Frank Boyle Hibs v Hearts cartoon

[Carheenlea]

Frank Boyle has drawn this pretty nifty cartoon recreating a Hibs v Hearts derby on The Meadows from 1875. I like it :aok:

https://i.postimg.cc/9QDqd3Y2/B20330-A6-5-B8-A-42-B8-8426-A8-B18-C5-F931-D.jpg (https://postimg.cc/G412R5fg)

He plans to make prints available in due course - https://mobile.twitter.com/boylecartoon/status/1249094028882325504

[brog]

Frank Boyle has drawn this pretty nifty cartoon recreating a Hibs v Hearts derby on The Meadows from 1875. I like it :aok:

https://i.postimg.cc/9QDqd3Y2/B20330-A6-5-B8-A-42-B8-8426-A8-B18-C5-F931-D.jpg (https://postimg.cc/G412R5fg)

He plans to make prints available in due course - https://mobile.twitter.com/boylecartoon/status/1249094028882325504


It's very good but even then Hearts were cheating b------s with 3 keepers!! :greengrin

[Tomsk]

I see Canon Hannan, Robert Louis Stevenson and Leerie the Lamplighter in the crowd. Does Stevenson have anything to do with this fixture or is it just some (ahem) poetic licence on the part of the artist?

[Keith_M]

I see Canon Hannan, Robert Louis Stevenson and Leerie the Lamplighter in the crowd. Does Stevenson have anything to do with this fixture or is it just some (ahem) poetic licence on the part of the artist?


I think that was a tribute to Our Lewis Stevenson


:wink:

[Wilson]

I see Canon Hannan, Robert Louis Stevenson and Leerie the Lamplighter in the crowd. Does Stevenson have anything to do with this fixture or is it just some (ahem) poetic licence on the part of the artist?

I take it the young lad is Johnnyboy at his first derby.

[Billy Whizz]

I take it the young lad is Johnnyboy at his first derby.

🤣🤣🤣

[Feed McGraw]

🤣🤣🤣Can't wait for the "This is how it felt" match report. 😄

[BILLYHIBS]

First match took place East Meadows Christmas Day 1875 Hearts were three men short for the first twenty minutes but the inexperienced Hibernian team could not take advantage and lost 0-1

Reminds me of the take ons in the Meadows in the seventies and eighties then back to the pub :greengrin

[Carheenlea]

I see Canon Hannan, Robert Louis Stevenson and Leerie the Lamplighter in the crowd. Does Stevenson have anything to do with this fixture or is it just some (ahem) poetic licence on the part of the artist?

His novel The Strange Case of Dr Football and Mr Stendel is a classic.

[Pagan Hibernia]

First match took place East Meadows Christmas Day 1875 Hearts were three men short for the first twenty minutes but the inexperienced Hibernian team could not take advantage and lost 0-1

Reminds me of the take ons in the Meadows in the seventies and eighties then back to the pub :greengrin

Were we wearing the hoops on that Christmas Day?

[lord bunberry]

Was hibs v hearts always the biggest derby in Edinburgh? I know there was quite a few other teams around at that time and for a good few years after that.

[BILLYHIBS]

Were we wearing the hoops on that Christmas Day?

Difficult to say original choice of colours green top with gold harp but when Club was formed on 6/8/1875 Father Hannon presented a set of strips white with green trim with a Harp on the breast to the club we then had the dark green hoops with a black HFC across the middle before moving back to the emerald green

Erin go Bragh

[James Stephen]

Great detail - even got the irish navvies with their green neckerchiefs and spades and picks, which they used to protect the pitch and the players from anti-catholic mobs who resented irishmen using the meadows.

[BILLYHIBS]

Great detail - even got the irish navvies with their green neckerchiefs and spades and picks, which they used to protect the pitch and the players from anti-catholic mobs who resented irishmen using the meadows.

Don’t forget our own portable goalposts :greengrin

[Northernhibee]

I see Canon Hannan, Robert Louis Stevenson and Leerie the Lamplighter in the crowd. Does Stevenson have anything to do with this fixture or is it just some (ahem) poetic licence on the part of the artist?


Heard he lost his man for the first cross, again. Past it and a target for the boo boys back in even 1875 apparently :grr:

[The 90+2]

Begbie kicking about far right.

[Keith_M]

Difficult to say original choice of colours green top with gold harp but when Club was formed on 6/8/1875 Father Hannon presented a set of strips white with green trim with a Harp on the breast to the club we then had the dark green hoops with a black HFC across the middle before moving back to the emerald green

Erin go Bragh


I thought the first strip was white top and green trousers?

[BILLYHIBS]

I thought the first strip was white top and green trousers?

That was what I said white top with a green trim down the sides and harp crest badge pretty sure the images I have seen white top with white pantaloons :confused: