Rangers fans told they HELPED Queen's Park to Scottish Cup glory as kingslayer reveals secret of 'biggest upset ever'
Seb Drozd scored the goal Queen’s Park had been waiting a lifetime for.
But the Spiders’ king-slayer admits he once feared he’d never get his own moment of crowning glory as injury left his career hanging in the balance. The 21-year-old former Millwall kid joined Callum Davidson’s side in the summer. The move to Glasgow came as a major relief to the Londoner after he’d spent more than a year out of the game with an agonising back complaint.
But after that long dark period, he is now basking in the bright light of Queen’s stunning Ibrox triumph. Drozd is the new hero of Hampden after his goal sank Philippe Clement’s team to hand Queen’s their first win over Rangers in 77 years and with it a place in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals. And it was a moment that was worth the wait for the goalscorer.
He said: “When you go through such a dark time, when you don't play for so long, thinking you're never going to play again, to be able to do what I did on Sunday was an unbelievable feeling. I came up here last year.
"I was a free agent. I’d been released by Millwall back in May, and then I went through an injury, so I was still doing my rehab there.
"My first game in over a year was up here with Queen’s. It was very tough. There were points when I thought I wasn't going to play again. I was constantly in pain. I wasn't able to do that move without feeling something. But then I came to the decision that I needed surgery and it helped me get over the line so now I can go every day without any pain.
“I had sciatica which started off at first and then developed into slipped discs. Any type of movement hurt. The damage was in my back but it was affecting mainly down my leg. I’ve said this to a couple of people before, I would have