Good News: Ten-Man Saints Show Perth That You Don’t Give Up, Even When You’re a Goalkeeper Down and Two Goals Behind (at Different Times)
St Johnstone's fightback at Rugby Park gives the city a lesson in sticking at it.
A football in the back of the net: twice, as it happened. Photo: Shaun Ferguson, “Basketball net-football goal - geograph.org.uk - 716345”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
There are some results that feel like a win, and St Johnstone’s 2-2 draw at Kilmarnock on Saturday was one of them.
Saints went behind twice, lost their goalkeeper to a red card, and finished the game with what was effectively nine fit men. They still came back both times to take a point home to Perth.
Substitute goalkeeper Ross Sinclair, thrown on in the middle of it all, made a string of important saves and was widely praised by supporters afterwards.
“That’s Perth,” said a Saints fan from North Muirton. “Things go wrong, you keep going. You don’t moan. Well, you moan a bit. But you keep going.”
A primary school teacher in Perth said she would use the game in class on Monday. “It’s a lesson about resilience,” she said. “And also about not handling the ball outside the box, which is a lesson for life.”
St Johnstone host Dundee at McDiarmid Park on Saturday at 3pm.
The real story: Kilmarnock 2-2 St Johnstone (BBC Sport)
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