On this day in history

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Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS

Yeah wudda been about 1-4

I ended up on the pitch and decided to call it a day and thought I better try and find where the driver parked the Carlton Branch Bus

I was 14 and on my own

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D’ye mind that day we had a tv crew on the bus going through to the final....we were so pissed off at the score we left without him on the return journey!

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Originally Posted by Forza Fred

D’ye mind that day we had a tv crew on the bus going through to the final....we were so pissed off at the score we left without him on the return journey!

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:thumbsup:

I was made to sit at the front of the bus beside the driver and Eddie Campbell that was how they noticed my seat was empty

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Originally Posted by Keith_M

Scotland's own version of 'The White Horse Final'


Celtic Fans invade pitch to celebrate their win, Rangers Fans are 'provoked' into attacking them on the pitch.... result? Booze banned at Scottish Finals

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I was there worth a Celtic supporting ex. The pitch was surrounded by a pretty high fence back then so it took a while for the Celtic fans to get on to the pitch in large numbers. A lot of the Rangers fans had already left but came back in to the stadium. Beats me how they were provoked when they couldn’t even see the pitch but there you go. Then it was mayhem. There really was no comparison between that day and what happened at our final yet the press tried to say it was the same. 1979 was driven by anger and hatred. Whilst in 2026 it genuinely was good natured exuberance.

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Originally Posted by marinello59

I was there worth a Celtic supporting ex. The pitch was surrounded by a pretty high fence back then so it took a while for the Celtic fans to get on to the pitch in large numbers. A lot of the Rangers fans had already left but came back in to the stadium. Beats me how they were provoked when they couldn’t even see the pitch but there you go. Then it was mayhem. There really was no comparison between that day and what happened at our final yet the press tried to say it was the same. 1979 was driven by anger and hatred. Whilst in 2026 it genuinely was good natured exuberance.

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Makes our wee pitch invasion look like a walk in the park

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Originally Posted by marinello59

I was there worth a Celtic supporting ex. The pitch was surrounded by a pretty high fence back then so it took a while for the Celtic fans to get on to the pitch in large numbers. A lot of the Rangers fans had already left but came back in to the stadium. Beats me how they were provoked when they couldn’t even see the pitch but there you go. Then it was mayhem. There really was no comparison between that day and what happened at our final yet the press tried to say it was the same. 1979 was driven by anger and hatred. Whilst in 2026 it genuinely was good natured exuberance.

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What we are winning it again in 2026! Going to get sick of winning the damned thing. Should we not give someone else a chance?

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Originally Posted by PatHead

What we are winning it again in 2026! Going to get sick of winning the damned thing. Should we not give someone else a chance?

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Hmmm, no.

Let's keep winning it.

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11/5/2019 Scottish League Premiership

Kilmarnock 1 v 0 Hibernian

A disputed Eamonn Brophy penalty was enough to settle a typically tight meeting between Hibernian and Kilmarnock at Rugby Park. Paul Heckingbottom made two changes to his starting line-up with Hibernian Academy graduate Fraser Murray handed his first start of the season Daryl Horgan and Ryan Gauld made way for the pair

Ofir Marciano was called into action early on to deal with a firm strike from Alex Bruce which he gathered at the second attempt At the other end Marc McNulty and Stephane Omeonga combined well before laying the ball into the path of Kamberi but Greg Taylor was alert to cut out the danger

With 20 minutes on the clock Omeonga was involved again cutting in from the left to curl a shot that was easily dealt with by Daniel Bachmann The hosts edged closer with Brophy blazing over and Taylor’s attempted cross bouncing back off Marciano’s bar Marciano displayed his incredible reflexes again on the half hour mark to tip Alan Power’s header round the post drawing applause from the home and away supporters

Killie however were not to be denied and took the lead from the spot when Alex Bruce was adjudged to have been dragged down in the box by David Gray by Referee Andrew Dallas when it looked the other way about Eamonn Brophy made no mistake from the spot The Under-21 Scotland striker blew the chance to double their lead when put through one on one but dragged his effort wide

Heckingbottom rolled the dice with a triple substitution after 65 minutes with Horgan Shaw and Agyepong replacing Kamberi McNulty and Omeonga. Shaw threatened after indecision between Bruce and Bachmann but the goalkeeper eventually took charge of the situation

With a couple of minutes left on the clock it looked like Agyepong had snatched a late leveller after he jinked his way in from the left before unleashing a ferocious strike Bachmann however was in fine form and somehow tipped over to secure all three points for his team

”It’s not a penalty. That’s not the reason we lost the game. We lost the game because we were rubbish. There’s nothing more to say we looked like a team that had nothing to play for “
Paul Heckingbottom


Hibs: Rocky Gray MacGregor Hanlon Stevenson F Murray Mallan Milligan Omeonga Kamberi and McNulty

Subs Horgan Shaw and Agyepong for Omeonga Kamberi and McNulty 65

Unused Bogdan Bartley Gauld and Spector

Att:7484

https://youtu.be/xZMl_7CUOvM



11/5/2011 Scottish League SPL Inverness CT A 0-2



11/5/2008 Scottish League SPL Celtic A 0-2

Canning and Ian Murray sent off





11/5/1991 Scottish League Premier Division St Mirren A 0-1




11/5/1985 Scottish League Premier Division

Hibernian 1 v 0 Rangers

Kano pen

Throughout the first half the tackling was just short of dangerous and Michael Weir and David Cooper were the best players in their respective sides and both did well to avoid injury

With Gordon Rae commanding in the middle of the HIBS defence HIBS coped with Rangers attacks admirably Iain Munro and Alan Sneddon provided drive from the full back positions Paul Kane worked intelligently in support of Weir and Callachan and the pace and control of Joe McBride brought a pace and tireless response from the strikers Gordon Durie and Willie Irvine whose sheer strength and stamina never ceases to amaze

Rangers plight was summed up in the 38th minute when Craig Paterson plagued by injury and only just returned from another lay-off was wrong footed by a cross from the line by Durie and used a hand to deflect the ball. Kane stroked the penalty sweetly past Nicky Walker

The second half produced some crowd trouble when rival fans managed to invade the segregated section of the main terracing

Cooper and McMinn tried to inspire a late Rangers fight back but Rae and Rough managed to keep them at bay

One of the last games played in front of the old East Terracing

Rangers were a poor side and HIBS won easily with a Paul Kane penalty and Ralph Callachan and Michael Weir pulling the strings in midfield in front of a poor attendance of only 7149

On a sad note news filtered through of the Bradford City Stadium Fire in which 56 fans lost their lives and 265 were injured




Hibs: Rough Sneddon Munro Kane Rae Brazil Callachan Durie Irvine Weir and McBride










11/5/1963 Scottish League Division One Old St Mirren H 2-1

Gerry Baker
John Baxter

St Mirren provided the final home opposition of the season and in a stirring programme note Manager Walter Galbraith pleaded for “a rousing support from the Terracing this afternoon..you can play your part in helping the team” That encouragement was duly forthcoming and the players responded by winning the game 2-1 Baker and Baxter grabbing the goals

With two away games left HIBS needed three points to make sure of safety and that was the worst case scenario based on Clyde winning their one remaining fixture versus Rangers at Shawfield. The game in hand for HIBS involved a potentially tricky visit to Palmerston Park to face Queen of the South A tight pitch and a noisy support would cause problems but a large HIBS support made the journey and the noise they would make would cancel out the home support An early goal settled the nerves and at the end of the game Baker 2 Scott and Eric Stevenson would give the Hibees an emphatic 4-0 win

So we come to the last game of the season with HIBS visiting already relegated Raith Rovers and Clyde entertaining Rangers A huge HIBS support made it over the Forth and they were well rewarded with HIBS recording another emphatic 4-0 win with Baxter 2 Fraser and Baker the marksmen

It was celebrations all around Starks Park as HIBS had avoided relegation and to add to the relief word filtered through that Clyde had failed to beat Rangers

When the celebrations had died down it was sobering to realise that in 34 League games HIBS had won just 8 drawn 9 and lost 17 with 47 goals scored and 67 conceded for a total of just 25 points just two away from the relegation place

Walter Galbraith would have to do better if he wanted to keep his job and that new and better recruits were required

Gerry Baker finished top scorer with 22 goals in all competitions while Joe McClelland made the most appearances with 44 just one ahead of Ronnie Simpson





11/5/1953 Coronation Cup Round One

Hibernian 1 v 1 Tottenham Hotspur

Smith

In celebration of the forthcoming coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11 the top eight British sides of the time would play a knockout competition. Arsenal Manchester United Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur would represent England whilst Rangers Celtic Hibernian and Aberdeen would represent Scotland with all the matches being played in Glasgow

Hibs drew a crowd of 45000 for their first round clash versus Spurs at Ibrox.

