User:Paulus490/Gerry Queen

Gerry Queen was a Scottish professional footballer, best known for playing for Crystal Palace FC. He was born on 15th January 1945 in Glasgow, near to Ibrox Stadium and went to school with Tony Taylor, Jimmy Robertson and Tommy Craig. As a schoolboy he represented Glasgow. At the age of 15 he left school and played for a while in the Paisley & District Juvenile League. A year later he started an engineering apprenticeship with Rolls Royce and stayed for 6 years, playing football as a part timer. He joined St.Mirren FC shortly after leaving school, but played for other teams including Johnstone Burgh and Drumchapel Amateurs. After playing for St.Mirren reserves he made his 1st team debut at 17 v Aberdeen. In 1966, after 5 years at St.Mirren he was transfered to Kilmarnock were he scored two goals on his debut. After three sucessful years at Kilmarnock he signed for South London club Crystal Palace FC in July 1969. Palace had just been promoted to the Football League Division One for the first time. Gerry's debut match was also Palace's 1st Division debut v Manchester United, a match in which he scored. Gerry was at Palace for three seasons, making 101 League appearances (+ 7 as substitute), scoring 24 goals. In September 1972, Gerry was transfered to East London club Leyton Orient FC. In five seasons he made 149 Football League appearances for Orient (+ 7 as sub.), scoring 34 goals.

references: 1) Crystal Palace FC programme v Ipswich Town, dated 13 November 1971. 2) Book - Football League Players' Records 1946-1988 (Barry J.Hugman; Arena Press; 1988)