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PatHead
27-10-2015, 01:42 PM
Hibs beat Dunfermline to win the league club. The team that wouldn't die.

The Hibs crowd was massive that day and many didn't get in as it wasn't all ticket.

http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/tv/freeview

BSEJVT
27-10-2015, 01:59 PM
Hibs beat Dunfermline to win the league club. The team that wouldn't die.

The Hibs crowd was massive that day and many didn't get in as it wasn't all ticket.

http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/tv/freeview

Great day and great night out!

iwasthere1972
27-10-2015, 02:12 PM
I was in Guernsey at the time and watched it on Sky TV. I was panicking when they were still showing some Italian match when we had kicked off and IIRC they showed it with about an hour delay. Didn't really matter as there was no internet/Facebook at the time so no danger of anybody telling me the score.

Great day.

Eyrie
27-10-2015, 02:13 PM
More than half a lifetime ago, but still one of my best birthdays.

Hampden for the game, then back to Edinburgh to see the cup being paraded and finished off with a Wolfsbane gig.

Baldy Foghorn
27-10-2015, 02:24 PM
Hibs beat Dunfermline to win the league club. The team that wouldn't die.

The Hibs crowd was massive that day and many didn't get in as it wasn't all ticket.

http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/tv/freeview

Great day to end a turbulent spell. Ended up in the Bull & Bush.....

BroxburnHibee
27-10-2015, 02:29 PM
Great day to end a turbulent spell. Ended up in the Bull & Bush.....

I ended up in the boozer at the bottom of Lochend Road (Marlborough???) with my Faither. Absolutely no idea how I got home that night :greengrin

Baldy Foghorn
27-10-2015, 02:32 PM
I ended up in the boozer at the bottom of Lochend Road (Marlborough???) with my Faither. Absolutely no idea how I got home that night :greengrin

Not sure of that boozer, but there must have been thousand's with no idea how they got home.....The glory days:greengrin

bod
27-10-2015, 02:33 PM
still remember the whole day,ended up with a lock in at the Chesser Inn

Baldy Foghorn
27-10-2015, 02:36 PM
still remember the whole day,ended up with a lock in at the Chesser Inn

You remember getting home? Poor show:cb

KeithTheHibby
27-10-2015, 02:39 PM
The final was a bit of an anti-climax as we were always expected to beat the Pars who were honking. Still we had a job to do and the second half was brilliant as we totally stepped up a gear.

The final was great, the semi was even better strange enough.

lucky
27-10-2015, 02:56 PM
Fantastic day probably my best day as a Hibee. We ended up in Fingers. I bought a copy of every paper the following day, even the Sun. Then into the Coopers Rest on the Monday. I can remember the day like it was yesterday. It was a cup final which was PATG. We ended up in the family section but had to buy tickets from a booth. Thousands of Hibs fans were locked out that day. Great memories, the crowd opposite the Balmoral was mental.

Diclonius
27-10-2015, 03:14 PM
Will never forget that day, I was four months old.

Wait, maybe I did forget it. ****.

Albanian Hibs
27-10-2015, 03:21 PM
11 years old and it was my first cup final. Will never forget it.

erin go bragh
27-10-2015, 04:05 PM
Hibs beat Dunfermline to win the league club. The team that wouldn't die.

The Hibs crowd was massive that day and many didn't get in as it wasn't all ticket.

http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/tv/freeview
Hadn't missed a game for years but got locked out . 👺👺👺👺👺

GGTTH

lyonhibs
27-10-2015, 04:38 PM
Saw a clip today that gave the attendance as a touch over 40k but the crowd from the footage looked comfortably bigger than that!

Craig_HFC
27-10-2015, 04:45 PM
I was 7 months old.

There's a picture somewhere in my parent's house of me sitting in the Cup.

Thinking about it, I wouldn't mind a copy of it for my own house actually...

BroxburnHibee
27-10-2015, 04:49 PM
Saw a clip today that gave the attendance as a touch over 40k but the crowd from the footage looked comfortably bigger than that!

Seem to remember they never really knew.

Amazing that it was cash gates that day which definitely added to the crowd. Makes it laughable when you consider the discussion on the cash gate at Falkirk last week.