As early as the ninth minute HIBS were ahead when Ormond took a short corner to Reilly whose delivery into the box picked out Gordon Smith who made it 1-0. On the brink of half-time Bailey crossed for Walters to head past Younger and that proved to be the last goal of the game despite there being an additional 30 minutes played to find a winner

It is worth pointing out that a new lighter ball was used and both sides struggled to adapt

The replay was 24 hours later at the same venue in front of a much-reduced attendance Defences were on top until the 28th minute when McClellan fired home to put Spurs 1-0 up

The second half witnessed HIBS taking command of the game and so it was no surprise when Govan’s free-kick was smacked into the net by the predatory Reilly Then a superb drive by Smith was tipped over the bar by Reynolds and you got the feeling a winner should come from the Edinburgh men and it did on the ninetieth minute when Johnstone’s inch perfect cross was met by the head of Lawrie Reilly and the ball flew past Reynolds into the net to put HIBS into the semi-final against Newcastle United

Hibs: Younger Govan Shaw Buchanan Paterson and Combe Smith Johnstone Reilly Turnbull and Ormond

Att: 20000




11/5/1940 Scottish Regional League Eastern Division Dundee United A 3-1

Mayes 2
Gilmartin




11/5/1901 Inter City League Third Lanark A 0-4





Birthdays


Andres Iniesta 36 ex Barca






At Easter Road They Play John Campbell

Prince of Wingers Gordon Smith. Tony Smith











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11/5/1985 English Third Division

Bradford City v Lincoln City

The Bradford City Stadium Fire Disaster

56 fans sadly lost their lives 265 injured

RIP

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12/5/2013 Scottish League SPL

Hearts 1 v 2 Hibernian

Griffiths
Caldwell

Ross Caldwell curled in a wonderful 90th minute strike to give Hibernian their first derby win at Tynecastle in four years

Darren Barr poked Hearts in front on the stroke of half time as keeper Ben Williams messed up from a corner but a stunning free-kick from Leigh Griffiths ( who made up for his wrongly disallowed free-kick at Easter Road) levelled matters early in the second half. Ross Caldwell’s cool finish from 14 yards on the 90th minute lifted HIBS back above Hearts into ninth place in the SPL table

Jordon Forster made a solid debut in the HIBS defence which was HIBS ‘ first unbeaten season against their city rivals since 2000/01.

Hibs Williams Maybury Forster Hanlon Stevenson Claros Taiwo Thomson Harris Caldwell and Griffiths

Sub Robertson for Thomson 80

Unused Murdock Donaldson Deegan Wotherspoon Doyle and Handling

Att: 15994


https://youtu.be/p-N79B-rTP4



12/5/2012 Scottish League SPL

Inverness CT 2 v 0 Hibernian

Hibs’ last game of a season in which they finished eleventh but they had already guaranteed their safety by defeating Aberdeen 2-1 away and defeating Dunfermline 4-0 at home to relegate them


12/5/2007 Scottish League SPL

Hearts 2 v 0 Hibernian

A bad day at the office for HIBS with defensive lapses costing HIBS dear in this one

A mixed bag of a season HIBS’ cup runs affecting their league form winning the CIS Cup and being knocked out of the Scottish Cup in a semi-final replay versus Dunfermline Athletic

This was HIBS’ penultimate game they would finish sixth going on to defeat Celtic 2-1 at home in the final game of the season Derek Riordan would score for Celtic


12/5/2002 Scottish League SPL St Johnstone A 1-0

Townsley

Hibs would finish tenth in this season St Johnstone already relegated


12/5/1984 Scottish League Premier Division Rangers H 0-0



12/5/1979 Scottish Cup Final

Rangers 0 v 0 Hibernian

This match was eagerly anticipated but on the day was a huge disappointment with both teams cancelling each other out HIBS held their own and looked the more likely in the last 20 minutes coming close on a couple of occasions but the match is probably best remembered for the penalty that never was as Rangers goalkeeper Peter McCloy unceremoniously barged into young Colin Campbell when he was clean through on goal It took a brave man to give a penalty against the old firm in Glasgow in the dying minutes and referee McGinlay waved away the HIBS protests

The attendance was affected by live TV coverage with only 53615 attending

Also worth mentioning the amount of violence and abuse the HIBS support was subjected to throughout the seventies from the Hun horde was unacceptable once again many of our supporters buses would return from Glasgow minus their windows

The match went to a replay on the Wednesday night which once again finished 0-0 after extra time the best chance of the match falling to young Gordon Rae in extra time who seemed to hesitate and the chance was lost

The match went to a second replay which was delayed for 12 days because of the Scotland v England international

The third match started well for HIBS who were the better team and took the lead through Tony Higgins only for Rangers to peg them back Rangers then went ahead just after half time only for HIBS to equalise with an Ally MacLeod penalty with 12 minutes to go

Into extra-time and Jim McArthur saved a Rangers penalty taken by future HIBS boss Alex Miller only for HIBS to go up the park and hit the post. In cruel fashion however the HIBS Scottish Cup Final curse struck once again when long time club servant Arthur Duncan in trying to prevent a curling Davy Cooper cross to the back post reaching a waiting Rangers player he could only succeed in heading the ball into his own goal

Hibs McArthur Brazil Duncan Bremner Stewart McNamara Hutchinson MacLeod Callachan Campbell and Higgins

Sub Rae







12/5/1965 Summer Cup Group 4 Hearts A 2-2

Cormack
Martin


12/5/1953 Coronation Cup First Round Replay Tottenham Hotspur N 2-1

Reilly 2




12/5/1950 Challenge Match

Bayern Munich 1 v 6 Hibernian

Smith 2
Reilly
Souness
Ormond
Johnstone


Only a friendly but such was the standing of HIBS in Europe they were very much sought after for these games because of their reputation for fast exciting entertaining attacking football

The Bayern side was skippered by future West German 1954 World Cup Winning captain Hans Bauer




The above match was part of a post season tour of Austria Germany and Switzerland the results being:

4/5/1950 Rapid Vienna 3 v 2 Hibernian

Turnbull
Ormond

6/5/1950 Linzer AC 1 v 3 Hibernian

Smith
Turnbull
Ormond

10/5/1950 Augsburg 2 v 4 Hibernian

Turnbull
Reilly
Smith
Ormond

12/5/1950 Bayern Munich 1 v 6 Hibernian

18/5/1950 Muhlburg Karlsruhe 0 v 3 hibernian

Smith
Aird
Johnstone

20/5/1950 Berne 0 v 1 Hibernian

Johnstone





Hibernian FC On This Day Colquhoun and Sinnet

What kept you HIBS? James Stephen

Gordon Smith Prince of Wingers Tony Smith






Birthdays

John Blackley





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The Girvan Lighthouse brings down Colin Campbell in the box in the final minutes of the 1979 Scottish Cup Final

How that wisnae a penalty I will never know?

Some things never change

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The Girvan Lighthouse brings down Colin Campbell in the box in the final minutes of the 1979 Scottish Cup Final

How that wisnae a penalty I will never know?

Some things never change

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Clear penalty. 🙄

https://youtu.be/5GNIcayXleU

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13/5/2018 Scottish League Premiership

Hibernian 5 v 5 The Rangers

Kamberi pen
Allan
MacLaren 3

Jamie MacLaren netted a dramatic late equaliser to claim his hat-trick as Hibernian and Rangers shared ten goals in the Easter Road sunshine with the Easter Road side registering their highest ever points total in the top flight in the process

Hibs had to win this match by five goals and raced into an unassailable three goal lead thanks to a Kamberi penalty when MacLaren was pulled down in the box a Scott Allan tap in from a Slivka cut back from a Lewis Stevenson cross and a brilliantly executed MacLaren header from another Stevenson cross

Hibernian almost added the fourth goal they so badly needed but Alnwick pulled off a fantastic save from Whittaker’s strike from John McGinn’s corner The goalkeeper quickly released the ball as Rangers stormed forward on the counter-attack and when Holt rolled the ball into the path of Tavernier he quickly dispatched it behind Rocky

Hibs were undone again when Jamie Murphy threaded a brilliant ball through to Rossiter who drilled it low into the far corner of the net.

