentieth. Or, for us Queens Park fans currently topping the Div 3 table, it’s the most successful club of 2012 v the third most successful club of 2012 (haha!).

For those that don’t know the history of Queens Park it began with the following words recorded as the minutes of a meeting of 9 JJuly 1867:

“Tonight at half past eight o’clock a number of gentlemen met at No. 3 Eglinton Terrace for the purpose of forming a football club.”

These were the not-exactly-comprehensive-minutes of a meeting to form a football team that help create the modern Scottish game and found the SFA (sorry about that). The team was Queens Park, Scotland oldest club, and the first in the country to adopt team tactics, a passing style and ‘dribbling’ with the ball – something over 140 years later Craig Levein has yet to learn.

Also in 1872 Queen’s Park supplied the entire Scottish side on the very first meeting of Scotland V England. Again, something Craig Levein could learn from as it looks likely his next team selection will involve a Division 3 team too  – no else would have him.

Finally to further separate Queens Park from the rest of Scottish football they took a decision that its players would not be paid and to remind them of that duty they adopted the motto: “Ludere causa Ludendi” – to play for the sake of playing. The club is proud to say that no Queen’s Park player has ever having received a wage from the club. A record Hearts can only dream of…

Here to get you in the mood for game is a song also titled “Ludere Causa Ludendi” – a history of Queens Park put to music:

http://youtu.be/rVO3ie8mqVM

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About the Author
After too many years as season ticket holder at Parkhead, Andy Todd renounced the SPL three years ago to support Queens Park. One team is a rank bunch of amateurs who play in a state of the art stadium and the other is…(I think we can all see where this is going).

Andy has been performing comedy for 18 months but is currently ‘between gigs’ while he writes a book on Scottish property law to be published in Summer 2012. Its potential audience will be less than 300 but his mum will be very proud.

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