East Kilbride captain told me it was my turn to shine, says shoot-out hero

East Kilbride star David Ferguson polished off lack-lustre Diamonds, and said captain Jack Leitch told him it was his turn to shine.

Defender Ferguson netted the clinching penalty after Matty Connelly had saved from Chris Mochrie, and while he was nervous, Leitch’s words of encouragement helped enormously.

That sent the Lowland League side into the SPFL Trust Trophy quarter-finals, and Ferguson was delighted to be on the winning side.

He said: “There was a bit of nerves, but I thought through the game we probably deserved to win.

“Matty saved and I knew it was mine to hit. Leitchy gave me a wee push and said ‘it’s your turn, now’, so that was it, I just went up and it hit the back of the net.

“I haven’t hit many penalties. Maybe once before, but years and years ago. Usually it’s your forward players that are the ones who are scoring goals all the time.

“I’m not a goal-scorer, so usually you have your forwards hitting the first five and hopefully it’s done by that point, but it doesn’t bother me.”

Ferguson (pictured below, right) admits it was hard to take when Airdrie levelled through Gavin Gallagher in 86 minutes, and nearly won it when Ben Wilson was sent through on goal 60 seconds later, but reckons they deserved the win over the 90 minutes.

He said: “It’s a hard one to take when you have been dominating the game, but we know if we concede, keep it quiet for the next few minutes and then you’ll get back into the game.

“I think we did, we had another couple of chances after they scored.

“I thought we deserved it over the piece.

“In the first half we dominated the game, then maybe in the second half they changed their shape a wee bit, and caused us a few problems.

“They maybe had a couple of chances, but we had a few in