Jamie MacLaren was just denied at the other end when he latched onto a stray ball in the Rangers box but Bates got a foot in just in time to concede a corner

Seven minutes from half-time Bruno Alves squared the match when he curled in a stunning free-kick from 25 yards. Jason Cummings almost gave Rangers the lead just before half-time when he latched onto an Ambrose mistake rounded Rocky but thankfully Ambrose got back to clear the danger

Into the second half and Rangers found themselves 5-3 ahead thanks to two fortuitous deflected Jason Holt strikes That should have been it but in typical fashion McGinn drove deep into the Rangers half fed Slivka who teed it up for Jamie MacLaren for a comfortable finish

A remarkable game continued to flow from end to end and with 13 minutes left Hibernian survived a real let off when Whittaker appeared to handle in the box before Darren MacGregor cleared Jamie Murphy’s net bound shot off the line

With five minutes remaining Rangers were reduced to 10 men when Jason Holt was dismissed for a second bookable offence for pulling back John McGinn

In the final minute Alnwick produced a stunning save from McGeouch as Hibernian turned the screw on the beleaguered Rangers defence

Easter Road erupted deep into time added on when Jamie MacLaren turned home a low Brandon Barker cross at the near post high into the Rangers net

HIBS Rocky Whittaker Ambrose Hanlon McGinn Slivka McGeouch Stevenson MacLaren S Allan and Kamberi

Subs Barker for Allan 65 McGregor for Ambrose 70 Swanson for Stevenson 86

Unused Gray Bartley Dabrowski and Allan

Att 19579


https://youtu.be/_xbjgsv3o0c


13/5/2016 Scottish Championship Play-Off Semi Final 2nd Leg

Falkirk 3 v 2 Hibernian ( Agg 5-4 )

Keatings 2


A jaw dropping last second Bob McHugh goal put Falkirk into the play-off final to play Kilmarnock

On a night of high drama Falkirk took the lead through a Blair Alston strike James Keatings pulled two back for the Hibees the first from the penalty spot

Luke Leahy struck an equaliser before Hibs’ Jason Cummings thumped the bar Extra time beckoned but in the last act McHugh turned on a long throw in to thump the ball into the HIBS net


https://youtu.be/n_8vWn3Xaq0



13/5/2009 Scottish League SPL

HIBS 1 v 1 Rangers

Riordan

Rangers failed to claim top spot in the SPL after fighting back to earn a draw in a pulsating encounter at Easter Road Derek Riordan gave HIBS the lead with a splendid curling strike Nacho Novo thought he had equalised but the Assistant Referee said the ball had not crossed the line

The Spaniard did grab a leveller 10 minutes from the end but HIBS held on to claim a point



13/5/2001 Scottish League SPL Hearts H 0-0


13/5/1995 Scottish League Premier Division Kilmarnock A 2-1

McGinlay
Wright

Hibs finished third in this season getting knocked out of the Scottish Cup by Celtic in a replayed semi-Final at Ibrox


13/5/1989 Scottish League Premier Division Dundee H 1-1

Findlay

Hibs’ final game of the season they would finish fifth and reached the Scottish Cup semi-final where they lost 3-1 to Celtic Stevie Archibald scoring for HIBS


13/5/1964 Summer Cup Group 4 Hearts H 1-0

Stan Vincent


Hibs won this dreary encounter against the section leaders thanks to a Stan Vincent goal

Hibs under the guidance of Jock Stein were starting to climb back up through the section and would end up tying with Dunfermline Athletic for second place and would face a winner takes all play-off at Tynecastle Park


Birthdays

Neil Orr


At Easter Road They Play. John Campbell










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The match that launched the ‘aeroplane’

So near yet so far





Birthdays:

Gregorz Szamotulski

Derek Whiteford

Sammy Baird RIP

Grant Stott

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14/5/2011 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 1 v 3 Aberdeen

Riordan

This would be Derek Riordan’s last game for HIBS

The start of the game was preceded by a minutes applause for the late Eddie Turnbull who had served both clubs so well as Manager and spent his whole playing career with Hibernian

Derek Riordan gave HIBS the lead in the first half but a Josh Maginnis header early into the second half followed by a Chris Maguire double gave the Dons all three points despite HIBS coming close hitting the crossbar and the post


Thanks for the memories Deek!

https://youtu.be/cNi_g16Ra_U



14/5/2005 Scottish League SPL Aberdeen H 1-2

Riordan


14/5/2000 Scottish League SPL Dundee A 0-1


14/5/1994 Scottish League Premier Division Kilmarnock H 0-0


14/5/1983 Scottish League Premier Division Aberdeen A 0-5




Birthdays

John Madsen

Alan Gordon RIP

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Not a good day at the Office for Hibernian Football Club

Onwards and upwards

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15/5/2013 Scottish League SPL

Kilmarnock 1 v 3 Hibernian

Robertson
Doyle 2

This was a re-arranged fixture as the previous fixture was abandoned after a Kilmarnock fan very sadly collapsed and passed away later in Hospital when the scores were tied at 1-1

Hibs rested Leigh Griffiths with the Scottish Cup Final in mind Kilmarnock played a young team and Lewis Stevenson captained the side

Scott Robertson opened the scoring prodding the ball into the net from close range to claim his first goal for the club. Scott Robertson then added what he thought was a second but this was correctly ruled out as he was adjudged to have used a hand

Kilmarnock flew out the traps in the second half with Paul Heffernan going close. Murdoch in the HIBS goal did well to get down to a Lee Ashcroft header but he could do little about his next attempt a looping back post header that secured Kilmarnock’s equaliser and marked his debut with his first goal for the club

The home side were almost in front moments later when substitute Borja Perez’s strike hit the post and Heffernan connected with the rebound but the ball flew over. Eoin Doyle then headed the ball home but for the second time the referee ruled out a HIBS strike this time for offside

With Kilmarnock looking the more likely in the closing stages as they surged forward HIBS hit them with a late double whammy Alex Harris powered the ball across the face of the goal and Doyle stretched to poke the ball home to claim his 10th goal of the season and in the dying moments as Kilmarnock searched in vain for an equaliser Doyle powered home from 12 yards to secure all three points

Hibs Murdoch Maybury Hanlon Forster Stevenson Thomson Deegan Wotherspoon Robertson Doyle and Handling

Subs Horribine for Thomson 63 Harris for Wotherspoon 64 McGivern for Deegan 73

Unused Grant Caldwell Donaldson Done

Att 3198


https://youtu.be/GxutLUyxViQ



15/5/2004 Scottish League SPL

Livingston 4 v 1 Hibernian

Doumbe



Hibs under interim boss Gerry McCabe faced their arch nemesis Livingston FC they had played them five times this season and lost four including the League Cup Final



15/5/1993 Scottish League Premier Division

Hibernian 0 v 1 Partick Thistle


Gareth Evans sent off

The last game of the season HIBS would finish seventh in this season

This game would mark John Burridge’s last game for Hibernian He would retire from HIBS a League Cup winner and Hibernian’s oldest ever player at 41 years 163 days the only player that would do a lap of honour for the fans at the end of every game to thank them just for turning up and what about them warm-ups?


In true Budgie style that was not the end of the story he went on to sign for :

Newcastle United Scarborough Lincoln City Enfield Aberdeen Newcastle United (again) Dunfermline Athletic Dumbarton Falkirk Manchester City Notts County Witton Albion Darlington Grimsby Town Gateshead Northampton Town Queen of the South Purfleet Blyth Spartans Scarborough and Blyth Spartans again as Player Manager currently Goalkeeping Coach at Kerala Blasters in the Indian Super League



https://youtu.be/BRulE9858eE




15/5/1982 Scottish League Premier Division

Morton 0 v 0 Hibernian

Manager: Bertie Auld. :greengrin





15/5/1965 Summer Cup Group 4

Hibernian 1 v 2 Dunfermline Athletic

Neil Martin

Dunfermline gain revenge for the recent 2-0 defeat at East End when Willie Hamilton scored a brace

HIBS would qualify for the semi-final




15/5/1963 Scottish League Division One

Queen of the South 0 v 4 Hibernian

Scott
Stevenson
Baker 2

Hibs were flirting with relegation and won this game in hand they had over fellow relegation candidates Clyde thanks to an early goal to relax the nerves and the backing of a large, noisy and vociferous HIBS support

To ensure survival HIBS had to guarantee three points from their last two games the first part had been achieved they now had to travel to already relegated Raith Rovers whereas Clyde had to get a result against Rangers at home






Birthdays



Derek Anderson








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Birthdays:

Andy Murray 34

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16/5/1979 Scottish Cup Final Replay

hibernian 0 v 0 Rangers AET

A dull match played in wet and windy conditions in which both sides had chances to score but could not provide a winner after extra time so both teams will have to return to Hampden Park for a second replay on Monday 28th May 1979

Honourable mention to Jackie MacNamara who was a rock for us at the back over the three games. 17 year old Stephen Brown looked a real prospect when he came on in this game but sadly he was not to make it at HIBS and I remember Colin Campbell and Gordon Rae both having opportunities to score

We only needed one goal to win it ???