Mr White
27-10-2015, 04:56 PM
I'll never forget keith wright's goal. Even though I've seen it hundreds of times on tv since I can still clearly see him slotting it home from the angle I saw it live. Near brings a tear to my eye thinking about it :greengrin

Chip shop Joe
27-10-2015, 05:25 PM
The final was a bit of an anti-climax as we were always expected to beat the Pars who were honking. Still we had a job to do and the second half was brilliant as we totally stepped up a gear.

The final was great, the semi was even better strange enough.

Yeah was thinking the same. The semi was absolutely brilliant and Goram flapping for Keefs goal made it all the sweeter[emoji1] Amazing night!

I do remember in the final though my 11 year old self reassuring my dad that Tommy McIntyre had never missed a penalty and that he would score easily.

He turned to me and said "son when you have been watching Hibs as long as I have then you will know nothing is a certainty". Ain't that the truth [emoji1]

HIBERNIAN-0762
27-10-2015, 05:26 PM
We all went to Shades after the parade and don't think there was a drunker man in Leith that night :greengrin

Got up the next day and did it all over again :agree:

banarc7062
27-10-2015, 06:05 PM
Is that no the game where the Players through Murdo McLeod had placed a bet early in the competition that they would lift the Cup?:wink:

Billy McKirdy
27-10-2015, 06:06 PM
I seem to remember that a section of the east terrace was blocked off which made the lock out even more confusing :confused:

Mcpakeisgod
27-10-2015, 06:08 PM
And what a day , I was born merely hours after, my old man was reeking when I was born so the story goes

Tom Hart RIP
27-10-2015, 06:10 PM
A week or so before the final Hibs got a penalty and TM scored. I think it was his first for the club. The bookies didn't realise that he was our penalty taker and had him at 22/1 to score first. I had £2.00 on him which made it even sweeter.

Tom Hart RIP
27-10-2015, 06:12 PM
Forgot it was Davie Moyes that played Keith onside for the second.
Didn't Billy Davies play for them as well and Andy Rhodes who is Jordan's dad.

O'Rourke3
27-10-2015, 06:14 PM
Great day and one of the strangest days of football in my life. My lift was my pals new girlfriend- we'd never met. She drove me through and back despite not meeting up with him. No mobile phone saturation in them days....

So no drinking before during or after the game. Stone cold sober and loving it.

Got to work the next morning early and one of the shift leaders was late coming in - came in screaming Hiiiiiiibbbbeeeees. Sat down with a coffee and driven home - still pished

Tom Hart RIP
27-10-2015, 06:16 PM
This was the first trophy that Walter Smith failed to win having won the first five of his tenure.
Read a story that after the final Andy Goram walked into training and said that if he had stayed at Hibs he would have a league cup winners medal. Mccoist said that if he had stayed with Hibs then all the Rangers players would have winners medals.

Keith_M
27-10-2015, 07:06 PM
I seem to remember that a section of the east terrace was blocked off which made the lock out even more confusing :confused:


I think that was the 85 Cup Final, against Aberdeen (the terracing was being rebuilt)


At the 91 Final, the whole terrace was open but large parts of the Main Stand were closed for safety reasons.

Col2
27-10-2015, 07:20 PM
In Portugal on lads holiday and last night was when we played semi. Live on Sky but terrible signal meant we couldn't watch it in hotel but sound came through ok so bizarrely listened and stared at fuzzy screen.

PatHead
27-10-2015, 07:25 PM
I think that was the 85 Cup Final, against Aberdeen (the terracing was being rebuilt)


At the 91 Final, the whole terrace was open but large parts of the Main Stand were closed for safety reasons.

Didn't have a chance to add my memories but had a great day.

