Favourite Fir Park Memories

[bigwheel]

As we head to Motherwell this weekend - any favourite memories from matches against them down the years ...

I’ll start with the “Konte” match..secured European football for us ...ahem “Legend”...

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[Billy Whizz]

6-6 game

[The Sundance Kid]

Running riot in a 6-1 win in one of Collins’ first games in charge

[The Modfather]

Our performance there under Collins in a 6-1 win.

[PaulSmith]

Nothing will come close to the 6-1 performance. We’ll never witness this again at Fir Park.

[Danderhall Hibs]

6-1 and Konte games aside I remember the 2-0 (or maybe 2-1) win way back at the start of Mowbray time. It was his second game in charge I think and we’d just lost at home to Killie.

GO’C scored both I think and Brown in goals made a couple of cracking saves.

[Billy Whizz]

At least 2 managers left us after defeats at Fir Park
Duffy lost 6-2, after being 2-0 up, replaced by McLeish
Lennon left after last January’s 2-0 defeat

[JeMeSouviens]

Jocky Scott falling off his crutches when Jim Leighton got sent off.

[we are hibs]

3-2 in august 2010

[Auckland Hibs]

Friday night game on Sky 0-0 - non stop singing about Michael O'Neil being Jesus Christ after he was being tipped to leave ER. IEC bus was bouncing.

[BILLYHIBS]

Andy Watson’s debut after joining us from Hearts 1/9/1987

League Cup QF 0–1 loss

It wasn’t pretty

[Lewiehas2]

3-1 when wee zemamma ran the show. Crowd shouting ole as he did multiple step overs and skipped past their defence time and time again

[Hakim Sar]

Keep cigarettes away from the match

[murray26]

3-1 when wee zemamma ran the show. Crowd shouting ole as he did multiple step overs and skipped past their defence time and time again

Yes enjoyed that one Riordan netting the 3rd with a fine side footed finish but the 1st thing that springs to my mind whenever a trip to Fir park is concerned will always be that 6-6 mental..

[Cat Stanton]

6-6 game

You surely can't have been there (or your were drunk) if that's a "favourite" memory.

6-2 up, Graeme Smith in goal - horrendous evening in the end..

[Bishop Hibee]

Derek Townsley running the length of the pitch in front of the Motherwell fans cupping his ear after scoring his second. They were going mental!
A close second is Andy Goram deliberately booting the ball into someone’s garden instead of just knocking it out of play. Kano couldn’t stop laughing.

[Bostonhibby]

Posted similar before in the past, early 80's, travelled independently, had a few drinks, half dozen of us got in the ground about 2.30 which was early for us and there were probably less than a hundred hibbies.

PC plod rolled up, spaced out a wee bit on the steps then proceeded to walk through talking to and nabbing a few fans.

One of our group got lifted and ejected for nothing, he complained to a copper in the unit outside and was told he could go back in but he'd have to pay again!!

He did, irony is one of our guys was a Lothian and Borders cop but they really weren't interested in what he had to say. Policing 80's style. Has it changed much?

Think it was a 2-2 pettigrew scored. He usually did!

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[HappyAsHellas]

A midweek match there in the 1970's and Hibs fans were going to the toilets at half time. The police lifted a guy for urinating on the outside wall of the toilets, which had no roof and it was drier outside even though it was chucking it down.

More recently, McGinn holding off about 3 of their players to let the ball run out for a bye kick - amazing show of strength.

[Billy Whizz]

You surely can't have been there (or your were drunk) if that's a "favourite" memory.

6-2 up, Graeme Smith in goal - horrendous evening in the end..

It was a memory though, and it was a helluva night

[Hermit Crab]

It was a memory though, and it was a helluva night


£10 to get in that night as well, and the game was live on tv. 12 goals for a tenner - bargain.

[berwickhibee]

Vaguely remember hibs winning 2-0 in a midweek fixture with Neil orr getting one of the goals.

Think it was towards the end of the season.

[HibbyAndy]

Friday night game on Sky 0-0 - non stop singing about Michael O'Neil being Jesus Christ after he was being tipped to leave ER. IEC bus was bouncing.

I remember that game !! Must have been about 1994-95

Michael Oneil along with Riordan could shoot with either foot ..A rarity in the modern game !

[bigwheel]

£10 to get in that night as well, and the game was live on tv. 12 goals for a tenner - bargain.

Lol....I’d have paid a lot never to see that ...out of all our bad keepers Smith is right up there imho...

