Crighton - First home win is a monkey off our backs, but I knew it'd come
QUEEN’S PARK head coach Sean Crighton was filled with emotions after his Spiders side won their first game at home in the league this season.
Theboss dedicated the 2-1 win over Raith Rovers to Charlie Fox, in hospital with a serious knee injury picked up at Partick last week.
“I actually had a wee chat with the team before the game about putting football into perspective – Charlie won’t be able to play football again this year, they can. So it’s about them going out there and doing the business… and to be fair I actually said that after the game, that was for the big man as well.”
Sean praised his team’s defensive efforts along with keeper Calum Ferrie who pulled off two excellent saves and man of the match Josh Fowler, who scored a double. The manager called it a “proper team performance” and also had a word for the QP fans, as well as his staff.
The Spiders’ boss is hoping to continue this win at home in weeks to come and make the stadium a place no other team wants to come to.
“It’s a monkey off our back, but I knew it was going to come.
“We lost last week – and rightly so but we had a clean sheet and then a clean sheet before that [against Ayr and Airdrie], so that’s three games unbeaten here now.
“As much as you want to say they’re clean sheets and not wins – today it was, with the extra bit that we needed. It’s a monkey off the back and we just need to get back to work again for an away game next week but when we come here we make it like it was today a proper fortress.”
The Spiders host Ross County on the southside a week on Friday – a match live on BBC Scotland. Before then they head to St Johnstone, and will make the trip to Perth boosted by this big win.
Crighton added: “I’m so proud of the group, everybody, because we definitely needed that today. I said they’d rally round Charlie and that’s what they all have done this week, they’re a tight group. It means so much to them, that they’ve done it for him.”
by Leah Johnston, Glasgow Clyde College