I thought Dunfermline were given a complete end but only filled half it. The police and stewards wouldn't let Hibs supporters in the empty section hence loads were locked out.

danhibees1875
27-10-2015, 07:42 PM
Was 9 days old and had only been a member of Hibs Kids for 8 days... :greengrin

WoreTheGreen
27-10-2015, 08:26 PM
Great day great memories a pall took his wife her first game ever all got pies etc at half time told her to go upstairs back to kiosk and ask fo a brush & shovel for t he litter CRAiG HFC i ll try and find phot'os

StevieT
27-10-2015, 08:33 PM
My dad's mate died at Hampden that day. Will never forget celebrating the first goal and then looking over towards the enclosure area as the St Andrews ambulance guys tried to resuscitate someone on the track and thinking 'some poor sod has bought it'. It was only the next day that I found out who it was.

Roxyhibee
27-10-2015, 08:56 PM
Great, great day. Especially after the suffering we endured the year before.

We just packed the boot of the car with bottles of beer and opened 'the bar' parked in a big car park near Hampden a couple of hours before kick off. Sister was pregnant, so she drove.. Loads of other Hibbies doing the same and lots of socialising..

Huge Hibs support - one of my mates and a group of his pub pals left getting in a bit late and never even got in.!

Sang all the way home after I left the pub later that night..

Still got the pile of newspapers somewhere I bought the following day.

Remember seeing the incident with lots of ambulance staff in the old stand not long after kick off I think.? and hearing a Hibby had passed away at the game.. Very poignant day for his family today.

FitbaFolkKen
27-10-2015, 10:15 PM
I always remember Brian Hamilton hitting a shot which just about pulled the goals out the ground, they were shaking for ages afterwards.

I was 11 as well, good times!

Onceinawhile
27-10-2015, 10:34 PM
Was 4 years and a 4 months. I think I can remember everyone being annoyed at Rhodes giving out abuse at the penalty and the daft hats we had on, but I don't know if that's just learned from photos and the video.

I reckon I watched that video roughly 100 times. The bit where the boy in the Hibs bed duvet cover dreams of Keith scoring the semi header was how I felt every night!

Sherlock holmes in a Hibs scarf.

The team that wouldn't die.

How odd that a positive thread on the biggest game of our last quarter of a century merits such little attention.

hibby6270
27-10-2015, 10:40 PM
Great day!! Watched the highlights on Hibernian Retro Facebook page earlier and didn't realise just how dominant we were that day.

First time my wife came to game with me as well. Wouldn't say at the time she became an immediate football convert but think it showed her what, at the time, 30 years of being a Hibby meant to me. Now over 50 years as a Hibby, she goes to every home game with me as ST holders. That's worked out well.

The night in the Dockers Club was one I'm never forget and of course it was handily placed to pop out and see the open topped bus as it slowly made it's way along Duke Street.

You have to cherish these moments as a Hibby because they don't come along all that often.:wink:

Tom Hart RIP
27-10-2015, 10:54 PM
Got back, picked my young son up in South Queensferry and drove to maybury. About 50 fans there. Bus stopped and the players got onto open top bus. Mickey Weir was going mental singing Hibs songs.

Bishop Hibee
27-10-2015, 10:57 PM
Great day. Family ran a bus from Porty Town Hall. Massive crowds and mad terracing celebrations at both goals and full time. Martinfaeporty and a mate couldn't find the bus so had to get the train back. Our driver drove through Harthill to avoid the traffic on the M8!

Watched the cup paraded at the Balmoral, party time at ER then on to Robbies. Fans dancing on the bar. Bought every paper the next day which thankfully I had off from work. GGTTH!

HappyAsHellas
28-10-2015, 12:19 AM
Absolute hellish day all round. I was working in Saudi at the time but was trying to tune in to the world service for the sports news. After what seemed like an eternity listening to sitar bands and christ knows what else I finally found the beeb. They gave us every bit of sports news from around the globe - Mongolian tennis finals, cricket, even some basketball but nothing about the Hibs. In desperation I had to borrow a bicycle and pedal for miles to a public phone hut, wait my turn in the queue and call my Dad to get the result. A thoroughly enjoyable cycle ride back to the camp and a nice cup of tea to toast the Hibees.

matty_f
28-10-2015, 12:23 AM
One of my favourite experiences at Hampden, then coming back to Easter Road to greet the team. It was amazing. Wish we had more times like that.

Mibbes Aye
28-10-2015, 12:36 AM
I'm surely not the only one who was caught out here, but it was the weekend the clocks went back. A bunch of us had been out the night before 'pre-celebrating' and ended up crashing at somebody's flat.

