Former St Mirren star Billy Stark opens up on season he felt Buddies could have won the Premier Division
St Mirren midfielder Billy Stark believes his Buddies passed up a golden opportunity to win the Premier Division in 1980.After an impressive sixth place finish in the 1978/79 season the Saints shot up the table the following campaign, in part thanks to the goalscoring exploits of striker Doug Somner who went on to net an incredible 25 goals to pick up that year’s golden boot.Despite having lost key players Frank McGarvey and Tony Fitzpatrick at the start of the 1979/80 season, to Liverpool and Bristol City respectively, Jim Clunie’s men started strongly and an incredible run of just one defeat in sixteen games had them sitting second in the table in mid-March.Stark himself contributed seven goals up to that point, forming a formidable