I was once a Dundee fan, it was May 3rd 1986.
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12-09-2018 08:20 PM #32
I supported Rangers, Hearts and various others for several years but no one spoke Romany and they wouldn't buy the pegs I'd made so I became a Hibby and have been ever since
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12-09-2018 08:25 PM #34
Hearts. Followed them religiously as a kid. But after they won the league and cup double in ‘86, then with the world cup double star signings, players like Andy Driver going for £15M and 400k fans coming out of the woodwork, I felt I needed to give someone less famous my support, an underdog, you know? because supporting all those medal winning heroes like Levein and Mackay felt a bit too much like glory hunting. So that was that.
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12-09-2018 09:31 PM #35This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-09-2018 10:19 PM #36
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Born in Edinburgh, lived in Inverness between ages of 8 and 18. Always supported Hibs, but from about 10 until leaving secondary school had a season ticket for the Caley part of Caley Thistle. Kids season ticket cost five shillings in old money(25p now)!
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13-09-2018 01:23 AM #39
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As Lawrie Reilly said...’I was born a Hibee...........”
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13-09-2018 03:32 AM #40
My dad moved from England to the Borders when he was about 5, and randomly chose Hibs. When he met my mum, it was a big coincidence in that part of the world as her side of the family also supported Hibs (except my uncle who was a Jambo, and an ******** for many other reasons). So as fate would have it, I was destined to be a Hibee too.
My dad had a decent trial with Dundee United when they were challenging in Europe, so it could have been a lot different. Football wasn’t as lucrative as it is now.
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13-09-2018 06:02 AM #42
Family were all Hibs fans, so i had no real other options and was taken to Easter Road at a very early age. All my mates were Hibs fans too, living on Easter Road i cant remember knowing anyone other than Hibs supporting mates except one who was a Celtic fan?
Its been painful at times.
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13-09-2018 06:07 AM #43
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13-09-2018 06:27 AM #44
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My dad's a Hibby, his dad was a Hibby...there was no other option.
Held it against the bugger until 21/05/2016."Play for the name on the front of the jersey and the supporters will remember the name on the back"
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13-09-2018 07:55 AM #45This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-09-2018 08:03 AM #46This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteLess talk, more gifs. 21.05.16
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13-09-2018 08:03 AM #47
grew up "supporting" rangers, i say support but had never even seen ibrox never mind seen them play, a mate asked me to go to a Hibs game up in aberdeen and that was me hooked, dunno how as we drew 0-0, 24 years now
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13-09-2018 08:16 AM #48
Back in the early fifties, my dad was a massive Hibby, but as a trawlerman, he missed most matches. My uncle, a huge Jambo fan, used to take me and my cousin to Tynie on Saturdays. I suppose I became a Jambo by default. When my dad got a shore job, he got me on the straight and narrow and I’ve supported Hibs since around 1954.
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13-09-2018 08:28 AM #49
Always been a Hibby, but I have a Rangers Fan to thank for my Hibs allegiance. I think I was about 9 and one of the lads in my class (who was a rangers fan and didn't like me) refused to pair with me in some playground game because he said I was "A Caflick and a Hibs fan". I wasn't a catholic, I actually went to Leith Methodist Church down the same lane as Viccy Baths every Sunday (my mum dragging me along !) but I didn't like him and if being a Hibs fan meant I was the opposite of him, then that was fine. My Dad didn't give a toss about football and refused to take me to games, but I eventually persuaded my Granda to take me when I was 11 (1979).
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13-09-2018 08:56 AM #50
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13-09-2018 09:07 AM #51
Sadly I was a Celtic fan as a young kid. It should never have happened. I went to an RC primary school a stone's throw from Easter Road, where all my mates, and almost the entire school were Hibs fans. My Dad was a Hibs fan as well, however my sister who was quite a bit older than me, was a Celtic supporter and she brainwashed me into following Celtic until I was ~7 or 8.
I saw the light after going to a Hibs v Celtic game at Easter Road with my Dad in the 70s. I had my Celtic colours on and he had Hibs colours on but we stood together as you could in those days. Celtic won 3-0 with Dixie Deans scoring a hat trick and I could see my Dad was gutted with the result. I went away from that game thinking, why the hell am I supporting Celtic? I proclaimed to everyone the next day I was a Hibee and have been staunch ever since, and have had a season ticket for 40 consecutive years now. The further good news is my sister started following Hibs soon after me and is also now a massive ever since as well.Last edited by The Harp Awakes; 13-09-2018 at 10:37 AM.
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13-09-2018 09:12 AM #52
My granny bought me a nice looking bible for xmas when I was 6. Nice note written in it, dated, and underneath in childlike handwriting is Hibs for the cup and a big drawing of what looks like the Scottish Cup.Knew we'd do it.
Never supported another team but Hibs started at least then for me.
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"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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13-09-2018 09:19 AM #53This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-09-2018 09:44 AM #54
My parents came from Saughton and Sighthill, so I could have potentially had a serious problem with my childhood. Fortunately although they had Jambo allegiance, they were not rabid. However when I was about 3, we moved to Windsor Street and I could here the roar from ER when Hibs scored. I therefore grew up desperate to go and see the Hibs and couldn't wait to go and see them. My Dad wouldn't take me and it was my Uncle Billy from Clydebank that finally took me along in about 1969 to watch Hibs v Clyde. The feeling I had climbing to the top of the old East Terrace at that age still makes the hairs stand up on my arms. Then reaching the top and seeing whole ground before me.... my gob was smacked and I will never forget that moment. It was a love story from then on.
I have lived all over England since then and always "supported" the local team Newcastle (Div 2), Brighton (Goldstone), Southampton (Dell), but sadly not impressed with the choices in Essex. First and only football love will always be Hibs.
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13-09-2018 09:53 AM #55
Never supported anyone else but my dad is a Rangers fan so like to see them do well except against us of course
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13-09-2018 10:02 AM #56
Born in Glasgow and lived there till I was 6, never went to any matches but I remember describing myself as a Partick Thistle and St Mirren fan. Quite proud of that as even at that early age, I was having none of the Old Firm rubbish!
Moved through to East Lothian in 1981, and my Dad decided to follow Hibs. First game was Hibs v Thistle (1-1 draw if I remember correctly) and I was most definitely supporting the men in green. The rest is history...
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13-09-2018 10:05 AM #57This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
None of my family were into football so its just as well we didn't stay in Kirkliston, I'm pretty sure it must be Hearts territory and who knows what horrors might have happened
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13-09-2018 10:16 AM #58This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Although to be fair, I've had a couple of West Coast Rangers fans come to Hibs games with me, and they chose to follow Hibs as their team through here whilst they lived in Edinburgh.
An unusual pair of teams to follow, not easily compatible.
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13-09-2018 02:06 PM #59
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Was at st ninians lochend in the late 60s early 70s everybodyin the whole school apart from 1 Celtic fan was a Hibby ... so no option really
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13-09-2018 02:33 PM #60
I've always supported Hibs. I did go to see Meadowbank Thistle when they started and we weren't at home but that was because of the novelty of a 'new' team.
That and I only lived along road from Meadowbank stadium.
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