Cue the next morning, we all wake bleary-eyed and panic, thinking we've going to be late for our transport through to Glasgow. Cue a mad rush to get from Bruntsfield to Haymarket only to find we are far too early :greengrin

Saw the bus on west end of Princes Street, can't remember much else after that :thumbsup:

HoboHarry
28-10-2015, 03:37 AM
I hadn't been back in the country long after my first stint abroad. Watched the game at my (Hun supporting) mates house with my mams labrador wearing a Hibs shirt and my American wife watching the first game of soccer (ahem) she had ever seen. She thought it was always like that lol.....

Bostonhibby
28-10-2015, 09:08 AM
What a great couple of days it was, especially after Mercers efforts to obliterate us. Started very early morning at Porters in Piershill where we had a bus organised - drinking green beer for breakfast - Ended up with 3 of us wandering about Leith at 2 a.m (ish) the following morning.

We had a fair bit of delay getting into the ground but made it okay though in the scramble to get in lost quite a few of our fellow travellers. Still have quite a few souvenirs of the day, including post cards of the Statue mentioned above with a Hibs scarf on it. Sent one to my old boss who was a yam.

We had some decent players then and a great spirit. I appreciated what Alex Miller did for us at and around that time:duck:

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28-10-2015, 10:18 AM
Is that no the game where the Players through Murdo McLeod had placed a bet early in the competition that they would lift the Cup?:wink:


Yup. IIRC the story was that when Hibs were quoted at 50-1 before the tournament started, some of the players reckoned they wanted a piece of it. Murdo (was he team captain?) was sent round with the money to the bookies to place the bet and then they just basically forgot about it and got on with things.

After the final the story got out and there was a suggestion that there should be disciplinary action taken against them, but since they'd bet on themselves to win there could be no suggestion that they'd thrown any games, and from all the talk at the time the sum involved wasn't so big that they would (or could) have bribed any of the other teams to throw games - I mean, £200 to Rangers to lie down in the semi? Aye, I can see that working.

All the bet had meant was that they'd arranged a nice wee winning bonus for themselves.

IIRC they were all told they had been very naughty boys and not to do it again.

GreenLake
28-10-2015, 11:55 AM
A great day standing in the middle of a sea of green and the only cup final out of three I came home to watch that we won. The other two we lost to the incumbent cheats and the soap shunners. I wish I had got home for the 2007 final which must have been amazing to witness. Fortunately, I didn't even see that fraudulent cup final with the ingrained cheats on TV.

emerald green
28-10-2015, 07:56 PM
The crowd I was with got in just before they locked the gates. One guy told me after the game he was locked out and the police wouldn't let him and his wee boy into the Dunfermline end.

There was a massive Hibs support that day. Where have so many of them gone?

Tommy MacIntyre and Keith Wright were both so cool and composed as they scored those two goals. The place just erupted.

Ended up crawling along Rose Street when we got back into town. Great memories.

Iggy Pope
28-10-2015, 08:04 PM
Not sure of that boozer, but there must have been thousand's with no idea how they got home.....The glory days:greengrin


Hibs club was rammed.
I got home apparently.
I also apparently put a Fray Bentos steak pie in the Microwave. Still in its tin though.....

Peevemor
28-10-2015, 08:40 PM
Was there too, half way up the terracing on the corner. The Hibs support were pretty quiet, even at 2-0 - I think everyone was still bricking it (knowing Hibs and all that...).

Went straight back to the East at ER to watch the cup being paraded then on to the Windsor and eventual lock-in. Give L&B's finest their due, they came to the door of the pub a couple of times well after hours and simply (and politely) asked us to keep the noise down, even though they could have emptied the place.

erin go bragh
29-10-2015, 07:17 AM
A week or so before the final Hibs got a penalty and TM scored. I think it was his first for the club. The bookies didn't realise that he was our penalty taker and had him at 22/1 to score first. I had £2.00 on him which made it even sweeter.

I had a fiver on him at 33-1 ( which justified me taking the week off work )
⚽️🏆

GGTTH