Bertie Auld has passed

[alhibby]

RIP, Bertie, good memories

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[Hibernia&Alba]

Before my time, but another legendary name in Scottish football leaves us. Very sad news.

RIP Bertie.

[Crunchie]

RIP, great memories of Bertie and a great character.

[Billy Whizz]

Before my time, but another legendary name in Scottish football leaves us. Very sad news.

RIP Bertie.

Hibs Manager 1980-82, loved a joke and a cigar

[cabbageandribs1875]

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RIP Bertie :(

[Kato]

RIP Bertie.

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[Ronniekirk]

Sad News indeed Great player and some Character


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[Bostonhibby]

RIP Bertie, one of the good guys.

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[brog]

The Bertie Auld/Nobby Stiles match up was legendary!

[J-C]

RIP Bertie, always had a smile on his face. 😥

[BILLYHIBS]

Absolute legend

Silky classy player with a touch of steel

Knowledgeable experienced Manager

Thanks for the memories

https://youtu.be/1cPNeIcdmpk


RIP Bertie

[lyonhibs]

A legend from a legendary team from a legendary period for Scottish football.

[Hiber-nation]

Always remember the crowd chanting for him at the end of game when we beat Raith in the last game of our 1st Division winning season in 80-81 only to find he'd buggered off to Spain after we beat East Stirling during the week!

RIP Bertie.

[Keith_M]

Among other clubs, the guy served Partick Thistle well as manager between 1974 and 1980

His teams weren't the most adventurous, but he kept them in the top league for five out of six of those seasons, only playing in the second tier for one season because of league re-organisation.

He'll also be long remembered as a winner of the European Cup.


RIP Bertie Auld.

[FilipinoHibs]

RIP Bertie, great character.

[Iggy Pope]

Cut quite a figure at Hibs and put us back in the papers when we were needing it.
RIP Bertie

[Bishop Hibee]

Always remember the crowd chanting for him at the end of game when we beat Raith in the last game of our 1st Division winning season in 80-81 only to find he'd buggered off to Spain after we beat East Stirling during the week!

RIP Bertie.

Haha I was at that game. He got us promotion at the first time of asking. Quite a character with his penchant for Cuban cigars. RIP.

[PatHead]

RIP Bertie. A real character.

[Carheenlea]

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Sad to learn of Berties passing. One of the great characters.

[Hibernia&Alba]

How many of the Lisbon Lions team are still alive now? Like the England World Cup side, they are now at the age where they are passing away.

[Hiber-nation]

Jim Craig, John Clark, Willie Wallace and Bobby Lennox.

[CyberSauzee]

Always remember the crowd chanting for him at the end of game when we beat Raith in the last game of our 1st Division winning season in 80-81 only to find he'd buggered off to Spain after we beat East Stirling during the week!

RIP Bertie.

Remember that, we were all on the pitch shouting "we want Bertie, we want Bertie."

[A Hi-Bee]

So sad to hear, he was some player and a real character, he put the "G" in Gallus and could back it up when required. RIP Bertie.

[O'Rourke3]

Hard as nails and a real character. RIP Bertie

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[Hibbyradge]

Absolute legend

Silky classy player with a touch of steel

Knowledgeable experienced Manager

Thanks for the memories

RIP Bertie

"Yous have got a point, don't lose it!" :hilarious

RIP Bertie.

[Hibernia&Alba]

So sad to hear, he was some player and a real character, he put the "G" in Gallus and could back it up when required. RIP Bertie.

A great Scottish word. For me it's up there with glaikit and sleekit!

[CMurdoch]

One of the greats of the Scottish game but more importantly a great character.
Really funny guy who would have a chat with you.
RIP Bertie, one of life's good guys and a great footballer.

[marinello59]

Always remember the crowd chanting for him at the end of game when we beat Raith in the last game of our 1st Division winning season in 80-81 only to find he'd buggered off to Spain after we beat East Stirling during the week!

RIP Bertie.

Remember that. :greengrin

RIP Bertie.

[heretoday]

I saw him score two at Hampden when Celtic won the cup in 1965. That was the start of the modern era for them. Great no.10 type.
He always had a big cigar on show in the days when that meant classy.

[weecounty hibby]

A great of the Scottish game. One of a group of players whose achievements will never be matched. He was manager when I really started getting into Hibs week in and week out. I must have been a total masochist as an 11 year old!! He was the manager of the first Hibs team I saw winning anything. I can actually remember more about that time than I do of some recent seasons so must have made a big impression.
RIP Bertie

[gbhibby]

One of the greats of the Scottish game but more importantly a great character.
Really funny guy who would have a chat with you.
RIP Bertie, one of life's good guys and a great footballer.
Ditto, had the pleasure of having a chat with him.

[007]

Rest in peace Bertie.

[AltheHibby]

Ditto, had the pleasure of having a chat with him.

I never got to chat with him, but I once managed to say well done after a win and got a huge smile and thanks in return

That summed up Bertie for me. A great guy.

RIP.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

Met him once at Celtic Park hospitality, the reason I was there escapes me, must've been one of my Celtic supporting mates had a spare ticket. Lovely man and stopped for a blether with every single person in the room, RIP Bertie

[Kato]

Was down at Wembley 1979. I was in the ground for 1.00pm, me and a pal planning to enjoy watching the ground fill up.

