LONDON HIBS FEATURES IN SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

Founder member, Kevin Robertson, featured in an article published in Scotland On Sunday on 20 May 2001. I've reproduced the article below. You can also find it on the Scotland On Sunday website here. (Link may expire). The B & W picture below is reproduced from the paper, but here's a couple of extras discarded from the model shoot! Click on the images for a larger version. Photos are � Scotland On Sunday

 

Fanfare

Kevin Robertson, 34, is founder of the London Hibs Supporters� Club. He lives in Fulham.


I DO Hibs match reports on the web, and started up the London Hibs football team in 1994.

John Leslie, the TV presenter, is our goalkeeper, but we have all sorts of people, from taxi-drivers to labourers, and we�ve just won the league for the second time, running with a 100% record. Davie McPherson�s brother plays centre-back, and Jim Duffy has played for us, too. He really wasn�t good enough! We�re also hoping to get Robbie Williams for next season.

This cup final will be my 16th game this season. Cost is always a factor, as you�re talking �100 a trip. I was at the cup game against Stirling: it was miserable, a cloudy day, and I had an awful hangover as well.

I recently set up a Hibs song contest on the internet: we got 72 responses in four days. It�s been unbelievable, some fantastic ones too. One guy wrote a song to the tune of �Doh a Deer�. It starts: "Eck, a man wi� ginger hair..." The winner will be getting some champagne and whisky.

I went to the semi-final against Livingston, taking my niece and my girlfriend for the first time. For the final, I�ll be driving up from London on Friday for a few pre-match drinks with friends. Around 30 of us are meeting on the day for a "Magnificent Seven" breakfast. We have two double-deckers and a couple of minibuses leaving from Leith to take us to Hampden. There�ll be around 250 of us, and we�ve hired a hotel for after the game - win or lose, we�ll booze.

We�ll get a result against Celtic, though, and if it doesn�t happen now, it will soon. Russell Latapy�s done himself no favours, but Frank Sauzee has won our hearts.

Celtic will either walk it or it will be tight, like the 1-1 game at Parkhead. I can�t see Hibs steaming it 4-0.

Marc Libbra will score, I know that. And if Sauzee gets it right, Henrik Larsson won�t get a sniff. 



Sunday, 20th May 2001
� Scotland on Sunday

 
 

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