WILSON: TOP DUO TIPS GOT ME UP TO PAR

MARK WILSON credits two top-flight dugout stalwarts with helping lay the groundwork on the road to Hampden - with one of them out to slam the brakes come Sunday.

- BY ALAN ROBERTSON

MARK WILSON credits two topflight dugout stalwarts with helping lay the groundwork on the road to Hampden - with one of them out to slam the brakes come Sunday.

But he quips Celtic No.2 John Kennedy and Dundee United boss Jim Goodwin will find their tidbits termed “bulls**t” if Partick Thistle's season goes in reverse.

The Championship club have got their season offto a flier in the 41-year-old’s first permanent management role since being binned by Brechin City five years ago.

Between losing stalwarts such as Stuart Bannigan, his sporting director being hospitalised in Mauritius and an operating budget finalised up to four months later than it ideally should have, it has hardly been plain sailing.