Info needed about Hibs Leicester City friendly

***worcesterhibby*** · 02-03-2017 12:33 PM

Hibs played Leicester City in a friendly on December 10th 1979. I believe we won 3-2 and George Best played..anyone got any other information about the match ? scorers, attendance etc. ?

***blackpoolhibs*** · 02-03-2017 12:40 PM

We went, its a bit hazy through time and the drink we consumed that trip. I always thought we won 2-0 and Best never played?

***worcesterhibby*** · 02-03-2017 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

We went, its a bit hazy through time and the drink we consumed that trip. I always thought we won 2-0 and Best never played?

That was the away tie in January 1980..we played them at home a month before.

***blackpoolhibs*** · 02-03-2017 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by worcesterhibby

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

That was the away tie in January 1980..we played them at home a month before.

Ah, then i cant help you, i dont remember anything about the home game at all?

**green with envy** · 02-03-2017 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Ah, then i cant help you, i dont remember anything about the home game at all?

I was at both but all i remember from the home game was coming out of Macs Bar (Mash Tun) Easter Road and a pagger with around 20 rangers fans who thought it was good to come through in support of their ex manager Jock Wallace.. I also a remember a few pint glasses getting thrown in their direction with one of them copping it bang on the forehead.

The game down in Filbert Street should never have went ahead due to the state of the icy pitch. Hibs won 2-0, i'm sure Jackie Mac scored the first very early and Best made his first start after his infamous disappearance.

***worcesterhibby*** · 02-03-2017 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by green with envy

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I was at both but all i remember from the home game was coming out of Macs Bar (Mash Tun) Easter Road and a pagger with around 20 rangers fans who thought it was good to come through in support of their ex manager Jock Wallace.. I also a remember a few pint glasses getting thrown in their direction with one of them copping it bang on the forehead.

The game down in Filbert Street should never have went ahead due to the state of the icy pitch. Hibs won 2-0, i'm sure Jackie Mac scored the first very early and Best made his first start after his infamous disappearance.

well that adds a bit of background colour at least !

***blackpoolhibs*** · 02-03-2017 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by green with envy

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I was at both but all i remember from the home game was coming out of Macs Bar (Mash Tun) Easter Road and a pagger with around 20 rangers fans who thought it was good to come through in support of their ex manager Jock Wallace.. I also a remember a few pint glasses getting thrown in their direction with one of them copping it bang on the forehead.

The game down in Filbert Street should never have went ahead due to the state of the icy pitch. Hibs won 2-0, i'm sure Jackie Mac scored the first very early and Best made his first start after his infamous disappearance.

Did Best play at filbert street, as i cant remember him playing?

***Kato*** · 02-03-2017 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Did Best play at filbert street, as i cant remember him playing?

He did.

***blackpoolhibs*** · 02-03-2017 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by Kato

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

He did.

He did,

we'd had a long day, pretty sure our bus left the Hibs club at closing time the night before, and the rest is a blur.

***hibeg*** · 02-03-2017 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

He did,

we'd had a long day, pretty sure our bus left the Hibs club at closing time the night before, and the rest is a blur.

Edinburgh West bus by any chance ?

**green with envy** · 02-03-2017 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

He did,

we'd had a long day, pretty sure our bus left the Hibs club at closing time the night before, and the rest is a blur.

Our bus did the same. Liberton Hibs.

I remember the bus dropping us outside the ground at around 2pm, there was a door open into the players lounge and no one inside. All the bottles of spirits didn't last long that were attached to the optics and programmes were nicked before they even went on sale. Two good Hibbies who had never been in trouble in their puff with Mick McGhee being one of them got a lie down for having stolen possession on them, yes the programmes.

***Hiber-nation*** · 02-03-2017 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by green with envy

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I was at both but all i remember from the home game was coming out of Macs Bar (Mash Tun) Easter Road and a pagger with around 20 rangers fans who thought it was good to come through in support of their ex manager Jock Wallace.. I also a remember a few pint glasses getting thrown in their direction with one of them copping it bang on the forehead.

The game down in Filbert Street should never have went ahead due to the state of the icy pitch. Hibs won 2-0, i'm sure Jackie Mac scored the first very early and Best made his first start after his infamous disappearance.

