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Annan Athletic are looking ahead to the biggest fixture in their history on Sunday.
I'm sure everyone is well aware of our recent story, but it's still hard to believe how far we've come in such a short space of time.

And to think that a little over 14 months ago we were looking forward to travelling to places like Easthouses and Selkirk.

As it is, we have the small matter of.

As we look forward to this massive game, I'm sure everyone involved at the club, particularly the chairman, Henry McClelland, is casting their minds back to before we won .

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Well, it was a big day for everyone at Annan Athletic on Saturday as the club made its first ever visit to the national stadium.

Although, personally, it wasn't all I had hoped for, the boys dug deep in the second half to after our first half performance.

It would have been interesting viewing to see Andy Gray looking through the possession and zonal statistics from the first 45 minutes as we struggled to keep the ball for long periods.

All credit to the players as they worked their socks off and we had three incredible chances that left everyone with their heads down and disappointed to come away with only one point.

Bryan Gilfillan and Mike Jack both came close when goals seemed a certainty and then Phil Storey had the chance of the match with the last kick of the game. Unfortunately, he screwed his shot wide after doing brilliantly to get into the position in the first place.

I hope the wee man doesn't get dejected and I'm sure he won't because he's a confident boy. In fact, it's easy to forget that he is only 17 years old.

I was correct with my thoughts that the manager would tighten things up by sacrificing a striker and putting an extra man in midfield for the Hampden trip.

Unfortunately I was wrong to suggest that I might have been that man - how silly of me.

That's now four matches where I've not moved from the bench and I'm struggling to understand why that is after the three games I played prior to this period.

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Well, the main talking point for me this week was always going to be as our national team manager - that was until Emmanuel Adebayor came along.

The big chap was involved in just about everything press-related in the build-up to his since signing for Manchester City. His actions during the game, rather than his performance, have kept him on the back pages.

First off, I didn't think he played that well. He scored his goal and had one unbelievable run that Wright-Phillips should have burst the net with - apart from that, I thought he gave the ball away too much and was pretty average.

If I was an Arsenal fan, I would have been more wound up by City's match announcer blasting out his name as man of the match than his goal celebration.

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Hello once again everyone - I hope you are all well.

Well, I don't think anyone that witnessed would disagree that it was a good old game of two halves. The most important thing was to get ourselves into the semi-final of the Alba Challenge Cup and we were successful in that but we certainly put our supporters through the ringer in that first half.

I'm sure Elgin fans will agree that the performance of both teams was night and day in each half and they might have been disappointed to go in only 2-0 up at the interval. But what a turnaround from our players in the second 45 minutes.

Bryan Gilfillan got us off and running with a typical long range effort (he doesn't score tap-ins you know) and immediately you could see the confidence and belief return to the players. The manager made two changes at half-time and both Graeme Bell and Alan Inglis made massive contributions with the goals that put us ahead before Phil Storey rounded off a superb come back with a great individual goal.

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Well, the boys at and although it's only on goal difference we have also moved off the foot of the table.

I won't pretend it was pretty at Elgin City, because it wasn't. The conditions weren't great, with the strong wind meaning we were barely over the half-way line in the second half.

Admittedly, there were a couple of decisions that went in our favour as well and I think in the end we were more than happy to come away with a point.

Elgin have certainly improved their squad and won't be the whipping boys of last year.

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