St Mirren’s Conor McMenamin credited his goalscoring heroics against Hibernian to his eight-year-old daughter Daisy, who was watching him from the stands.
The Northern Ireland international has only just returned from injury after knee surgery over the summer, and celebrated his comeback with two goals in Saturday’s 2-1 win at Easter Road.
“It’s the perfect return to the starting eleven and the weekend couldn’t have gone much better,” McMenamin told club media. “I had my wee girl over for the first time this year and it’s a weekend I won’t forget.
“Every time she’s here, I have a funny feeling I’ll score or do something for her. I’ll have to ask her mum if she can come back every week at this rate! My mum was there as well to have her here was special. Most importantly, we got three points.”
It was an impressive performance from a Buddies side high in confidence, although Hibs almost clawed a point back with a last-minute goal that was eventually ruled out for offside.
“In the attacking areas, we want to add goals to our games and that’s something that I needed to improve on,” McMenamin added. “I spoke to the gaffer before the surgery and it’s something we wanted to target. To come back and score two on my return, I’m really happy.
“We could’ve been out of sight before Hibs got the first one, but the momentum of football is crazy. It was a crazy second half, anything could have happened.
“The players have set high standards at this club and although we had a sluggish start to the campaign, the last few weeks have been really positive.”