Iain McChesney
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Iain McChesney is a former footballer with Scottish Football League club Queen of the South F.C. of Dumfries. McChesney showed great dedication and commitment to the club. The defender played his first game at the age of 16, and is the club's longest ever serving player. In his career he made 587 appearances scoring 79 goals from 1960 to 1981. This places McChesney second in the Queens all time appearances list.[1]
Iain McChesney signed for the Palmerston Park side of manager Jimmy McKinnell jr in July 1960 from Kello Rovers. Others on the playing staff already were Jim Patterson[2], Ivor Broadis[3], George Farm[4] and Jim Kerr.[5] Others to soon join were future Scotland centre forward Neil Martin[6], right winger Ernie Hannigan (like Martin, Hannigan went on to play in England's top division) and goallie Allan Ball[7]. This was the best side of McChesney's two decades at the club winning promotion to Scotland's top flight and playing there for two seasons. Queens notched a league victory at Celtic Park during season 1962-63.[7]
Iain McChesney scored for Queens on March 26 1970 in the first ever game when Queens played overseas opposition at Palmerston. FC Metalist Kharkiv of Ukraine (at the time part of the U.S.S.R.) were the opponents with Queens winning the challenge game 2–0. This was Queens first game against overseas opposition since the club's 1936 Overseas tour.[5]
McChesney was awarded a testimonial against Ayr United[8] in 1971 for his loyalty.[1] Joining McChesney and Ball to play at Palmerston through most of the 70s was Jocky Dempster.
In 1980-81 with Ian McChesney Queens were promoted from division 2. Also in the side were fellow long servants Allan Ball, Crawford Boyd and Jimmy Robertson and future manager Rowan Alexander.[7] McChesney hung his boots up in 1981 but continued his association with the club as sponge man for a period, and trainer for the local-based players and was assistant manager to Billy McLaren.[1]
Ian McChesney works as an electrician. As part of maintenance work on the floodlights at Queen of the South's ground it was McChesney who climbed up to change the bulbs in the lights.[7]
External links
Notes
- ^ a b c Iain McChesney career profile on "Queens legends" on the Queen of the South website
- ^ Jim Patterson profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website
- ^ Ivor Broadis profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website
- ^ George Farm profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website
- ^ a b "Club History" on the official Queen of the South website
- ^ Neil Martin profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website
- ^ a b c d Allan Ball profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website
- ^ Meeting with Ian Black, QoS FC historian, Palmerston Park, Dumfries, 29/7/2008