There are a couple of matches that will, for ever, live in my memory, both of which involved frenetic attacking, crazy defending, tremendous elation, a nerve-wracking comeback - and 10 goals.

And on Saturday, two of the teams involved will be back at the ground where, on Easter Monday, 1957, they shared those 10 goals in front of a crowd of 33,786.

The teams were Queen's Park and Rangers, the occasion a Division 1 game at Hampden, when Queen's were close to finishing their first year back in the top flight, having been promoted the previous season when they only lost five games.

I'd been a QP supporter since my first match in 1954 (Queen's Park v Motherwell, I remember) when we played our own game of football in the bowels of Hampden's cavernous North Stand at half-time. I was hooked.

In 1957, as a 13-year-old, I had become one of a group of young, enthusiastic match-programme sellers who loved the idea of seeing the game free – and making some money at the same time – during a season in which Queen's Park regularly attracted crowds of 10,000-12,000. As a result, we got to know some of the ground staff, which meant we could sneak into cup finals and international games free as well. Happy days.

But on that Easter Monday, as I bawled out, "Programme, three pence, the official programme" from my pitch at the top of Letherby Drive, I had something else to look forward to. The Queen's Park centre forward that day was also my Sunday school teacher and he, Andy McEwan, was up against one of Scotland's all-time greats, George Young.

Not surprisingly, I regularly attended Sunday school, both that season and the following one, when Queen's Park were eventually relegated, but it wasn't so much my religious knowledge that improved, more my background info on the games the previous days. I also kept a scrapbook then in which Andy, a lovely man and an architect by profession, drew the Queen's Park crest and had that page autographed by all the players.

Earlier in the year Queen's had drawn 3-3 with Rangers at Ibrox in a match played out in a snowstorm, which I remember attending with my father. Apart from the weather, the game was memorable for a free kick taken by QP stalwart Bert Cromar, which flew 60 yards through the snow and deceived Rangers keeper George Niven.

So Queen's Park, in a season in which they also beat St Mirren 5-0, Queen of the South 7-0 and Celtic 2-0, all at Hampden, were a force to be reckoned with. But not even an idealistic, enthusiastic 13-year-old could have imagined a scenario in which, late in the first half, Queen's Park were 4-1 up – and had also missed a penalty. My Sunday school teacher, playing in a deep-lying centre-forward role, was giving George Young the runaround, the Spiders No 10, Hunter Devine, had scored a hat-trick, and I was in seventh heaven.

Inevitably, though, Rangers hit back, with two goals from Johnny Hubbard, and the teams trooped off at half-time with a 4-3 scoreline.

Sadly, dreams like that don't last and, in the second half, Rangers' superiority told, with goals from Max Murray, Billy Simpson and Alex Scott, although two Queen's Park players were injured – Junior Omand and keeper Frank Crampsey – and, in the days before substitutes, the Spiders finished the game with nine fit men.

Remembering the match in his book The Game for the Game's Sake, the late Scotsport presenter Bob Crampsey (brother of the QP keeper) wrote: "It was a tremendous fightback by Rangers and, without overstating the case, no other side in Scotland that season could have come anywhere near winning, but at no time did they rise to the heights shown by Queen's in the first half. McEwan tormented Young as that fine player had seldom been taunted, before or since, but Young's standard of field conduct was as creditable as it always was."

And that other 10-goal game? Living in Surrey now, I have been a Queens Park Rangers supporter for almost 40 years and, on September 22 1984, was at the match when QPR went in at half-time 0-4 down at home to a Newcastle team that included Peter Beardsley and Chris Waddle. With six minutes to go Newcastle were still leading 5-3, before QPR struck twice to celebrate a truly memorable comeback.

Football, eh? Don't you just love it.