Norman Blount

Norman Blount is the Scottish former chairman of Queen of the South football club. Blount was instrumental as the new broom that swept through the Dumfries club in the mid and late 90s replacing the previous regime under which the club had gone into stagnation and decline from the late 1960s. Blount was the first of the three chairman who combined have rebuilt Queens to the position the club is in today.

Pre Queens Norman Blount was owner of a successful pharmacy business in Dumfries. His son Mark was part of the Queen of the South youth team that made the 1986 BP Youth Cup final against Aberdeen. The Queens side had beaten Celtic on the way to the final.

Queens chairman Norman Blount became chairman of Queen of the South in April 1994. Very quickly new ideas came along that showed that the club was in a new era:-

The new stand was built within 1 year of Blount becoming chairman However in November 1999 Blount candidly announced that he felt that he had taken the club as far as he could and resigned from being chairman.

Players to have signed for Queens during the Blount regime include Jamie McAllister, Derek Townsley, Jim Thomson, David Lilley, David Mathieson and Andy Aitken. In a later interview for the club website reflecting on his time at Queens McAllister said, "Norman Blount, the chairman at the time was different class".

Queens after Blount The chairmanship was taken over by Ronnie Bradford who continued the progressive ambition started under Blount. Bradford left due to ill health in June 2003. It has been under Bradford and then succeeding chairman Davie Rae that the seeds sown by Blount have really come to fruition on the pitch. Since the turn of the millennium Queens have enjoyed both league and cup success by:-

Winning the 2001-02 Scottish Second Division to return to the top half of Scottish football Winning the 2002-03 Scottish Challenge Cup Progressing to the 2006-07 Scottish Cup quarter final before losing 2-1 to Hibernian Usurping the 2006-07 Scottish Cup run by progressing beyond the quarter-finals and then eliminating Aberdeen in the 2007-08 semi final. In the club's first ever Scottish Cup final Queens went down 3-2 to Rangers but still qualified for the 2nd qualification round of the UEFA Cup.

Retirement Norman Blount enjoys his retirement playing golf and watching Queens as a spectator. He was among the Queens fans to make the trip in August 2008 to see Queens in the UEFA Cup 2nd qualification round game away to FC Nordsjælland in Denmark. Blount is among the organisers in the events for the Queen of the South testimonial season of Andy Aitken.