From The Guardian website today
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Thread: Hibs humbling Barça
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02-04-2010 12:05 PM #1
Hibs humbling Barça
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02-04-2010 12:16 PM #2
I was in the standing enclosure with my old man at that game. I think it was the most exciting game I've ever seen at Easter Road. The crowning glory was that my dad was friends with Bobby Kinloch who scored the penalty which won the game and caused the Barcelona players to flip their lids.
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02-04-2010 12:32 PM #3
Great photo too, look at the crowd in the background
2. Hibernian 3-2 Barcelona (February 1961)
At the start of 1961 Barcelona were, in playground terms, the best team in Europe, having become the first club to knock Real Madrid out of their European Cup in November 1960. (Barça striker Luis Suarez was the star of that tie, unless you're of a mind to blame the English referee Reg Leafe, who, in the second leg, disallowed three legitimate Real goals. But that's a wild accusation for another day.) So confident of their abilities were the Catalans, the reigning champions of Spain, that they were also competing in the Fairs Cup in the same season – and were strongly fancied to win both European prizes.
Hibernian, however, were nobody's idea of a great side. The 1950s heyday of the Famous Five were long gone, with the team languishing in the lower reaches of the Scottish First Division. Hibs had been invited into the Fairs Cup partly thanks to their efforts in reaching the 1956 European Cup semi-finals, but mainly because the Edinburgh Festival was technically classified as a trade fair. But they could boast Joe Baker – later of Torino, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest fame – and the striker would prove a thorn in Barça's side when the two teams met in the quarter-final.
Baker scored twice in a ridiculous match at Camp Nou, Hibs leading 4-2 with six minutes to go before Sandor Kocsis upstaged him by completing his hat-trick and Evaristo equalised in the game's final throes. The return at Easter Road would be even more memorable. Baker started the scoreboard ticking over for the second time, but Eulogio Martínez and Kocsis turned the tie in Barça's favour before the break.
This time it was Hibs' turn to hit back. Tommy Preston equalised with 16 minutes remaining, and with five minutes to go, Hibs having two big penalty shouts turned down already, a spot kick was finally awarded when John McLeod was pulled down in the box.
Barcelona clearly wanted the Fairs Cup desperately, because the decision caused them to lose the place totally. The game was held up for seven minutes as their players set about first the referee, then the policemen who rushed on to save the official. When order was eventually restored, Bobby Kinloch slotted away a famous winner. Still aggrieved, Barcelona chased the referee down the tunnel after the match and into his room; Spanish stud marks could still be seen on the door in the early 2000s, until it made way for a new stand. Benfica later broke Barça hearts in the European Cup final, too, but there were no similar tantrums there. This was the defeat that really seemed to hurt.
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02-04-2010 12:43 PM #4
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This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"You opened the box....and your soul belongs to me...."
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02-04-2010 12:52 PM #5
I was taken to my first game at ER in Dec. 1960, and was lucky enough to be taken to this game.
God bless you Grandad
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02-04-2010 01:00 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That is correct! Saw it with my own eyes
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02-04-2010 01:13 PM #7
I did not know about the stud marks! I've just been busy posting a new thread in error about the Guardian piece. I'll have to delete it now. How humiliating!
Some good stories on there. Lazio's Latin loonies! I think Hibs need some of that spirit!
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02-04-2010 01:14 PM #8
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Technically I was there too, albeit 5 months before I was born ! Dont remember much, I had what would be called a restricted view.
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02-04-2010 04:11 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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02-04-2010 09:57 PM #10
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Remember that night like it was yesterday. My Dad was friendly with johnney Mcleod and he got us two tickets in the south stand. What a crowd that night over 65000, i those were the day's.
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02-04-2010 10:19 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We didnae have a south stand at that time - just a big yawning space known as the Dunbar End - although to be fair I think the auld stand was divided into North, South and Centre for ticketing purposes.
Think the "official" attendance was somewhere around 49,000Last edited by CapitalHibs; 02-04-2010 at 10:30 PM.
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02-04-2010 10:43 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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02-04-2010 10:55 PM #13
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mention should have been made to the fact the joe baker - hibs #9 - terrified the life out of Barca in the first leg.
a famous tactic of hibs was to move baker into a different numbered shirt for the return leg at ER (in the days before tv faces were easily mistaken/forgotten/hard to remember) and play someone else at #9 who was promptly man marked leaving baker free to roam and destroy them for a second time!!!!
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02-04-2010 11:15 PM #14
Hibernian FC was a real force in Europe then.
Another 'first' that some may not know of is the Hibs were the first British team to defeat an Italian side over two legs in European competition.
Napoli 4 Hibs 1
Hibs 5 Napoli 0This is how it feels
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02-04-2010 11:20 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You'll have me greeting in a minute. Probably the best and most memorable match I have ever attended and to put 5 goals past Dino Zoff was quite an achievement.
I remember hearing the news that we had suffered a 4-1 loss in Italy (It was probably the morning after the match - no internet or Sky in those days and we were in the days of when the telly "stopped" at 11pm) and thinking that's it for another year. The rest is history.
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02-04-2010 11:25 PM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It was magical that night. A light mist hanging over the playing surface and Hibs going at them from the off, Bobby Duncan getting the opener with a shot from the foot of St Clair AvenueThis is how it feels
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02-04-2010 11:38 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Baker wore 8 and Kinloch wore 9. Despite being heavily marked, Kinloch scored the first goal and up went Baker's name on the electronic scoreboard. Kinloch then attracted even more markers, allowing Baker to get the next two.
In the modern game Hibs would have qualified for the final on away goals, but at that time we had to replay and agreed to play in Rome a month after our season had ended. Roma won 6-0.
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03-04-2010 07:53 AM #19
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I love when the 'auld' hibbies get together, you guys all seem to have fantastic memories of events that occurred a million years ago - always fascinating reads as well unlike the usual crap that gets spouted on here
Mon the auld team"You opened the box....and your soul belongs to me...."
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03-04-2010 07:58 AM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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03-04-2010 08:14 AM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'll be spouting the same tosh to my bairns when im 65
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03-04-2010 08:33 AM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"You youngsters know nowt"
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03-04-2010 01:39 PM #23
Was at both games mentioned , in the Dunbar end for Barca and the old North Stand for the Napoli game .Was also in the Dunbar end for the Real Madrid friendly. Interestingly was recently at the Nou Camp and there is no mention of the Fairs Cup of 1960/61 in their museum but the European Cup is remembered for that year and all their subsequent and previous European competitions . Strange thing that is it not. But back to the wonderful European nights and many many there were right up to and including the Athens game when I spent my one and only match bouncing in the recently demolished East.
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03-04-2010 07:23 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Next you'll be telling me I wasn't at the Hibs v The Rest of the World game when the Hibees humbled the likes of Puskas, Gento, Pele etc. What a team we had back then ........
This is how it feels
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03-04-2010 07:44 PM #25
Sfunny Iam in a bar now in Barca warching them hammer A madrid. I was at that game too in 61. For whatever reason I prefer Real now.
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03-04-2010 08:25 PM #27
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I've met a few Barce fans over the years and i always tell them about this game (i wasn't even born). While they know nothing about it they are intrigued to hear about it. They're very passionate about their club and any bit of history is of interest to them.
Incredible really. As mentioned in above post, the photo is quite striking, just look at the crowd....
We really did beat Barcelona.
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