Lochlin Highet swapped the press box for the penalty box as he answered Irvine Victoria's eleventh hour SOS call for a goalkeeper.
The 24-year-old normally spends his weekends writing about Scottish Premiership side Kilmarnock, or covering games in the West of Scotland League, for the Kilmarnock Standard and Ayrshire Live.
But on Saturday he put down his notepad and pen and donned the goalie gloves to make his senior debut for Vics in their Third Division clash with Lugar Boswell Thistle.