By Tom English BBC Scotland 2 Aug From the section Scottish Share this with Digg Facebook Google LinkedIn Reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Copy this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49196823 Read more about sharing. Around this time last year, as a kind of curtain-raiser to all the bonkers things that were about to happen in Scottish football in the months ahead, a decapitated pigeon fell out of the sky above Hampden and crashed to earth as Queen’s Park were playing St Mirren in the League Cup. It seems that some players gathered around the unfortunate bird and then stared to the heavens in bewilderment in an attempt to figure out how the hell it lost its head. This year’s favourite warm-up act involves Kevin McCormick, Queen of the South’s groundsman, and his on-going battle with the Palmerston Park seagulls. Kevin has pulled out all the stops to get rid of them. He’s played bird of prey noises over the sound system, but the gulls laughed at him. He’s flown a bird of prey kite around the place but the enemy were having none of it. Kevin says he stayed on the pitch until 11.30pm on the night before one League Cup game. A human scaregull…. Read full this story
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