Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Tangerines goal hero full of praise for Arabs
“I don’t think I’ve ever run that far to celebrate a goal. I don’t usually know what to do, so I just trot back to left-back.
“But when I saw my team-mates coming towards me on Friday, my first thought was we’re in this together so get to the bench. I wanted everyone celebrating and to show we are all pulling in the same direction.
“I have to say I’ve watched the video of the goal and it was amazing. I didn’t look at my finish, I looked at our fans behind the goal. Their celebrations were brilliant and so was their support all night.”
Now Dixon’s aim is to give his fellow Arabs more cause to celebrate and play his part in righting a wrong that’s haunted him for more than months now.
“We’ll be ready for Thursday. I said we were tired after Friday and we were but, by the first leg of the final, we’ll have had pretty much a full week to recover and prepare, so we’ll be fine.
“As good as Friday felt, it’s not over and we have a job to do. It’s to get this club back where it belongs — in the Premiership.
“It’s where we should be and it’s where the fans deserve to be, because they’ve been brilliant and I know they’ll be the same in these two games coming up.
“They’ll turn up in much bigger numbers than the Hamilton fans and they will sing and support us from start to finish.
“They will be our 12th man and I want to win this for them.”