Hibs McArthur Brazil Duncan Bremner Stewart MacNamara Rae MacLeod Campbell Callachan and Higgins Sub: Brown

Att 32854






16/5/1964 Summer Cup Group 4

Dunfermline Athletic 1 v 1 Hibernian

Leishman

This match produced an identical result to the reverse fixture 10 days earlier at Easter Road with Tommy Leishman scoring at the right end this time to equalise Harry Melroses’ opener for the pars

Willie Wilson in the HIBS goal had a wonderful game pulling off a series of excellent saves including a double penalty save

Hibs would go all the way in this competition under the guidance of Jock Stein

Hibs Wilson Fraser Leishman Stanton McNamee J Stevenson J Scott Martin Vincent ORourke and Baxter








16/5/1953 Coronation Cup Semi Final

hibernian 4 v 0 Newcastle United

Turnbull 2
Reilly
Johnstone

HIBS were into the semi-final after defeating Tottenham Hotspur after a replay and faced hot favourites Newcastle United who had defeated Aberdeen 4-2 in the previous round

Newcastle started brightly enough and Tommy Younger pulled off two outstanding saves to deny them but HIBS turned on a virtuoso display of fast interchanging attacking football that was a joy to behold and Newcastle could not cope.

Eddie Turnbull opened the scoring for HIBS in the 16th minute and then turned provider to set up Lawrie Reilly who made it two before the break. Newcastle missed a first half penalty which might have put a different complexion on things but it was not to be as the second half continued in the same format as the first with Bobby Johnstone finishing off a neat three man move and Eddie Turnbull completing the scoring before the end to give HIBS a decisive and convincing 4-0 victory

In the other semi-final Celtic pulled off a shock to defeat Manchester United 2-1 to set up a battle of the greens in the final of the Coronation Cup at Hampden Park on 20th May 1953


Hibs Younger Govan Howie Buchanan Paterson Combe Smith Johnstone Reilly Turnbull and Ormond

Newcastle Simpson Batty Cowell Harvey Brennan Crowe White Mulgrew Milburn Hannah and Mitchell

Att 35000

Ibrox Park



At Easter Road They Play. John Campbell











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Only the three games on this day

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Only the three games on this day

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Slightly surprising given the age of our club, but I suppose that a lot of seasons would be over by now.

16/5/1951 Friendly International Challenge Match

Scotland 1 v 0 France

Reilly 78

France were much the better side playing the better football keeping the ball on the deck, hitting the crossbar in four minutes and having a goal disallowed for an infringement in 67 minutes

Scotland did not respond well to being outplayed for long periods of the game and four or five players should hang their heads in shame for their behaviour in this international friendly

Scotland did not deserve to win but they scored what proved to be the winner when Redpath was allowed to run with the ball unchallenged from his own box before sending over a cross for Lawrie Reilly to gloriously head home. A goal that had to be seen to to be believed

The French heads seemed to go down after this loss and Newcastle’s Bobby Mitchell missed the easiest of chances from close range when his effort hit the post


Scotland Cowan Young Cox Scoular Woodburn Redpath Waddell Johnstone Reilly Steel and Mitchell

France Dakowski Huguet Marche Bonifaci Jonquet Cuissard Alpsteg Strappe Baratte Kargu and Haan

Att 74412

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17/5/2009 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 0 v 0 Celtic

Hibs dealt a mortal blow to Gordon Strachan’s Celtic sides’ Championship hopes with this no scoring draw at Easter Road after holding Celtic’s fellow title contenders Rangers 1-1 in midweek thanks to a Derek Riordan strike.

HIBS defended stoutly for long periods of this game their best chance being a Steven Fletcher over-head scissors kick that Artur Boruc did well to save

Celtic now trail Rangers by two points with one game remaining Celtic face Hearts at home and Rangers travel to Tannadice where Dundee United need one point to be sure of a Europa League place

Hibs would finish sixth and Manager Mixu Paatelainen would resign at the end of the season


Full match

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17/5/2003 Scottish League SPL

Livingston 1 v 2 Hibernian

Scott Brown 2

Scott Brown scored in the 38th and 69th minutes Fernando Pasquinelli pulled one back for Livvy in the 87th minute

Hibs finished seventh in this season Broonie obviously still being utilised as a forward bottom club Motherwell who finished 12th were spared from relegation as First Division Champions Falkirk did not have a suitable ground





17/5/1997 Premier Division Play-Offs Final Leg 1

Hibernian 1 v 0 Airdrieonians

Cooper og

Hibs had finished ninth in this season and now faced a winner takes all two legged affair against Alex MacDonald’s First Division runner’s up Airdrieonians to hang onto their Premiership status.

From a HIBS point of view Airdrieonians were the worst possible opponents we could face in a play-off situation

They were an awkward squad full of ex-jambos who were dead set on taking HIBS’ place in the old Premier Division they were a team of real scrappers, in your face, niggly and determined to win their own battles all over the pitch at all costs. I am convinced that if Airdrie could pick one team to play in a two legged affair to play in a play-off situation from the top ten it would have been us as we were on a steep downward trajectory under Jim Duffy and Airdrieonians had given us significant problems in cup tie situations in the past

I don’t think I have ever been so nervous going to a football match at Easter Road it was a tense brutal affair with no quarter given or asked played in a very nasty hostile poisonous atmosphere any actual football on display being at a premium as an intense war of attrition developed between both the sides

Luckily HIBS won this game thanks to an unfortunate own goal by the late Steve Cooper but would a slender one goal lead be enough to take through to the away leg?

Gordon Hunter would get sent off in the battle of Easter Road in what would prove to be his last game for HIBS

Airdrieonians would find themselves all square within sixty seconds of a do or die winner takes all second leg battle at Broadwood



Hibs Leighton Renwick Hughes Welsh McQuilken Hunter Tosh McGinlay Dow Jackson and Wright

Subs Lavety and Power

Att 15308




17/5/1947 Scottish League Division One Old

Falkirk 2 v 3 Hibernian

Johnstone
Stirling
Peat

Hibs would finish runners up in the league and Scottish Cup in this season



17/5/1902 Glasgow Charity Cup First Round

Rangers 0 v 1 Hibernian

Atherton

As Scottish Cup winners HIBS were invited to contest the Glasgow Charity Cup and they could not get away from Rangers being drawn against them at Cathkin Park in the first round on Saturday 17th May

Having no fear or respect for the Scottish Champions Hibernian immediately went on the attack and the early pressure immediately saw them score but you’ve guessed it it was disallowed for off-side. There was no holding HIBS however and Bobby Atherton gave them a 0-1 half-time lead

In the second half Rangers play was of the highest quality but they just could not break down the resolute HIBS defence they even missed their obligatory penalty

The HIBS team that day was Harry Rennie Archie Gray Jimmy Hogg Barney Breslin Jimmy Harrower Alex Robertson Bobby Atherton Andy McGeachan Johnny Divers Paddy Callaghan and Jimmy Buchan

Hibs would go on to defeat Morton 3-0 in the semi-final at Tynecastle and defeat Celtic in the final 6-2 at Hampden


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Inducted into the HIBS Hall of Fame 2012


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Birthdays:

Torben Joneleit


Well worth watching the excellent YouTube tribute link to Birthday Boy Keith Wright 56 above


Many thanks to John Sparky 2


Many Happy Returns Keith



Keith! Keith! Keith! Keith!

17/5/1981 Friendly Challenge Match

San Jose Earthquakes 2 v 4 Hibernian

Gordon Rae 3
Gary Murray

George Best with a double for the Earthquakes

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18/5/2013 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 1 v 0 Dundee

Wotherspoon

This match appeared to be in doubt one hour before kick-off as Leith was hit by a freak torrential downpour The torrent soon passed and HIBS faced bottom club Dundee in their last League game before facing Celtic in the Scottish Cup Final on Sunday 26th May 2013.