I wonder if I have a programme for this....anyway I think there were more huns than that, my mate got a kicking off some of them outside the Nip. Leicester had a player called Derek Strickland who they signed from rangers and that seemed to add to the appeal for the orcs as well as Wallace.

**green with envy** · 02-03-2017 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by Hiber-nation

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I wonder if I have a programme for this....anyway I think there were more huns than that, my mate got a kicking off some of them outside the Nip. Leicester had a player called Derek Strickland who they signed from rangers and that seemed to add to the appeal for the orcs as well as Wallace.

There may have been but it was almost 40 years ago. Strickland was a forward if my memory is correct.

Also from memory i'm sure Bobby Smith played in both games for Leicester.

***blackpoolhibs*** · 02-03-2017 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by hibeg

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Edinburgh West bus by any chance ?

***Ray_*** · 02-03-2017 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by worcesterhibby

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Hibs played Leicester City in a friendly on December 10th 1979. I believe we won 3-2 and George Best played..anyone got any other information about the match ? scorers, attendance etc. ?

Played on a freezing December Monday night, George Best set up all three of Ally McLeod's goals. Hibs had the Yugoslavian keeper on trial and Bobby Smith played for Leicester.

***stantonhibby*** · 02-03-2017 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Ray-in-ireland

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Played on a freezing December Monday night, George Best set up all three of Ally McLeod's goals. Hibs had the Yugoslavian keeper on trial and Bobby Smith played for Leicester.

Nizetic was the goalies name I think

***scoopyboy*** · 02-03-2017 05:20 PM

Were the games not agreed as part of the deal that took Bobby Smith to Leicester?

***stantonhibby*** · 02-03-2017 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by scoopyboy

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Were the games not agreed as part of the deal that took Bobby Smith to Leicester?

That rings a bell

**Topographic Hibby** · 02-03-2017 08:23 PM

A flange of West of Scotland FC Orcs came swaggering into the away section in the old stand lower enclosure singing about "Wan Joak Waallis" at the home game. Or should the collective noun for them be a Lodge of Orcs?

**Purple & Green** · 02-03-2017 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by worcesterhibby

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Hibs played Leicester City in a friendly on December 10th 1979. I believe we won 3-2 and George Best played..anyone got any other information about the match ? scorers, attendance etc. ?

Best played, hibs won 3-2, Ally McLeod scored a hat trick, Larry May and Derek Strickland scored for Leicester.

***Billy Whizz*** · 02-03-2017 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by Purple & Green

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Best played, hibs won 3-2, Ally McLeod scored a hat trick, Larry May and Derek Strickland scored for Leicester.

A friend sent me these

***worcesterhibby*** · 02-03-2017 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ray-in-ireland

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Played on a freezing December Monday night, George Best set up all three of Ally McLeod's goals. Hibs had the Yugoslavian keeper on trial and Bobby Smith played for Leicester.

Thanks Ray, that's very helpful

***worcesterhibby*** · 02-03-2017 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by Purple & Green

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Best played, hibs won 3-2, Ally McLeod scored a hat trick, Larry May and Derek Strickland scored for Leicester.

Cheers great info

***worcesterhibby*** · 02-03-2017 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by Billy Whizz

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

A friend sent me these

**IberianHibernian** · 02-03-2017 09:29 PM

I was at both Leicester games . Tiny crowds at both with about 5000 ( including about 100 Huns in old South Enclosure ) at home game and about 2000 at away game including a couple of hundred Hibs fans at one end of whom about 20 were lifted at half time for supposed programme theft etc. . In home game we had Yugoslav goalie on trial / loan - he`d played in a 4 - 0 defeat in a friendly at Killie 2 days before . Can`t remember why we had no league game that weekend . Surprised to read that Best played as I thought debut at Paisley ( even with Best we lost so maybe yesterday wasn`t so bad ) and home debut v Jags had been just before Christmas . Pretty sure away game was one of the ones where he was supposed to have played but didn`t make it . We won 2 - 0 in Leicester ( our only away win except maybe bounce matches that season which should maybe be remembered when people consider Turnbull`s management record ) with Jackie Mcnamara scoring his first goal for Hibs ( remember him scoring at Ibrox in a SC tie a year or two after but he didn`t score many goals ). Away game was played on a pitch with thick layer of snow at a time when Leicester were famous for the balloon they put up to protect the pitch but didn`t use for that match . I went by train and remember Hibs team were on same train ( from Birmingham ) on way back but with sleeper beds while fans had seats .

