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It’s funny how football stories twist themselves. Three months ago, Alex Duff left the pitch with a broken hand and no guarantees he’d be back this season.
Fast forward to now, and the Queens Park SFC forward has done more than return — he’s scored twice and reminded everyone what persistence looks like.
Opening day. Breaking your hand. Season-derailing in one horrible moment.
Nobody really talks about the quiet parts that follow—those slow mornings, waking up knowing it’ll be weeks before a ball is at your feet again. The gym sessions that feel like punishment, the lingering worry that maybe you won’t be the same when you return. But if there’s anything Duff has, it’s stubbornness—the good kind.
Over the past three months, he’s lived at the gym, visited a number of physio rooms and took part in so many recovery schedules. Tape, ice, stretch, repeat. A circus routine that tests patience more than pain. But football has a way of rewarding the ones who don’t drift while they wait.
Not only back, but back in the only way footballers dream of:
scoring two goals and leading his team to victory. There’s something poetic about that first goal after injury. It’s not just ball hitting net. It’s the body saying, I remember.
It’s months of frustration leaving in a single heartbeat. You could see it—arms out, grin wide, teammates piling on top.
One of those moments that tells you everything about a player before he even opens his mouth.
The Queens Park SFC manager and players fans didn’t need a press release to know what it meant. You could see it in Alex’s face. Joy mixed with relief. Football is built on these tiny bursts of emotion. This was one of them.
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Now the conversation quietly shifts from Will he return? to What next?
Duff has always had a spark—pace, hunger, that stubbornness again. And if this comeback goals are a sign of anything, it’s that he’s not just slotting back into place; he’s picking up a thread that never should’ve been cut short.
Three months is a long time to wait.
But maybe this story is just getting started again.
Queens Park SFC and Alex will be at Nethercraigs this Saturday as they take on Bearsden AFC. Will Alex find the net again?
Get yourselves along to Nethercraigs to support Alex on his road back to full fitness and Queens Park SFC on their GCFA journey.
Stories like this are why we keep showing up on Saturday mornings. It’s not just about trophies — it’s about comebacks, graft, and the moments that tell you a player’s character before he says a word.
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