HIBS centre-forward Leigh Griffiths would play his last League game for HIBS and would return to parent club Wolverhampton Wanderers after the cup final

A win for the home side would guarantee them seventh place and HIBS dominated the first half Jordon Forster heading over from a Griffiths corner and the Wolves’ hitman almost got his 29th goal of the season when his angled drive drew a good save from Dundee goalkeeper Simonsen. Griffiths followed up and his effort appeared to hit a Dundee arm but the referee waved play-on

After the break the visitors began positively John Baird finding Lewis Toshney in the HIBS box but the on-loan Celt hooked over. A wonderful Hanlon pass over the dark blues defence allowed Griffiths to chest and volley wide before Stevenson sliced high and wide from Harris’s pass

Dundee almost ended their SPL campaign in style. Harkins’s deep cross was taken left footed on the volley by Conroy from 12 yards and the ball flashed back across Ben Williams’s goal missing the post by inches

Griffiths left the field of play in the 73rd minute to a standing ovation to be replaced by Chesterfield bound Eoin Doyle but the goal when it came came from an unlikely source when with 11 minutes to go substitute David Wotherspoon met a Lewis Stevenson cross on the edge of the box and powered home a Zidane like bullet header into the goalkeepers bottom right hand corner to stake his claim for a starting place a week on Sunday

Hibs Williams Maybury Hanlon Forster McGivern Claros Stevenson Taiwo Harris Caldwell and Griffiths

Subs Doyle for Griffiths 73 Wotherspoon for Harris 75 Robertson for Taiwo 83

Unused Murdoch Done Handling Deegan

Att 9522


https://youtu.be/ZWg_WD2FtaE




18/5/1963 Scottish League Division One Old

Raith Rovers 0 v 4 Hibernian

Baxter 2
Fraser
Baker

They were dancing in the streets of Raith and on the park as HIBS and their large travelling support celebrated the completion of their Lazarus act by winning their second consecutive and last game 4-0 against already relegated Raith Rovers. Clyde would lose 1-3 at home to Champions in waiting Rangers to confirm their relegation on Wednesday 22nd May.

Raith had finished on just 9 points Clyde 23 and HIBS 25 improvement was needed and Walter Galbraith’s jacket was hanging on a shoogly peg

Hibs Simpson Cameron McClelland Preston Grant Baxter Scott Fraser Baker ORourke and Stevenson

Att 2858




18/5/1946 Victory Cup QF

Partick Thistle 1 v 1 Hibernian

Milne

Hibs would win the replay at Easter Road 2-0 with Arthur Milne and Alex Wright scoring They would defeat Clyde 2-1 in the semi-final at Tynecastle (Smith pen and Milne) and lose to Rangers in the final 1-3 at Hampden in front of 100000 fans Johnny Aitkenhead scoring for HIBS




18/5/1940 Scottish Regional League Eastern Division

Hibernian 2 v 0 Aberdeen

Mayes 2








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Some goal by David Wotherspoon

I wonder what happened to him?



18/5/1978 Friendly Challenge Match

Calgary Kickers 1 v 4 Hibernian

Macleod 2
Duncan
Higgins

$5 ticket for this game currently on sale on EBay for £199.95



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Josh Doig 19

Did anything ever happen on this day Billy?

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Congratulations

Billy, these have been brilliant. Let's hope that in a years time you are writing about Hibs winning the cup on this day in history. 🇳🇬🤞🇳🇬🤞🇳🇬🤞🇳🇬

Sorry guys but I did not want to spoil the feel good factor on these threads with my stories of heavy defeats in years gone by on recent dates (21/5/2016 excepted)

Hopefully we are on the brink of something really special today and the dawn of a new era

Onwards and upwards

Let’s do this HIBS

GGTTH

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22/5/2008 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 0 v 2 Motherwell

Hibs finished sixth in this season and entered the Intertoto Cup Mixu Paatelainen replaced John Collins who resigned in the January after a series of poor results which followed a great unbeaten start that took HIBS temporarily to the top of the SPL

Hibs had sold Scott Brown Ivan Sproule Steven Whittaker and David Murphy for a total of 8.5m and lost Chris Killen and Michael Stewart on free transfers

John Collins had replaced them with Brian Kerr Clayton Donaldson Alan OBrien Yves Makalambay Thierry Guthessi Filipe Morais Mickael Antoine Curier Patrick Noubissie Ian Murray John Rankin Colin Nish Aberraouff Zarabi and Martin Canning for a total of £500000






22/5/2005 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 0 v 1 Rangers

The last half hour of this final game of the season brought back memories of the infamous World Cup match between West Germany v Austria where both sides sat back with both teams apparently happy with the score as it stood.

Rangers had taken the lead after Nacho Novo had opened the scoring on 59 minutes via a deflection off HIBS defender Gary Caldwell

All ears were glued to transistor radios as Rangers had to win to have any chance of snatching the title from Celtic who would incredibly lose their final game at Motherwell

Hibs who finished in third position qualifying for the UEFA Cup needed to avoid a heavy defeat to prevent Aberdeen overtaking them on goal difference

A lot of HIBS fans at the time were not happy as they felt we had the forwards to cause Rangers problems and should have just went for it besides we were starting to get fed up of other teams celebrating title wins at Easter Road

Aberdeen beat Hearts 2-0 but we were back in Europe







22/5/1997 Premier Division Play-Offs Final Leg 2

Airdrieonians 2 v 4 Hibernian ( Agg 2-5 )

Jackson 2 pens
Tosh
Wright

After the battle of Easter Road HIBS arrived at Broadwood for this play-off showdown 1-0 up thanks to an own goal from Steve Cooper

Such was the importance of this game to Hibernian Football Club I looked behind me shortly before kick off and there sat three HIBS legends together Pat Stanton Lawrie Reilly and Joe Baker

This HIBS feel good factor was destroyed within 90 seconds of the kick off however when HIBS found themselves one goal down and Airdrieonians were level on aggregate

Jamie McQuilken inadvertently found Forbes Johnston with a clearance Jim Leighton came for his cross to make a routine save Big John Hughes headed the ball out of his hands ball drops to Paddy Connolly 1-0 Airdrie

Thereafter the game continued in the same brutal vein as the first leg with the emphasis being on the physical side of the game and the basic tactic being thump it hard thump it wide thump it high and if you can take the man as well so much the better a real battle for survival the only subtlety or signs of any football coming from Darren Jackson and Paddy Connolly

Airdrieonians were all over HIBS as the half wore on and one doubted that if HIBS conceded another they would be able to come back

Jim Leighton had his work cut out and was performing miracles until he got knocked out cold after a sickening clash of heads with Steve Cooper

Things looked to have got a lot worse for HIBS when they conceded a penalty in 34 minutes Referee Willie Young awarding the kick when a Johnston shot struck Brian Welsh’s hand in the box Up stepped Steve Cooper to redeem himself for his og at Easter Road such was his enthusiasm and eagerness to score he could only succeed in hitting the ball with all his might over the crossbar and into Row Z

22 seconds into the second half and Referee Young awarded HIBS a penalty after Jimmy Sandison was softly adjudged to have pulled back Pat McGinlay but a penalty it was and Darren Jackson stepped up to show Airdrie how a penalty should be taken

Airdrie suffered a blow in 55 minutes when Gary Mackay was stretchered off to be replaced by Brian McPhee who only took 3 minutes to get booked

Midway through the second half HIBS were awarded a second penalty when Brian Grant and Davies contested a Paul Tosh cross in the box and the Airdrie man was adjudged to have handled no protest up stepped Darren Jackson cool as you like 2-1 HIBS

Four minutes later Airdrie knew they were staying in the First Division. Grant played the ball through to Tosh in space who had run through from the half-way line his first attempt was parried by Rhodes but he wasted no time in burying the rebound into the empty net

Jimmy Sandison already booked and realising he would not be seeing old adversary Pat McGinlay again for another season decided to elbow him in the face and the Airdrie captain was immediately shown the red card

HIBS rubbed salt into the Airdrie wounds when substitute Keith Wright in his last appearance for HIBS rose unchallenged to meet a superb Darren Jackson cross and bullet a typical header into the net to make it 4-1 for HIBS on the night and at last we could relax

With just two minutes left Hughes handled a Connolly cross in the box and Kenny Black stepped up to score Airdrie’s consolation

Like the first leg this was a rough house game of football with eight bookings ( five for Airdrie) one sending off and four penalties awarded

A game where Airdrie’s rough style of football for once backfired and came back to haunt them

From a HIBS point of view they had held onto their top-flight status and had Darren Jackson Jim Leighton Pat McGinlay and Keith Wright to thank for pulling them out of the fire worryingly only one of them would be at Easter Road in the following season


Hibs Leighton Renwick McQuilken Grant Hughes and Welsh Tosh Dow Power Jackson and McGinlay

Subs Lavety Wright and Harper

Att 7560









22/5/1965 Summer Cup Semi-Final Leg 1

Hibernian 2 v 0 Motherwell

Cormack
Stevenson

Things looked promising for HIBS in their defence of the Summer Cup thanks to a couple of cracking goals from Peter Cormack and Eric Stevenson to give them a two goal advantage going into the second leg

They would play Motherwell at Fir Park in four days time

What could go wrong ?