By 1.10pm I had been chucked out by an over enthusiastic Bobby ( total injustice btw ) so spent the next couple of hours squeezing about the concourse and up and down Wembley Way trying to get another ticket. Every now and then you'd see a clutch of tickets being waved around or a circle of blokes forming but by the time you got through the crowd they'd be gone. I saw a big circle of guys so made my way there and standing in the middle was Bertie. Just standing, big hat on, immaculate, puffing away on his cigar. No body was saying anything to him, just standing there grinning at him smoking away on his corona, Bertie staring into the distance. Charisma.

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[TObeachesHibby]

They don't make 'em like Bertie any more. RIP Bertie.

[allyh1bs]

They don't make 'em like Bertie any more. RIP Bertie.

I recall a story, which I believe to be true, concerning a pre-season friendly v Middlesbrough at ER. Nobby Stiles was in their team that day. As usual he was kicking everything above the grass, and he landed a dull one on Bertie. Tom MacNiven ran on, looked at the injury, and told Bertie he had to come off.
Bertie said “OK Tam, I’ll do that, but just give me a couple more minutes on the park.” Moments later, Bertie hobbled off, alongside the stretcher carrying Stiles. Hard man Nobby? Nah, that’s a hard man you’ve met today.
Result was (I think) 2-2 and I was about 15, standing at the Dunbar end, so around 1970 or so.


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[BILLYHIBS]

I recall a story, which I believe to be true, concerning a pre-season friendly v Middlesbrough at ER. Nobby Stiles was in their team that day. As usual he was kicking everything above the grass, and he landed a dull one on Bertie. Tom MacNiven ran on, looked at the injury, and told Bertie he had to come off.
Bertie said “OK Tam, I’ll do that, but just give me a couple more minutes on the park.” Moments later, Bertie hobbled off, alongside the stretcher carrying Stiles. Hard man Nobby? Nah, that’s a hard man you’ve met today.
Result was (I think) 2-2 and I was about 15, standing at the Dunbar end, so around 1970 or so.


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Match was 31st July 1971 one of ET’s first games in charge

Hibernian 0 v 2 Middlesbrough

A few days later 2nd August we played Shalke 04 (0-0) at Easter Road where the Famous Five were introduced to the fans before kickoff

[The Harp]

Another of the Lions, and one of the charismatic characters of the Scottish game, gone.
Sincere condolences to Bertie's family and friends.

RIP Bertie

[EI255]

Legend.
RIP big man [emoji120]

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[ancient hibee]

Bertie had always been a fair to middling player. Jock Stein turned him into a great player. For a few years the best midfield player in Scotland- needless to say not recognised in international caps..A more than capable manager and a great character.Will be sadly missed.

[Lago]

Hibs Manager 1980-82, loved a joke and a cigar
Promotion under his management

[greenginger]

Promotion under his management

and mid table first year back up.

[heretoday]

Won league cup medal with Birmingham and then went on to Fairs Cup final v Roma who had beaten Hibs in the semi.
It has to be said the tournament was not as arduous as the equivalent nowadays!

[brog]

I recall a story, which I believe to be true, concerning a pre-season friendly v Middlesbrough at ER. Nobby Stiles was in their team that day. As usual he was kicking everything above the grass, and he landed a dull one on Bertie. Tom MacNiven ran on, looked at the injury, and told Bertie he had to come off.
Bertie said “OK Tam, I’ll do that, but just give me a couple more minutes on the park.” Moments later, Bertie hobbled off, alongside the stretcher carrying Stiles. Hard man Nobby? Nah, that’s a hard man you’ve met today.
Result was (I think) 2-2 and I was about 15, standing at the Dunbar end, so around 1970 or so.


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That pretty much sums it up. John Fairgrieve, a Jambo but an excellent journalist, devoted a whole chapter to the incident in one of his books.

[IWasThere2016]

Great player / too cautious as a boss though.

Lovely man

RIP Bertie

[allyh1bs]

That pretty much sums it up. John Fairgrieve, a Jambo but an excellent journalist, devoted a whole chapter to the incident in one of his books.

I see that match was actually on 31/07/1971.


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[Phil MaGlass]

He gave me a Hibs Bukta top (I think it was) when opening Thompson sports in Edinburgh many years ago.

[heretoday]

I just finished A Bhoy Called Bertie - Auld's autobiog. It's a great read and contains some surprises.

He didn't always get on with Stein, who was contrary and devious on occasion, he thought Turnbull was a better coach than Big Jock and he was daggers drawn with Kenny Waugh when he took over from Tom Hart at ER. Like Stein, Auld was brought up a protestant.

Bertie was sent off in his debut for Scotland. He had run-ins with several characters. It's fair to say he could be an awkward customer to deal with on the field and as a manager. There's some good stuff about wheeling and dealing in the lower reaches of the old Scottish first division with Partick.

You never get the true picture in these books but Auld's is better than most. There are fine descriptions of his tough Maryhill youth, the nerve-jangling Old Firm encounters in the fifties and sixties in front of massive crowds and of course the road to Lisbon. There's a huge amount of humanity in it too.

Well worth a look!

[BILLYHIBS]

Heard that Bertie kept all his medals in his top drawer at Easter Road

If anyone had the temerity to doubt his football logic he would say you show me your medals and I’ll show you mine ? 😃