Queen’s Park manager Callum Davidson leaned back in his chair in the Ibrox press box, pulled his jacket hood over his face, and pulled the toggles in despair.
He had just watched the huge screen at Ibrox flicker with a fresh message. The officials were considering whether his heroic goalkeeper Calum Ferrie had stepped off his line in saving James Tavernier’s 97th-minute penalty.
Moments later, he was able to celebrate after his club pulled off one of the greatest seismic shocks in Scottish Cup history.
Davidson went through every possible emotion from the moment he woke up at 01:30 in a cold sweat at having only four healthy defenders, to the referee eventually blowing the full-time whistle after around eight minutes of stoppage-time bedlamHe had to do it all away from the dugout due to a touchline ban, too.
Instead he was issuing fevered instructions on his phone during half-time, at one point getting up and pointing to his staff violently, all while sitting a couple of seats along from the BBC commentary team. The odds could hardly have been more stacked against Queen’s Park considering all those impediments in their way.
“I couldn’t believe it at the end to be honest,” Davidson told BBC Scotland
Our captain [Ferrie] saved us. The penalty is good, but the save is great. Calum excelled.” He suffered through the drama like his team, which gave everything they had but won.