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21/5/2016 Scottish Cup Final

The Rangers 2 v 3 Hibernian

Stokes 2
Gray

A late David Gray header saw Hibernian beat Rangers to end a tortuous 114 year wait to lift the Scottish Cup

Anthony Stokes scored twice for HIBS either side of goals from Kenny Miller and Andy Halliday Then Gray headed in the winner before HIBS and their fans celebrated a timeless triumph

Hibs started off as though the Managers’ instructions were still ringing in their ears The strategy was that the three centre backs would stifle the corridors of space that Rangers look to exploit in attack while heavy pressing would disrupt the rhythm of Mark Warburton’s side

The planning was meticulous but an immediate advantage would not have been anticipated There was a committed intent that enthused HIBS ‘ play It was evident in the way that Stokes clattered into Jason Holt in the first minute but also in the way the striker drove into the Rangers penalty area and expertly placed a shot beyond Wes Foderingham

Rangers players were immediately subdued although some might have been feeling an element of culpability Halliday and James Tavernier had failed to win the ball from John McGinn while Rob Kiernan allowed Stokes the time and space to measure his options

Stokes naturally drifts out left but this natural instinct would have been encouraged by Stubbs since the space between Tavernier and Kiernan is the most vulnerable area of the Rangers defence

The extent of Rangers unease could be measured by the raggedness of their play passes went astray and possession was cheaply discarded.

Rangers’ whole philosophy under Mark Warburton was to keep the ball and retain possession and it was a departure from this philosophy that brought them level Foderingham’s kick up the park was won by Miller allowing Barrie McKay to gather possession and carry the ball across the field where he found Tavernier the full back immediately swept a cross into the box from deep and Miller leapt ahead of HIBS defender Darren MacGregor to plant a header past Conrad Logan

Flaws made this game exhilarating The defending was so inept at times that opportunities were inevitable Stokes sent an effort bouncing off a post then Miller won another header in the HIBS box that cannoned off the crossbar

Stokes was irrepressible at times at least when faced with Tavernier who had little answer to his forward runs Stokes cut inside the fullback early in the second half but his effort was pushed away by Foderingham That was to be a redeeming feature of the game but it was Rangers who took the lead

Halliday was allowed the room to shape to shoot around 25 yards out but his effort was fierce and true and the ball flew past Conrad Logan into the far side of the net The onus was now on the HIBS players to respond and to dig deep within themselves to find the means and to do it quickly it truly was time for heroes

The introduction of Liam Henderson made an impact not least because of his set piece deliveries From one Stokes muscled Tavernier aside to head in at the near post It was from another corner kick again from Henderson that Gray scored his historic momentous winning goal before surging off towards the fans to celebrate

Hibs Logan McGregor Hanlon Fontaine Gray Fyvie McGeouch McGinn Stevenson Stokes and Cummings

Subs Keatings for Cummings 65 Henderson for Fontaine 70 Gunnarsson for Hanlon 83

Unused Oxley Bartley Boyle and Dagnall

Att 50701


https://youtu.be/OcLhUiYrZhA




21/5/2014 Premiership Play-Off Final First Leg

Hamilton Academicals 0 v 2 Hibernian

Cummings 2

Hibs went into this match having only won once in the last 19 games whereas Hamilton had only lost one in 15 games

Step up young Jason Cummings 18 who scored the first two goals of his career either side of half-time

His first was a superb 25 yard strike in 39 minutes that Cuthbert in the Hamilton goal appeared to have covered but the ball did seem to swerve in mid-air cue celebrations and relief amongst the large travelling support

The second half was barely 10 minutes old when Cummings added his second a run and cross by Heffernan ended with the ball landing at the teenager’s feet inside the penalty area who showed the presence of mind to look up under extreme pressure and chip the ball over the advancing goalkeeper and over the line Ziggy Gordon did manage to scramble back and boot the ball away to safety but TV evidence later showed that the ball had crossed the line by at least two feet and the officials were correct to award the goal

Hibs managed to repel intense Hamilton pressure and held out for an unexpected but welcome 0-2 win to take into the second leg at Easter Road

What could go wrong?

Hibs Williams Maybury Stevenson Craig Nelson McGivern Harris Robertson Cummings Stanton and Heffernan

Subs Cairney for Cummings 85 Tudur Jones for Robertson 90

Unused Collins Forster Murdock Haynes and Thomson

Att 5322








21/5/2000 Scottish League SPL

Hearts 2 v 1 Hibernian

Paatelainen


Hibs were back in the SPL under Alex McLeish this was their last game of the season a season in which they finished a respectable sixth

Mixu scored with a brave header on the line -after the ball had hit the post from a McGinlay header -to equalise Jaunjo’s earlier strike. Hearts only needed a point to guarantee a UEFA place and they secured all three with Gary McSwegans late flicked header. Martin McIntosh was sent off for a second bookable offence when he pulled down Mickey Cameron



21/5/1981 Challenge Match

Haiti International XI 1 v 0 Hibernian







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25/5/2014 Scottish Premiership Play-Off Final 2nd Leg

Hibernian 0 v 2 Hamilton Academicals Agg: 2-2 ( Hamilton won 4-3 on pens AET )

Hibs crashed out of the Scottish Premiership after losing this play-off final second leg at home on penalty kicks

Terry Butcher’s spectacular run of bad form as HIBS Manager was ended thanks to Jason Cummings’ wonderful strikes at New Douglas Park in midweek to give HIBS a two goal advantage going into this winner takes all decider

HIBS decided to play one striker upfront, Paul Heffernan and deployed Jason Cummings as an extra midfielder Butcher also gave a start to onloan forward Danny Haynes ahead of the off form teenager Alex Harris but he had to be replaced by Harris after only six minutes after a crunching Jon Routledge challenge so HIBS were back to their midweek line-up

Six minutes later and the ball was swiftly dispatched into the HIBS net following a misplaced pass by Ryan McGivern. Ali Crawford’s interception was flicked on by Routledge to Jason Scotland whose quick turn mugged Michael Nelson before the striker’s left foot drive from just inside the box slipped under Ben Williams’ outstretched hand

Accies could smell the fear in the Stadium and as in the first leg continued to play the better controlled possession football. HIBS -who had not been performing well at home since the closure of the old East Stand back in 2010 - relied on the long hopeful ball up to Heffernan hoping for a chink in the second tier defence. This ploy almost worked as the natives grew more and more nervous Heffernan having a goal ruled out for off-side and Jason Cummings having a close range header cleared off the line shortly after Williams had saved a net bound Louis Longridge drive with an outstretched foot

Into the second half and Butcher pushed Cummings up front to join Heffernan in search of a tension releasing equaliser this reduction in midfield manpower however left HIBS’ creaking defence exposed and Williams had to be quick off his line to block a Scotland shot after his quick turn left two HIBS defenders going the other way as he bore down on goal

The match wore on and Accies continued to play the tidier controlled football Accies Manager Alex Neil brought himself on to control the tempo of the game and HIBS responded by introducing veteran Kevin Thomson for substitute Alex Harris

The clock was ticking down and after 83 minutes Heffernan was replaced by Tudor-Jones a player who later publicly admitted that he signed a contract at HIBS knowing his legs were gone ?

Deep into four minutes added on time and Butchers plan to hang on to what we had back-fired spectacularly when with seconds to go Scotland once again turned Nelson out wide and fired in a low cross that Tony Andreu turned home with his outstretched foot

There was no further scoring in Extra Time and Kevin Thomson and Jason Cummings would miss their penalties cue protests outside the ground and deserved Accies celebrations inside

Terry Butcher is statistically Hibernian’s worst ever Manager his honeymoon bounce lasted three games over Christmas and things started to go pear-shaped when we surrendered a two goal lead at Tannadice. When he took over we were nowhere near relegation lying in seventh position and then we went on a downward spiral we seemed to be incapable of getting a win and no one seemed to notice when Raith Rovers knocked us out of the Scottish Cup 2-3 at home

His man-management, motivational and tactical skills or rather lack of, team selections and accusations of bullying and use of hair brained schemes also being called into question

We were now headed for the second tier where Hearts and The Rangers were waiting for us but perhaps it was a blessing in disguise we had to change the structure of our club after years of mismanagement and get away from short term fixes it was time to regroup we certainly had to find a new Manager and a new squad of players

There is no doubt that relegation was a financial disaster to our club and was an enormous psychological blow to a club and a support who once again had been badly let down

HIBS Williams Maybury Stevenson Craig Nelson McGivern Heffernan Robertson Haynes Stanton and Cummings

Subs Harris for Haynes 8 Thomson for Harris 68 Tudor-Jones for Heffernan 83

Unused Cairney Collins Murdoch and Forster

Att 18031


https://youtu.be/GA4pwg0q9Ms






25/5/1946 Victory Cup Quarter Final Replay

Hibernian 2 v 0 Partick Thistle

Wright
Milne


Hibs won this replay after drawing 1-1 at Firhill with goals from Alex Wright and Arthur Milne

HIBS would go on to defeat Clyde in the semi-final at Tynecastle and lose to Rangers 1-3 in the final at Hampden Park in front of a crowd of 100000 HIBS would have a man sent off



