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08-07-2018 12:39 PM #2
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R.I.P.Alan Gilzean.Hibs fan when young i believe.
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08-07-2018 12:48 PM #6
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Superb in the air, especially at laying the ball off for fellow attackers.
No slouch on the ground either and part of a very good Dundee team.
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08-07-2018 12:59 PM #7
Sorry to hear this.
I saw the big man scoring 3 or 4 against us at ER in the early sixties and then for Spurs on my only ever visit to the Lane in 1967. Some centre forward.
R.I.P big man.
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08-07-2018 01:10 PM #8
Wonderful player. As a young lad I went to see Scotland Engerlund at Hampden in 1964. We arrived just before k.o. & with a crowd of 133,000 we couldn't get on to the terraces. Just then the police opened up the staircases & a big Glasow polis escorted us right down to the front where I had a great view of Gilly scoring the only goal of the game. The book The Glory Game, published in the 60s gives a fascinating insight into football at that time & strongly features Gilly.
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08-07-2018 01:11 PM #9
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Sad news. I mind reading a book a couple of years ago about Gilzean. Very modest and shunned the limelight.
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08-07-2018 01:38 PM #10
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Anyway, RIP, a great player for club and country.
Eh mind o' Gillie.Last edited by Chic Murray; 09-07-2018 at 12:03 PM.
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08-07-2018 04:52 PM #11
That is sad to hear. I read about him being ill a few months ago. Remember him in the latter stages of his career at Spurs when I was a young lad. RIP.
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08-07-2018 05:08 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Gordon Smith's last game at ER.Last edited by lapsedhibee; 08-07-2018 at 05:45 PM.
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08-07-2018 06:29 PM #14
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The word I used to describe him was elegant. Never a biff bash player like Hateley or Lofthouse but could he heid the ba'? you better believe it.
The only one who came close was our very own sadly departed Alan Gordon.
RIP
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08-07-2018 06:38 PM #15
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08-07-2018 06:41 PM #16
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Dropped the ball on Gilzean's head with monotonous regularity.
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08-07-2018 07:47 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Just ordered that on eBay, B - thanks for the recommendation. Gilzean was a wonderful player - RIPThis is how it feels
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08-07-2018 08:12 PM #18
Wow what a player he was. Law and Gilzean up front for Scotland. We can only dream.
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08-07-2018 11:20 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
RIP.
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08-07-2018 11:57 PM #20
Gilzean played in my first ever Hibs game at Easter Road (Oct 1962) in a Dundee team that included Ian Ure and some “past it has been” called Gordon Smith on the right wing.
Whilst my recollections of that day are sketchy, his time at Spurs and of course for Scotland, showed he was a classy centre forward with tremendous ariel ability. Closest Hibs player I’d compare him to was another AG - Alan Gordon. Elegant players both.
Sad loss. RIP
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09-07-2018 02:18 AM #21
Bless his loved one's at this time.
There goes another name from my childhood.
A quality player for Spurs without question.
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09-07-2018 02:59 AM #22
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When he scored the fourth, it resulted in it being one of the few times I left ER before the final whistle.
Superb player.
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09-07-2018 11:00 AM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-07-2018 11:16 AM #24
Such an elegant and graceful player in his day, worshipped at Dundee and Spurs, saw a documentary on him not long ago, his goal against the deluded Auld Enemy at Hampden when we beat that thanks to his goal had me in tears...RIP big man.
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09-07-2018 05:18 PM #26
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That's right. He was brought up in the Angus area I think, but like many across Scotland at the time idolised Gordon Smith. From what I recall of an interview I read with him he was playing a few trial matches with Dundee but the club hadn't yet registered him and Hibs offered him a deal. He was desperate to go to Easter Road but his mother apparently told him he'd given his word to Dundee and that he mustn't go back on it.
I read in his obituary he scored 165 goals in just 185 games for Dundee. That is a truly sensational scoring rate.
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