Eddlewood's Hampden glory day

May 29 2008

EDDLEWOOD AFC captain Derek Innes, flanked by John Paul Kerr and Mark Brown, lifts the top prize in Scottish amateur football.

Roared on by hundreds of fans at Hampden Park in Glasgow on Sunday, the Hamilton team won the Scottish Amateur Cup with a stunning 1-0 victory against Queen’s Park’s under-19s.

The only goal of the game came from Brown, a steel erector from Whitehill,

He fired home from 30 yards to give his team an advantage they never surrendered, despite intense Queens’ pressure in the second half.

It was one of the high points in a career dogged by misfortune for the 23-year-old ex-Holy Cross pupil.

Brown, who also attended St Paul’s Primary, Whitehill, came through the Ibrox Youth Academy at the same time as Chris Burke, Alan Hutton, and Charlie Adam.

After suffering a back injury, he was released by the Glasgow club.

He recovered from that setback but suffered foot and ligament injuries

(Continued on page 95)