25/5/1895 Scottish League Division Two old

Airdrieonians 2 v 4 Hibernian

Hibs were Second Division Champions for the second successive year but still there was no automatic promotion Hibernian had to campaign all the clubs in the First Division many who were bigoted against the Irishmen and fearful of what a strong Hibernian side could do in the First Division

The press were on our side this was a match report of the above match:

“ I know of no club that can bombard a goal in the style of Hibernian and from some of these terrific rallies Martin, Murray and Murphy scored with shots that you only get from Hibernian With such a magnificent season’s record the public are confident that Hibernian will certainly figure among the elite of the upper ten “

Of the top ten St Bernard’s the Scottish Cup winners confirmed their support whilst Hearts and Leith Athletic dithered but all the clubs in the West and beyond were visited and all confirmed their support Hibernian were finally dining at the top table of the Scottish football elite

Championship medals were issued and the Championship Flag was unfurled of the Irishmens own design

“ green with a yellow harp and no crown with the inscription Hibernian Football Club Erin Go Bragh Scottish League 2nd Division Champions 1894-95”



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Things did not look too good seven years ago today

Like a Phoenix from the ashes Hibernian Football Club would rise to fight another day

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26/5/2013 Scottish Cup Final

Hibernian 0 v 3 Celtic

With Leigh Griffiths clearly not 100% Eoin Doyle was probably our best chance of a goal and he blew his lines with a header that was too close to Fraser Forster in the opening minutes ...unlucky!

After that it was the Anthony Stokes show

A younger leaner meaner fitter Stokes did to us what he was to do against The Rangers three years later though thankfully he did not score laying two goals on a plate for Gary Hooper with whipped in crosses and generally being a pest the whole game

Hooper should have had a hat-trick into the second half but took a fresh air swipe at Lustig’s pass in front of goal but Joe Ledley followed up to hit a rising shot high into Williams’ net to give the score perhaps an unfair reflection but I suppose no one could realistically argue

The large HIBS support were defiant until the end, we would be back, but little did they know there would be even more pain to follow

111 years and counting

Hibs Williams Maybury Hanlon Forster McGivern Claros Taiwo Thomson Harris Doyle and Griffiths

Subs Handling for Doyle 71 Caldwell for Thomson 76 Stevenson for Griffiths 84

Unused Murdoch Robertson

Att 51254


https://youtu.be/_EPknvzqGnY



26/5/2001 Scottish Cup Final

Hibernian 0 v 3 Celtic


Hibs to have any chance of winning this would have to be at their very best to compete with Martin O’Neill’s very strong and physical treble chasing Celtic team Unfortunately, unknown to us mere HIBS fans at the time, Le God looked as though he was carrying an injury and we were without our talismanic midfielder Russell Latapy who had effectively been sacked by the club There was also no place in the squad for Tam McManus who had scored in every round other than the semi-final

Hibs held their own up until Jackie McNamara replaced Lubo Moravcik on 18 minutes he then proceeded to rip us apart scoring on 39 minutes. Larsson added a second just after half-time before finishing the scoring with a soft penalty after being pulled down by Gary Smith with 10 minutes left

99 years and counting

Hibs Colgan Smith Sauzee Fenwick Laursen ONeill Jack Brebner Murray Libbra and Paatelainen

Subs Arpinon Lovell and Zitelli

Att 51824

https://youtu.be/c1FAEO47s9c


26/5/1965 Summer Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg

Motherwell 6 v 2 Hibernian ( Agg 6-4 )

Cormack pen
Quinn

Hibs went into this second leg two goals up from the first leg but Motherwell very quickly reversed this score in ninety minutes

Into extra-time and the wheels very quickly came off the bus for HIBS as despite goals from Cormack ( pen) and Quinn Motherwell added another four of their own to end Hibs’ defence of the trophy

Motherwell would beat Dundee United in the final 3-2 on aggregate

Hibs Wilson Simpson Davis Stanton McNamee and Baxter Scott Quinn ORourke Cormack and Stevenson




26/5/1945 Summer Cup Round 1 1st Leg

St Mirren 4 v 2 Hibernian

Smith 2


Hibs lost this first leg at Love Street but would go on to win the second leg 7-0 at Easter Road

Hibs would lose the final to Partick Thistle at Hampden after defeating Celtic in the semi-final 2-0 at Tynecastle


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26/5/1999 UEFA Champions League Final

Manchester United 2 v 1 Bayern Munich

Sheringham 90+1

Solskjaer 90+3


Man Utd Schmeichel Neville Johnsen Stam Irwin Giggs Beckham Butt Blomquist Yorke and Cole

Subs Sheringham for Blomquist 67 Solskjaer for Cole 81

Att 90245


https://youtu.be/cmtmojTSRR8

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27/5/1964 Summer Cup Semi-Final Leg 1

Kilmarnock 4 v 3 Hibernian

Vincent
Martin
Hamilton

Hibs had reached the semi-final of the Summer Cup under Jock Stein and the first leg was away at Rugby Park and as usual it would prove to be a tricky tie

Kilmarnock scored through a Ronnie Hamilton penalty a John McNamee og and goals from Brian McIlroy and Jackie McInally.

HIBS responded through Vincent Hamilton and Martin and crucially Martin saw Sandy McLaughlin save his late penalty kick but it mattered not a jot as HIBS would go on to defeat Kilmarnock 3-0 at Easter Road three days later and qualify to meet Aberdeen in what would prove to be an epic final

Worth mentioning that after this semi-final at Rugby Park both sets of supporters gave the teams a rousing standing ovation for a good old fashioned entertaining end to end Cup tie

Hibs Wilson Fraser Leishman Stanton McNamee and J Stevenson ORourke Hamilton Vincent Martin and J Scott






27/5/1961 Inter Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final Play-Off

Roma 6 v 0 Hibernian


Hibs had reached the semi-final of the Inter Cities Fairs Cup which would nowadays be the equivalent of the UEFA Cup or the Europa League

Hibs had already played Roma home and away in the semi-final drawing 2-2 at Easter Road and drawing 3-3 in Rome

Based on present day rules HIBS would be in the Final on the away goals rule but back then the venue for the deciding tie in the event of a draw would be decided by the toss of a coin

In his book Davie Gibson states that the Hibernian Directors actually agreed a financial guarantee to return at the end of May which was fine by him as he had thrown a coin in the Trevi Fountain with Johnny MacLeod and Ronnie Simpson hoping to return one day but not on the end of a 6-0 thrashing

Roma won the toss allegedly but the mysterious thing was the tie was to take place a full month after the 3-3 draw in Rome and a month after HIBS’ domestic season had ended

The Italians were still in the middle of their season and the under prepared HIBS team having not played for a month suffered their heaviest ever away defeat in Europe.

Manfreddi scored in the first minute and would add another three both sides would each miss a penalty before Menichelli and Selmosson would complete the scoring for the Italians

The HIBS players treated the whole trip as a holiday as they did not expect to win and according to Eric Stevenson’s book they would go on organised excursions to the Coliseum, The Trevi Fountain and other local landmarks all laid on by the Daily Express.

An Italian family back in Edinburgh had arranged a slap feed with free flowing wine at a top class local restaurant

Many of the players suffered sunburn lying on the beaches under the intense hot summer sun

The big attraction for the Italian fans was of course Joe Baker but little did they or the HIBS fans realise that he had already been sold

Roma would go on to defeat Birmingham City 4-2 in a two legged final a final that if things had been different should have been a Battle of Britain

Hibs Simpson Fraser McClelland Baxter Easton and Baird MacLeod Kinloch Baker Gibson and Stevenson

Att 50000


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Hibs Through and Through Eric Stevenson

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60 years ago today HIBS lost a play-off in the semi-final of what was to become the UEFA Cup against AS Roma after drawing 2-2 at Easter Road and 3-3 in Rome

Petrie ! :confused:

27/5/1902 Glasgow Charity Cup Semi Final

Morton 0 v 3 Hibernian

Callaghan 2
McGeachan

As Scottish Cup holders HIBS were invited to contest the Glasgow Charity Cup

Having knocked out Rangers in Glasgow HIBS now found themselves up against Morton at neutral Tynecastle

Hibs were in confident mood having won the Scottish Cup The East Of Scotland League The McCrae Cup and the Roseberry Charity Cup

Hibs played the same team that had recently defeated Hearts in the Roseberry Cup Final with Barney Breslin replacing the injured Jimmy Harrower

There was no scoring in the first half but HIBS were dealt a cruel blow when Johnny Divers did not reappear for the second half leaving HIBS down to 10 men

Ten Man HIBS however took command of the game with Paddy Callaghan scoring a quick fire double

