Quote Originally Posted by MUSKY View Post
The largest crowd I have been in was back on 6th March 1976 v Rangers in the Scottish Cup QF. I was with my Father in the Portland Road terracing and if I remember correctly I had been unwell and off school for a few days before the game and I was just glad that I got to go. Remember it being packed and noisy with a crowd of around 18700. Unfortunately Queens were well beat and went down 5-0.
I was also at the League Cup QF earlier in that same season (24th Sept 1975) on a pouring wet night. The crowd was around 7500 for that one. We had lost the first leg at Ibrox narrowly 1-0 and we led 2-1 after 90 minutes in this one only for Rangers to level and go through to the SF on a 3-2 aggregate score.
I remember the first of these games as I had a Saturday job working in Kelly's the Ironmongers and we were inundated with Rangers supporters that Saturday but I am not sure what they were doing in an Ironmongers on the day of a game!!
Regarding the League cup Q/F-Rangers won the treble that season under Jock Wallace but we were the first team to beat them over 90 minutes that year which was a tremendous achievement then. If I recall we scored in the 90th minute only for Derek McParlane to score the equaliser in extra time to knock Queen's out. I think that it was one of our fullbacks who scored the last minute goal but cannot recall who it was-O'Hara???