Mirren

British

/ ˈmɪrən /

noun

Dame Helen , original name Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov , born 1945, English actor; her films include Savage Messiah (1972), The Long Good Friday (1980), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) and The Queen (2006), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress

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If it wasn't for their ability to score late winners - 87th and 90th minute in two games against St Mirren, 90th minute and 90th minute in two against Kilmarnock, 90th minute against Motherwell - then their title hopes would have already turned to dust.

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The other big winners over the weekend were fourth-placed Motherwell, with their 5-0 thumping of St Mirren.

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Boy did they need it after last week's defeat away to St Mirren and with both sides of the Old Firm improving since changing their managers.

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McQueen played 30 times for Scotland and made almost 350 appearances for St Mirren, Leeds and United as a central defender between 1970 and 1985, before managing Airdrie and coaching at St Mirren and Middlesbrough.

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If it seemed Hearts made a statement by winning with 10 men at Dundee on Sunday, they upped the ante against St Mirren four days later.

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