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13-09-2018 09:10 AM #1News Reader
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Official Site: PAT STANTON | FIVE MEMORIES
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13-09-2018 09:29 AM #2@hibs.net private member
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He is the man that the word "Legend" was invented for!
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13-09-2018 09:39 AM #3@hibs.net private member
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Lovely touch from Hibs.
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13-09-2018 10:10 AM #4First Team Breakthrough
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Our greatest ever player, my boyhood hero.
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13-09-2018 10:22 AM #5@hibs.net private member
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Says it all for me.
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13-09-2018 10:47 AM #6Testimonial Due
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Pat is 74 today. Hopefully the club could honour him in some way whilst he is alive so he can see it eg name a stand after him, a statue, a hospitality suite, or some other suggestion???
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13-09-2018 11:18 AM #7@hibs.net private member
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A legend until he signed for Celtic.....
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13-09-2018 02:45 PM #8'S' Form
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My favourite footballer ever. A class player.
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13-09-2018 03:27 PM #9@hibs.net private member
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Legend, no more no less. My hero.
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13-09-2018 04:16 PM #10Testimonial Due
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The Wee Lad Fae Niddrie
I had the honour of writing a wee ditty for Pat's 70th Birthday Party which to my embarassment Grant Stott read out to all present! Hope you like it.
The wee lad fae Niddry”
In the streets of Niddry a wee lad kicked a baw
Nae goalposts in them days, all he had was a wa’
He’d go oot in the morning, ball under his arm,
Wi Jumpers for goalposts, he could do nae harm.
He kicked and he passed from pillar to post
So quickly he ran just like a ghost
No one got near him as he played his tricks
A wee shimmy here, with a few fancy kicks
At school he played in the Holy Cross team
He was as good a player then, as they’d ever seen.
On leaving school he signed as a schoolboy, for Hibs
His dad guided him wisely, to wear one of those bibs.
They farmed him out to Bonnyrigg, to mature and to refine
The skills he was showing were simply Devine.
A long lanky school boy, he became a legend in his day
Everyone wanted to play the Pat Stanton way.
As one of Turnbull’s tornadoes he rose to the fore
No one could have given that Hibs team more.
His pride in the jersey in which he played
Shone through with every pass, that he made
Sublime were his movements as he hovered over the field
Goals he would score and results, they were sealed
They nicknamed him “GOD” of which he was true
I don’t think God minded ‘cause he didn’t sue!
He led with dignity and with grace
his head held high, whilst cutting the chase.
The punters they loved him this man they called “God”
But he always felt this was a fraud.
I’m a wee lad fae Niddrie he’d say in reply
Why do the fans hold me so high?
You gave your all Pat, for that jersey of green
You are the best footballer, they’d ever seen
You’re our king and our hero all made in one
You’re the sunshine on Leith, an all season sun.
Thank you Pat Stanton, the wee lad, with the baw
You gave us excitement and magic, some never saw.
So let’s take the time to thank you right now
Patrick Gordon Stanton please take a bow!
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14-09-2018 06:58 AM #11@hibs.net private member
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Great wee poem Stanton’s Angel 👍 brilliant, thanks for sharing
"We've also been unsure about what has happened to the receipts of the players who have been sold."
George Foulkes BBC website 20/3/08
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14-09-2018 06:36 PM #12Testimonial Due
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Originally Posted by ano hibby
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Well thank you my friend.
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15-09-2018 12:27 AM #13First Team Regular
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I’ve lived in Niddrie for years and I can tell you that all Niddrons of a certain age, no matter their team, idolise Pat here, he is one of his areas greatest success stories, as a Hibby and long term Niddron I feel the same, legend is an overused word but not for Pat
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