St Johnstone fans were treated to David Wotherspoon opening up his box of tricks one last time before the Premiership break.
And Melker Hallberg and the rest of his Perth team-mates are now hoping the three-time cup winner shows his magic on the biggest football stage of them all.
Wotherspoon’s World Cup selection for Canada has been confirmed.
It came on the back of another impressive display for Saints in the weekend 1-1 draw with Motherwell, which included a moment of penalty box skill that led to Drey Wright’s opening goal.
It’s what Perth supporters and players have come to expect.
Now the Spoony Appreciation Society could soon be getting bigger.
“It would be great for Spoony to play in the World Cup,” said Hallberg.
“He’s done an unbelievable journey to come back from his injury.
“The whole team will want to watch his games.
“It was a classic Spoony Chop, wasn’t it for the goal? Hopefully we see that at the World Cup!”
Top six goal
Staying there (or preferably improving) is the primary goal when the league resumes.
“We are happy where we are in the league,” said Hallberg. “The team has done brilliantly – we’ve got a lot of confidence.
“I said at the start of the season when it was a little bit rocky and we lost a few that we’ve got a good team.
“We just had to take it easy and we would get there.
“We could tell as soon as we saw our squad on the last day of the transfer window that we had a really good one.
“I just thought it was a case of making sure we kept going. The confidence is really high and that’s really good.”
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The former Hibs man added: “To finish this spell in the top six is good for us psychologically. We haven’t set any targets but it’s the top six you want to aim for.
“That’s the part of the league where you want to be.
“We will have a few weeks off, recover and come back even stronger and keep pushing even harder.
“The job we do every day on the training pitch has brought us to the top six.
“We need to keep on at each other every day and keep working hard and hopefully we stay up there.”
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