Every club has its people who have for some reason(s) or another gone down in club folklore. At Queen of the South, some of those have passed through the club for only a short period, shining brightly on their journey through the football world. Others have stayed for longer, becoming bed rocks of the club for the time that they were there. Below are some of the legends to have brought some warmth to the Palmerston faithful through the generations.
Andy Aitken played for Queen of the South in two spells at a time that marked the resurrection of the club. Playing in three of Scotland´s senior cup finals f ...
Allan Ball has played more games for Queen of the South than any other player in the club’s history. In a career at Queens lasting from the early 60s to the early ...
Jimmy Binning (born Blantyre, July 25, 1927) was a left back who played 288 games for Queen of the South. As well being capped by the Scottish League, Binning is the on ...
On the evening of Queen of the South’s 90th anniversary, March 21st 2009, Bobby Black from Thornhill was sitting with a small group of family an ...
Crawford Boyd was a pivotal defender for Queen of the South in the 1970s. After leaving to spend a season and a half with Hearts, Boyd returned for the run in of the 19 ...
Ivor Broadis is the most distinguished Englishman to have played for Queen of the South. As well ...
Tommy Bryce (Mk II) scored 95 goals for Queen of the South in 297 games placing him 19th in the club’s appearances list and fifth in the scoring chart. A man of h ...
The defensive cornerstone of the 70s and 80s made 340 QoS first team appearances. Nobby Clark is the only man to taste promotion success with Queens as a player and the ...
George Cloy gave Queen of the South service that spanned 12 seasons. A massively enthusiastic utility player with a truly boundless love of football, Cloy’s 334 f ...
A skilful, goal scoring winger with speed to make all but the nippiest full backs feel glacially paced, John Dempster could operate on either side of the pitch. His pen ...
Ian Dickson was born in Maxwelltown (a separate burgh from Dumfries until 1928) in September 1902. As well as playing in the first ever game in Queen of the South histo ...
George Neil Farm played for Blackpool throughout their golden decade of the 1950s and winning the FA Cup in 1953. Farm gained 10 full international caps before spending ...
Willie Ferguson had a short spell with Queen of the South early in his career before spending a decade at Chelsea. He returned to QoS as player and then manager at ...
A pocket sized footballing phenomenon of natural skill and boundless determination, in 624 senior games, Hughie Gallacher scored 463 times in a goal drenched career of ...
Dave Halliday from Dumfries was a stunningly prolific goal scorer. From starting his career at Queen of the South, Halliday ...
George Hamilton started his senior career with Queen of the South before enjoying a long and successful career at Aberdeen. In his five full internationals for Scotland ...
Billy Houliston is the only Queen of the South player to have gained full international recognition with Scotland. As well as his three full caps he was capped nine tim ...
Neil Martin was among the first players to score 100 league goals in both Scotland and England and won three full international caps for Scotland. Known for his strengt ...
Iain McChesney has given longer service to Queen of the South as a footballer than any other player in the club’s history. Queen’s enjoyed the benefit of Mc ...
Ted McMinn played for Queen of the South followed by a highly successful career playing in the top divisions in Scotland, Spain and England. An entertaining character a ...
Jackie Oakes played 457 league and cup games for Queen of the South in a career that spanned 23 years. A quick, athletic left winger, Oakes is fourth in Queens all time ...
Jim Patterson is the goals King of Queens with a record 251 strikes for the club. In a long and distinguished career at Palmerston, Patterson gained international recog ...
Uncharacteristically tall for a winger and with a left foot of mesmerising ball control, Jimmy Robertson was a match winning Queens player in two successful promotion c ...
Willie Savage joined Queen of the South in 1932. For the rest of the decade he formed an outstanding full back partnership with Willie Culbert and enjoyed many of the g ...
Dougie Sharpe is fifth in the Queen of the South appearances table with 431 first team league and cup games. A tough tackling right back, his quality performances were ...
Andy Thomson is the third highest goal scorer in Queen of the South history. His highest scoring season in England was with QPR where he top scored for the club. However ...
Acknowledgements
As but a humble feature writer, most of the information gathered for use in Queens Legends (and also the sections of the club history & and other articles scattered across qosfc.com that I drafted), has been sourced from books, press articles and the internet. There has also been some sterling input from individuals such as some of the participants of the events listed and various football historians. Of the historians the largest single source of information has been Queen of the South`s historian and museum curator, Ian Black. There has also been some fine contributions from web team colleagues, Andy Cowan (I.T. Department), Colin Johnstone (Photography Department) and Bruce Wright (ex QoS program editor, now contributor to the said web articles). Further it is also in order to thank the following for their various contributions:- Allan Ball, QoS Andy Aitken, ex QoS Ann Marie Ballantyne, Airdrie United FC Bobby Black, ex QoS Crawford Boyd, ex QoS, with IT assistance from Alex Boyd Neil Brown, online football database administrator George Burley, ex footballer, now manager Nobby Clark, ex QOS George Cloy, ex QoS Billy Collings, ex QoS Paul Days, Sunderland AFC historian Jocky Dempster, ex QoS Lucy Diamond, proof reader Stephen Done, Liverpool FC museum curator Sir Alex Ferguson CBE, ex footballer, now manager Leslie Fortune, QoS fan Rick Glanvill, Chelsea FC historian Bruce Gilmour, Scottish Football Museum Ian Halliday, son of Dave Halliday John Henderson, Airdieonians FC historian Paul Joannou, Newcastle United FC historian Derek Jones, Blackburn Rovers F.C. historian Davie Kirkpatrick, QoS fan Lynne Laffin, PA to Sir Alex Ferguson Brian Leng, Sunderland AFC historian John Lerwill, Aston Villa FC historian Tommy Malcolm, ex Scottish Football Museum Iain McChesney, QoS Ted McMinn, ex QoS Niccole Ney, Dundee FC Rob at Blackburn Rovers PAPR Jimmy Robertson, ex QoS David Ross, football historian Richard Shepherd, Cardiff City FC media department Jim Stewart, East Fife FC Historian Andy Thomson, ex QoS Hayley Weaver, Liverpool FC
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