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‘I JUST FELL INTO FOOTBALL SO IT’S AMAZING WHERE IT’S LED’

‘I JUST FELL INTO FOOTBALL SO IT’S AMAZING WHERE IT’S LED’

BIG INTERVIEW LYNDON DYKES
By Chris Dunlavy

TEN years ago this week, Lyndon Dykes played up front for Queen of the South in a 5-0defeat to Greenock Morton. The gate at Palmerston Park was 1,635.
Did the 31-year-old ever imagine back then that he’d spearhead Millwall’s push for the Premier League and represent Scotland in front of 64,000 people at a World
Cup? “Na, you must be joking,” says Dykes, who was born in Australia to Scottish parents and also played for Livingston before getting his big move to the Championship with QPR in 2020. “Forget th...

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