[bigwheel]

Andy Watson’s debut after joining us from Hearts 1/9/1987

League Cup QF 0–1 loss

It wasn’t pretty

Recall that one too ....At that time we still got half of the main terracing...Watson looked very average - but the team at the time were struggling iirc so we were sort of happy to see any new face ..

[HibbyAndy]

I remember posting a thread saying David Wotherspoon would score 1st in a 3-0 win for Hibs and would have stood to gain about 4 thousand quid till Danny Handling scored in injury time to make it 4-0

I felt quite ill afterwards

[Billy Whizz]

Lol....I’d have paid a lot never to see that ...out of all our bad keepers Smith is right up there imho...

We really should have lost it 7-6

[bigwheel]

We really should have lost it 7-6

Lol. No. He did save a pen ....but he threw in about four of them...should have seen out the game

[brog]

Pat Stanton's debut. He scored, we lost 4-3 but those of us there witnessed a legend commencing his Hibs career

[hibeg]

Showing my age but one of the best games I can vaguely remember was a Scottish Cup game in the mid 1970s, possibly a quarter final
2-2 draw and the crowd must have been at least 15,000, it was rammed. I do remember a Hibs fan being led out with a dart sticking out his head :confused:
I’m pretty sure Derek Spalding scored one of our goals.
Memory may be playing tricks but I think we also drew the replay at ER and then had to go to Ibrox for a deciding match on a Monday night. I was there but can’t remember anything about it

[SJNB Hibby]

Nothing will come close to the 6-1 performance. We’ll never witness this again at Fir Park.

My first Hibs game in 20+ years
Was on the train down with a 'Well fan and his kid
Told him we'd win 5-0

[we are hibs]

That season we drew 6-6 with motherwell was the start of 4 years of decline. We done well that season up until about february when we went to ibrox and lost 3-0. Played well 1st half. Zemmama gave them a roasting then that fat cretin boyd elbowed him and we fell out the game and our form took a massive nose dive after that.

[BILLYHIBS]

Recall that one too ....At that time we still got half of the main terracing...Watson looked very average - but the team at the time were struggling iirc so we were sort of happy to see any new face ..

It is the pelters he took I remember

He came over to take a throw in early doors and there were hibbies gobbing at him.....no need!

It didn’t help we got gubbed

Turned out not a bad midfielder scored a few weeks later and the boo boys backed off ended up our Assistant Manager IIRC

[Broken Gnome]

The first half in the 6-1 game was about as flawless as Hibs have been in recent times.

The 4-0 Friday night game was good fun too.

I'd also wager that Konte's equaliser was about the biggest away support outside a trip to Livi that a non-Old Firm team has had since all seater stadiums came in?

[weedgiehibbie]

Derek Townsley running the length of the pitch in front of the Motherwell fans cupping his ear after scoring his second. They were going mental!
A close second is Andy Goram deliberately booting the ball into someone’s garden instead of just knocking it out of play. Kano couldn’t stop laughing.

Remember big Deek scoring a couple in a 2-0 win (I think) that free kick as a bit of a cracket if I remember.

Someone else mentioned Leighton getting sent off - can remember Andy Millen going in goals and doing quite well (no pun intended) in a 1-1 draw - his hand going up time and time again to punch crosses away

[CloudSquall]

I still believe Smith had to have done a Grobbelaar, nothing can explain such a horrid performance.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Running riot in a 6-1 win in one of Collins’ first games in charge

I ended up staying in the pub in Motherwell instead of heading to the game, at least I had the consolation of a £10ew on Scott Brown for 1st scorer. Ended up having a cracking night in a Rangers pub in Bellshill watching Hearts v The Huns, although that could possibly have been after the Konte game now I come to think it.

[madsen5]

I still believe Smith had to have done a Grobbelaar, nothing can explain such a horrid performance.

Pat Stanton making his debut ⭐

[bigwheel]

Pat Stanton making his debut [emoji294]

Was he seen as a star as soon as he played ??

[PaulSmith]

Scorching hot day in August watching Keith Wright scoring his first goal for Hibs in that beautiful Adidas away kit of 1991. There was a cracking Hibs support that day iirc.


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[JeMeSouviens]

Did Keith Wright not score his first Hibs goal there too?

Edit: he did. Answered even as I was asking :greengrin

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Ended up having a cracking night in a Rangers pub in Bellshill watching Hearts v The Huns, although that could possibly have been after the Konte game now I come to think it.

Turns out it was neither! 8th September 2001, 3-1 win for Hibs. The day before flying out to Zante for the Athens "first" game.

