DAVID WOTHERSPOON would be happy to sacrifice his summer break for St Johnstone to have another crack at the Europa League.
The Perth side will be in the qualifiers on July 2 if they secure a top-four finish in the Scottish Premiership and Inverness Caledonian Thistle win the Scottish Cup.
If this scenario plays out, Wotherspoon and his team-mates would have just over three weeks of a close season before they would have to report back to work.
However, that is something the midfielder would put up with if it meant his club making it a hat-trick of European finishes.
As a boyhood St Johnstone fan, he watched his side put three goals past Monaco's World Cup winner Fabien Barthez in 1999 and made his debut for the club in their 1-0 win over Rosenborg in Norway two years ago.
Wotherspoon said: "It's been quite a long season, the longest I have been involved in. It's running on to the end of May and straight away you are back into things mid-June if you are in Europe.
"But it would be great to get into Europe and I don't think it would affect folks' holidays. It would just be a great achievement for everyone at the club.
"As a footballer you can't really plan things. Everything can change and you just have to go with it. I think everyone involved in the club would prefer to get into Europe.
"European football was great the last couple of seasons. It is such a great experience, and it would be fantastic to back into the European fold and try to progress further than we did in the past two seasons, because we know we can.
"But we need to focus on what's in front of us, which is Dundee at the weekend."
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