**Bill Milne** · 03-03-2017 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by IberianHibernian

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I was at both Leicester games . Tiny crowds at both with about 5000 ( including about 100 Huns in old South Enclosure ) at home game and about 2000 at away game including a couple of hundred Hibs fans at one end of whom about 20 were lifted at half time for supposed programme theft etc. . In home game we had Yugoslav goalie on trial / loan - he`d played in a 4 - 0 defeat in a friendly at Killie 2 days before . Can`t remember why we had no league game that weekend . Surprised to read that Best played as I thought debut at Paisley ( even with Best we lost so maybe yesterday wasn`t so bad ) and home debut v Jags had been just before Christmas . Pretty sure away game was one of the ones where he was supposed to have played but didn`t make it . We won 2 - 0 in Leicester ( our only away win except maybe bounce matches that season which should maybe be remembered when people consider Turnbull`s management record ) with Jackie Mcnamara scoring his first goal for Hibs ( remember him scoring at Ibrox in a SC tie a year or two after but he didn`t score many goals ). Away game was played on a pitch with thick layer of snow at a time when Leicester were famous for the balloon they put up to protect the pitch but didn`t use for that match . I went by train and remember Hibs team were on same train ( from Birmingham ) on way back but with sleeper beds while fans had seats .

IIRC Tony Higgins scored the other goal in the away game!!

**~~G B Young~~** · 03-03-2017 09:42 AM

According to the late Stewart Brown's book 'Hibernian Greats' Best made his debut for Hibs at St Mirren before his home debut a week later v Partick Thistle.

Brown writes: 'The Irishman then turned out in friendlies against Kilmarnock and Leicester but failed to appear for the next league game against Morton at Greenock. Tom Hart provided a cover story but was the start of his tantrums? Evidently not, for he shared in a 2-1 success over Rangers in the pre-Christmas match in which Tony Higgins and Colin Campbell scored, and he contributed a memorable goal in the drawn game with Celtic a fortnight later as 22,000 looked on.'

**green with envy** · 03-03-2017 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by IberianHibernian

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I was at both Leicester games . Tiny crowds at both with about 5000 ( including about 100 Huns in old South Enclosure ) at home game and about 2000 at away game including a couple of hundred Hibs fans at one end of whom about 20 were lifted at half time for supposed programme theft etc. . In home game we had Yugoslav goalie on trial / loan - he`d played in a 4 - 0 defeat in a friendly at Killie 2 days before . Can`t remember why we had no league game that weekend . Surprised to read that Best played as I thought debut at Paisley ( even with Best we lost so maybe yesterday wasn`t so bad ) and home debut v Jags had been just before Christmas . Pretty sure away game was one of the ones where he was supposed to have played but didn`t make it . We won 2 - 0 in Leicester ( our only away win except maybe bounce matches that season which should maybe be remembered when people consider Turnbull`s management record ) with Jackie Mcnamara scoring his first goal for Hibs ( remember him scoring at Ibrox in a SC tie a year or two after but he didn`t score many goals ). Away game was played on a pitch with thick layer of snow at a time when Leicester were famous for the balloon they put up to protect the pitch but didn`t use for that match . I went by train and remember Hibs team were on same train ( from Birmingham ) on way back but with sleeper beds while fans had seats .

Spot on with all of that but RE: the balloon it was up when we got to the ground as said earlier at around 2pm. This was and the last time that i had seen anything like it. Also remember Best playing as he wasn't expected to.

***worcesterhibby*** · 06-03-2017 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by green with envy

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Spot on with all of that but RE: the balloon it was up when we got to the ground as said earlier at around 2pm. This was and the last time that i had seen anything like it. Also remember Best playing as he wasn't expected to.

The balloon thing is fascinating..never heard about it before..here is a picture of it in action