[Billy Whizz]

When Stephen Glass scored at the Hibs end, he pointed to a big advert that said “The Glass Man”

[truehibernian]

Got to be the 2-2 and Amadou's goal :greengrin Bollah would concur (surely) :greengrin

[SquashedFrogg]

Did Keith Wright not score his first Hibs goal there too?

Edit: he did. Answered even as I was asking :greengrin

Was it not against Chelsea?

[JeMeSouviens]

Was it not against Chelsea?

Yep, but that was just a friendly. 2-2 draw, the other scorer was Raynes, one of the papers headlined the report “As Wright as Raynes”.

[Spike Mandela]

Standing at the corner flag behind the little wall with my mates who were giving Davie Cooper dogs abuse. When Motherwell got a corner and Cooper was running over, with his back to the ref, he started flicking the V’s at them. I had to hold them back but I thought it was hilarious at the time. A real character and what a talent.

[bigwheel]

Standing at the corner flag behind the little wall with my mates who were giving Davie Cooper dogs abuse. When Motherwell got a corner and Cooper was running over, with his back to the ref, he started flicking the V’s at them. I had to hold them back but I thought it was hilarious at the time. A real character and what a talent.

He really was a class player...wow. What a talent.....


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[SquashedFrogg]

Yep, but that was just a friendly. 2-2 draw, the other scorer was Raynes, one of the papers headlined the report “As Wright as Raynes”.

I was at the game in the old main stand. Sat 2 seats along from Davie Hay.

Weird how you remember the unimportant stuff but forget other stuff.

[Keith_M]

Nothing will come close to the 6-1 performance. We’ll never witness this again at Fir Park.


:agree:

[weecounty hibby]

Standing at the corner flag behind the little wall with my mates who were giving Davie Cooper dogs abuse. When Motherwell got a corner and Cooper was running over, with his back to the ref, he started flicking the V’s at them. I had to hold them back but I thought it was hilarious at the time. A real character and what a talent.
I believe that was the day of the exploding ice cube and from memory we stayed in the pub too long and missed about half an hour of the game. We had no clue what the score was!

[weecounty hibby]

Motherwell away was my eldest daughters first away game. She was two and a half! She is thirty this year. I am getting old

[Iggy Pope]

Think my first away league game on the Hawkhill bus was a draw at Fir Park in 1976.
Seem to recall Keith Wright made his league debut there too, 1-1 draw maybe? Or was it his first goal, **** knows.
Always a ground I’ve enjoyed visiting.

[Iggy Pope]

Was it not against Chelsea?

His first goal was a friendly at Cowdenbeath by the way.

[my left peg]

Scorching hot day in August watching Keith Wright scoring his first goal for Hibs in that beautiful Adidas away kit of 1991. There was a cracking Hibs support that day iirc.


Sent from my iPad using TapatalkGot the train home with budgie after that game.....what a character!

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[Sir David Gray]

Opening game of the 2010/11 season, we won 3-2 and the one thing I remember was the outstanding performance from Liam Miller who was quite simply brilliant for the whole game.

[Iggy Pope]

Pat Stanton making his debut ⭐

Ya ****er. Top that!

[truehibernian]

Motherwell away was my eldest daughters first away game. She was two and a half! She is thirty this year. I am getting old

Motherwell (at home) was my eldest's first ever Hibs game. Bitterly cold and I'm sure Scott Brown scored in a win - reason I'm not sure is I was more concerned how I was going to defrost him and explain to his mum that actually he did have a 'good time' despite him being like a human ice pole :greengrin

[Iggy Pope]

Opening game of the 2010/11 season, we won 3-2 and the one thing I remember was the outstanding performance from Liam Miller who was quite simply brilliant for the whole game.

Scored a sublime goal too and leapt into the Hibs end.

[brog]

Ya ****er. Top that!

I already did! 😊

[Waxy]

Brian Rice scoring a late winner in a 3-2 early eighties when we were allowed under the shed.

[madsen5]

Was he seen as a star as soon as he played ??

I would say yes , just had that bit extra time on the ball even in his first game. Mind you Motherwell were busy kicking the crap out of pat Quinn.

[G B Young]

Pretty sure I remember Zitelli smashing the ball high into the net from a very tight angle and celebrating by taking his shirt off right in front of a pitchside camera to reveal a t-shirt with some sort of message scrawled in felt pen. Think it was on Sky and we won comfortably. Not 100% sure this was at Fir Park tho.

