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Queen’s Park launch missing persons appeal after mascot’s head disappears

Queen’s Park’s home, Hampden, will be a poorer place with an incomplete mascot.
Queen’s Park’s home, Hampden, will be a poorer place with an incomplete mascot. Photograph: Stuart Forster/Rex/Shutterstock

Queen’s Park have launched an urgent missing persons appeal after their mascot’s head disappeared from the club pavilion.

The Scottish club tweeted a picture of Harry the Hoopo (with his head intact) and the plea: “We beseech you to leave no stone unturned in the hunt for Harry’s head.

“He is a much-loved Queen’s Park figure and we fear that should his head not be returned there will be many young spiders severely disappointed.”

The League Two club, nicknamed the Spiders, are currently awaiting a ransom note for the missing hippopotamus cranium but say that any information received will be treated in strict confidence.

Just don’t accuse their team of running around like headless chickens.

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