Glenafton Athletic are huge favourites so no pressure on us in cup, says East Kilbride Thistle co-boss
dailyrecord.co.ukEK Thistle co-boss Alan Paterson says the shackles will be off his side when they tackle top flight side Glenafton Athletic in the West of Scotland League Cup this weekend.And he insists his side should have no fear of putting in a performance, given they’ve already caused a cup shock this season when they knocked Broughty Athletic out of the Junior Cup back in August last year.The Jags are set to play host to the Premier Division side in a second round fixture that has been moved to K-Park - home of Lowland League EKFC - to give it the best chance of going ahead.Paterson’s men were sidelined at the weekend when a waterlogged Showpark forced their WOSFL Conference C clash with Larkhall Thistle to be postponed, and that will also aid his side’s efforts.He said: “Glenafton is one of those games we can go into with the shackles off.
Nobody is expecting us to do anything.“It will be similar to Broughty Athletic for us. We’ll go there and enjoy the occasion, see what happens.“You want glamour ties, you want to be tested against the best.
We are playing one of the big names in Junior football, with a strong pedigree. They’ll fancy going pretty far in the cup so all we can really do is try and give a good account of ourselves.“It will give the younger boys a chance to experience what it takes to play at the top at this level as well.”On Saturday’s postponement, he added: “It was disappointing that the game was off.
The park was frozen all of last week and the park was looking really good on Friday, but that downpour on Saturday just killed it.“It was the right decision, especially when you look at the weather the rest of the day.
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