[HibbyAndy]

Pretty sure I remember Zitelli smashing the ball high into the net from a very tight angle and celebrating by taking his shirt off right in front of a pitchside camera to reveal a t-shirt with some sort of message scrawled in felt pen. Think it was on Sky and we won comfortably. Not 100% sure this was at Fir Park tho.

Defo Fir park


'For you Jim '

Think we won 3-0

[Sir David Gray]

Scored a sublime goal too and leapt into the Hibs end.

My brother was in all the newspapers the next day as he was in the front row hugging him. It was a great picture.

[Yuillsy]

I remember that game !! Must have been about 1994-95

Michael Oneil along with Riordan could shoot with either foot ..A rarity in the modern game !Did we not go to that game on Maud's bus??

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[HibbyAndy]

Did we not go to that game on Maud's bus??

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We did mate :agree:...Along with that girl who's name escapes me...Good times mate , Hope you are well

[Alfred E Newman]

A 2-2 cup tie in the mid 70's when Arthur Duncan scored a last minute equaliser in front of almost 20000. We drew the replay at ER eventually going out at a neutral venue. :grr::grr:
Also around that time was the guy getting taken round the track with a dart sticking out his head!
:kdarts:

[Iggy Pope]

A 2-2 cup tie in the mid 70's when Arthur Duncan scored a last minute equaliser in front of almost 20000. We drew the replay at ER eventually going out at a neutral venue. :grr::grr:
Also around that time was the guy getting taken round the track with a dart sticking out his head!
:kdarts:

Ibrox being the venue....?

[The 90+2]

3-0 2000/2001 as been mentioned 18:05 Sunday night. Zitelli thunderbolt the week or so after his Dundee overhead kick on bonfire night. Didn’t go to 6-1 game unfortunately.

Worst has to be losing 4-0 I think, some random scores a Hattrick and I don’t think ever scored for them again.

[Pretty Boy]

A 4-0 win on a Friday night in 2012 (I think) was a good night. Handling scored late on for us and sure Wotherspoon scored a bit of a screamer to open the scoring.

Big Hibs crowd Iirc.

[Alfred E Newman]

Ibrox being the venue....?

Correct.

[HibbyAndy]

A 4-0 win on a Friday night in 2012 (I think) was a good night. Handling scored late on for us and sure Wotherspoon scored a bit of a screamer to open the scoring.

Big Hibs crowd Iirc.

See my post , I lost thousands :rolleyes:

[Greenwich_Hibby]

Early 80's - cannae mind if it was 3-2 or 2-1 but Alan Sneddon scored a belter...

[darwenhibby]

Scorching hot day in August watching Keith Wright scoring his first goal for Hibs in that beautiful Adidas away kit of 1991. There was a cracking Hibs support that day iirc.


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As someone said below it might have been September but a hot day
Loads of Lancashire Hibbies up for the day
Beat St Mirren the week before 4-1
Massive Hibs support
When Keith scored whole end went metal
3 weeks later doing the Huns in the semifinals
Great time to be a hibby 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

[wallpaperman]

I’m certain I remember Alan Sneddon scoring a rare goal at Motherwell, might have been a volley, it was at the away end where we were on the terracing behind the goal.

And Fir Park always had the guy selling macaron bars out a wee box. They were quite good as well from memory.

Edit: Greenwich Hibby just mentioned Sneddon as well, missed that, old memory not too bad then.

[Billy Whizz]

Not a pleasant memory, but did the floodlights not blow one night game

[hibsbollah]

Has anyone mentioned the halftime floodlight failure at 0-0 and eventual abandonment? Not the high point of the Fenlon era.

[Hibeesmad]

Game being abandoned at half time, not a favourite memory but one that springs to mind. 1-0 up too. Fenlons first game in charge.

[hibsbollah]

Three minds thinking alike there. All at 9:39. Not sure what's going on there #creepy

[Hibeesmad]

Three minds thinking alike there. All at 9:39. Not sure what's going on there #creepy

That is weird haha

[hfc rd]

A 4-0 win on a Friday night in 2012 (I think) was a good night. Handling scored late on for us and sure Wotherspoon scored a bit of a screamer to open the scoring.

Big Hibs crowd Iirc.

Yep, I remember it was a .net bus organised for that match.

They scored in the opening 5 mins but the ball was judged not to have crossed the line even though replays showed it had. Higdon missed a penalty for them and Griffiths tucked away 2. I remember for one of them, he actually told Darren Randolph which corner of the net he was going to slot it into! 😁

Overall a very good night and that Allez Allez song was stuck in my head all night! 😁

[MartinfaePorty]

Derek Townsley running the length of the pitch in front of the Motherwell fans cupping his ear after scoring his second. They were going mental!
A close second is Andy Goram deliberately booting the ball into someone’s garden instead of just knocking it out of play. Kano couldn’t stop laughing.Gordon Rae fouling Steve Kirk, but Andy Goram saving the penalty in a dire 0-0 draw. Goram hated Kirk and ran up to him laughing in his face after the save!

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[Kato]

Showing my age but one of the best games I can vaguely remember was a Scottish Cup game in the mid 1970s, possibly a quarter final
2-2 draw and the crowd must have been at least 15,000, it was rammed. I do remember a Hibs fan being led out with a dart sticking out his head :confused:
I’m pretty sure Derek Spalding scored one of our goals.
Memory may be playing tricks but I think we also drew the replay at ER and then had to go to Ibrox for a deciding match on a Monday night. I was there but can’t remember anything about itWe were knocked out at Ibrox, 2nd replay. Bloke with dart in his head was the first thing I thought of when I saw the OP. Huge Hibs support that day. On the telly too.

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[cameronw-hfc]

Remember a game where sparky scored 2, possibly 2 penalties and it was one of the best away supports vocally I can remember from hibs

[Sir David Gray]

Remember a game where sparky scored 2, possibly 2 penalties and it was one of the best away supports vocally I can remember from hibs

That was the night we won 4-0.

That was over 7 years ago believe it or not!

[green with envy]

I could have chosen just about all the above and if had to pick one it would have been my first game at fir Park aged 13, in the 2-2 SC QF when Arthur Duncan scored in the last minute to make it 2-2. I remember being in the shed opposite the main stand where it was absolutely packed with Hibs fans that day.

However there is one game that stands out and it's the only time that i've sat in the main stand at Fir Park and that was January 1990 in a midweek game. I think we won 2-0 but what sticks more in my memory is that Stevie Archiebald seemingly got a taxi back to Edinburgh before the game started after Alex Miller decided not to select him.

[Hermit Crab]

Riordan injury time winner 0-1 Hibs. When there was a bookies in the stand they had a special on. Hibs to win 0-1 and Riordan to score 33/1 or 40/1 (can't mind) but I never backed it. Gutted.

[The 90+2]

Did Townsley not score twice in one game? One a tap in and then took a free kick? Was sunny as anything that day.

Can anyone remember the guy I was on about who scored a second half hat trick for them and done sod all after that ever? I even remember some random tune come over the tannoy when they got a corner. 😁

[Gloucester Hibs]

3-1 when wee zemamma ran the show. Crowd shouting ole as he did multiple step overs and skipped past their defence time and time again

He was totally unplayable that day, scored a beauty of a free kick from an acute angle too. Deeks scores a decent goal in that game too if I mind right.

Also the day we went there as league leaders in October under Collins, Fletcher put us 1-0 up from the spot but we lost 2-1. Think Ross McCormack scored a free kick for Well.

[Gloucester Hibs]

Did Townsley not score twice in one game? One a tap in and then took a free kick? Was sunny as anything that day.

Can anyone remember the guy I was on about who scored a second half hat trick for them and done sod all after that ever? I even remember some random tune come over the tannoy when they got a corner. 😁

Yes I remember that! Sure the free kick was from miles out (or so it seemed).

[green with envy]

Another Fir Park memory, more unique than memorable. It was the first time for a lot of us that watched Hibs this particular day, as it wasn't against Motherwell but a 1-0 win over Gretna with Fletcher getting the goal.

No sure in the context of the thread, if that counts though.:greengrin

[cameronw-hfc]

That was the night we won 4-0.

That was over 7 years ago believe it or not!

Remember it now after actually reading the thread haha. Great night.

[Smartie]

Another Fir Park memory, more unique than memorable. It was the first time for a lot of us that watched Hibs this particular day, as it wasn't against Motherwell but a 1-0 win over Gretna with Fletcher getting the goal.

No sure in the context of the thread, if that counts though.:greengrin

I was trying to remember why I’d been in the stand that ran the length of the pitch opposite the main stand - it must have been against Gretna.

The Konte game I watched from the main stand.

I remember one time not long after the stand went up behind the goal I was through with one of my schoolmates. He’d tried the handle on the door to one of the suites, it opened, so we went in. It wasn’t being used but there were a few biscuits lying on a plate in there, so we made ourselves comfortable and enjoyed a hospitality box to ourselves.