A third goal from Andy McGeachan finished Morton off but Hibs finished the match with nine men as Bobby Atherton had to retire with a facial injury

So on to the Glasgow Charity Cup Final at Hampden where Hibernian faced Celtic on 31st May who were out for revenge for their recent Scottish Cup Final defeat at Parkhead

Hibs were without the injured Harrower and Divers and things looked bleak on a rain and windswept Hampden Park but a reshuffled HIBS team rose magnificently to the occasion brushing aside Celtic to lead 5-0 at half-time and eventually winning the game 6-2 despite a mini Celtic revival in the second half

The Hibernian goalscorers that day were McGeachan 3, Gray, Callaghan and Breslin

Hibs Rennie Hogg Glen Breslin Gray Robertson Stewart McGeachan Callaghan Atherton and Buchan

This all conquering HIBS side would go on to win the Scottish First Division for the first time the following season 1902-03


The Making of Hibernian The Brave Years Alan Lugton

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28/5/1979 Scottish Cup Final Second Replay

Hibernian 2 v 3 Rangers. AET

Higgins
MacLeod pen

The final instalment of the bore-fest that HIBS so easily could have won

” The first replay was played in dreadful wet conditions and our defence was superb in a match that went to extra time There were no penalty shoot-outs in those days so a second replay took place the following Monday, 28th May

Once again I thought we had our hands on the Cup as we tore Rangers apart in the first half. Tony Higgins put us ahead after 16 minutes but we just could not finish off the Glasgow team Big Derek Johnstone’s equaliser before half-time came off a rebound when Tommy McLean’s 25 yarder took a slight deflection on its way to Jim McArthur who could not hold it.

Johnstone had moved up front and he scored his second after an hour but still we did not give up. The penalty award which allowed us to equalise was soft; McCloy’s offence in the first game was much worse. Ally MacLeod made no mistake and we almost snatched it late on when Bobby Hutchinson who I had sent on to replace Tony Higgins grazed the outside of the post with a shot

Jim McArthur saved a penalty from Alex Miller but in the second half of extra time Davie Cooper swung in a cross and Arthur Duncan dived to try and head clear only for the ball to end up in our net. We had lost the Scottish Cup by an own goal and after 330 minutes of unceasing effort we had nothing to show but losers medals I don’t think Arthur ever forgave himself but he was such a great player for HIBS over the years that no one ever held it against him.”

Eddie Turnbull


77 years and counting


Hibs McArthur Brazil Duncan Bremner Stewart and McNamara MacLeod Rae Campbell Callachan and Higgins

Subs Hutchinson and Brown

Att 27556





28/5/1967 North American League

Hibernian 1 v 1 Cerro

McGraw

The first game of a gruelling 12 game North American tour in which HIBS drew 1-1 with Cerro of Uruguay in the Yankee Stadium New York -played in intense heat -thanks to an Alan McGraw header

Hibs’ next game would be against Eddie Turnbull’s Aberdeen three days later but they would also go on to face Ado Den Haag, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Dundee United, Cagliari, Sunderland ( twice ) Bangu, Stoke City, Shamrock Rovers and Glentoran all in the name of trying to push soccer to the locals

It was also a chance to get in some valuable team bonding and sight-seeing

HIBS played under the name Toronto City
Cerro were the New York Skyliners
Aberdeen were the Washington Whips
Dundee United were Dallas Tornadoes



Hibs Allan Duncan Davis Stanton Madsen and Cousin Quinn Cormack Scott McGraw and Stevenson







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28/5/1978 Tour of Canada

Edmonton All Stars 0 v 7 Hibernian

Man of the Match Tony Higgins


Footage from Scottish Cup Final 1979

https://youtu.be/5GNIcayXleU






Birthdays:

Lilian Martin

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“ What a team that was Seven goals six scorers each and every one of them rightly classed Hibernian legends and of course a manager who was part of the famous five Their memories march on”

Ian Blackford MP

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What a team with joe baker thrown in as well. Look at the crowd though. You forget how small crowds sometimes were againt the smaller teams. Huge crowds v old firm hertz but big drop in other games. Imagine the comments on here nowadays if we had a great team and a home crowd of 6000!

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29/5/1943 Summer Cup First Round First Leg

Hibernian 7 v 0 Partick Thistle

Baxter 2
Cuthbertson 2
Anderson
Smith 2

Partick held out well for the first half-hour even although Bobby Baxter had opened the scoring after only 8 minutes but when Jocky Cuthbertson added a second on 32 minutes their resistance caved in and the floodgates opened Baxter and Cubby again adding goals before half-time

HIBS were imperious and irresistible and went on to totally dominate the second half Gordon Smith grabbing a late double

Hibs would win the second leg 5-2 with Charles McGilvray getting a rare start scoring a hat-trick

St Mirren would go on to defeat Rangers 1-0 in the final at Hampden

Hihs : Brown Shaw Hall Finnigan Baxter Kean Smith McGilvray Anderson Cuthbertson and Caskie

Att: 8000





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29/5/1940 Roseberry Charity Cup Semi Final

Hibernian 2 v 2 St Bernards ( HIBS won 6-2 on corners )

Hibs faced Hearts in the final at Tynecastle Park on 1st June and would triumph 5-2 thanks to a hat-trick from Arthur Milne and a brace from Willie Finnigan

Goalkeeper Jimmy Kerr saved a penalty kick taken by Hearts legend Tommy Walker



The Making of Hibernian The Romantic Years Alan Lugton

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30/5/1964 Summer Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg

Hibernian 3 v 0 Kilmarnock ( Agg 6-4 )

Martin 2
Vincent

After losing the first leg 3-4 in an entertaining game at Rugby Park HIBS welcomed Kilmarnock to Easter Road and 18000 fans turned up expecting more of the same

Two goals by the brilliant Neil Martin in either half sandwiched in between a strike from Stan Vincent put paid to Killie’s hopes but special mention must be made to Willie Wilson, Pat Stanton and John McNamee who were outstanding in defence on the night

The Final would be a two legged affair against Aberdeen who had defeated Partick Thistle 3-2 on aggregate in the other semi but the Final would be put on hold until 1st of August due to a typhoid outbreak in the town

The HIBS players could relax and go on holiday

Hibs : Wilson Fraser Leishman Stanton McNamee J Stevenson ORourke Hamilton Vincent Martin and Scott



30/5/1942 Summer Cup Round One

Hibernian 2 v 1 Clyde

Milne 2

HIBS began their defence of the Summer Cup with this win at Easter Road

They would go on to lose a brutal hard fought final to Rangers at Hampden Park after extra time on the toss of a coin



Birthdays


Pat McGinlay

Calum Booth





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30/5/1978 Tour of Canada

Manitoba All Stars 0 v 6 Hibernian

Ally MacLeod 4

George Stewart 2



30/5/1956 Friendly Challenge Match

Basle 2 v 1 Hibernian

Frye

Hibs opened the scoring through John Frye Stauble equalised for the hosts

With minutes to go the Referee confused everyone in the ground when he awarded the hosts a penalty Hugi scoring from the spot

Att 5000




30/5/1948 Tour of Belgium

Antwerp 2 v 1 Hibernian

Hibs play under floodlights for the very first time and play with a white ball for the very first time

The hosts presented Gordon Smith with a Birthday Cake to celebrate his recent birthday

When the cake was cut inside was a miniature footballer wearing a maroon top :confused:


30(5/1906 Roseberry Charity Cup Final

Hearts 0 v 2 Hibernian


30/5/1904 Roseberry Charity Cup Final

Hearts 3 v 0 Hibernian

Hibs played Hearts ten times in this season the best they could manage was two draws


30/5/1903 Roseberry Charity Cup Final

Hibernian 3 v 1 Leith Athletic










Birthdays:


Stuart McCaffrey

1/8/2020 Scottish League Premiership

Hibernian 2 v 1 Kilmarnock

Boyle 5 34

https://youtu.be/cXKORqsaCcU


Hibs got off to the perfect start in their 2020/21 League campaign with two goals from Man of the Match Martin Boyle

The first when he showed an electric burst of pace when he skipped past the advancing Jake Eastwood to slot into the empty net despite the despairing attempts of a recovering Killie defender

The second when played in by Scott Allan to fire home across the bows of Eastwood

Chris Burke pulled a goal back for the Ayrshire men just before half-time with a cracking 30 yard strike high into Rocky’s top right postage stamp direct from a free-kick

Second Half HIBS showed a new found defensive resolve to see the match out and hang on to claim all three points despite surrendering large swathes of possession to an increasingly desperate Kilmarnock side

HIBS Rocky McGinn Porteous Hanlon Wright Allan Gogic Newell Doig Boyle and Nisbet

Subs Horgan for Allan Stevenson for Wright Doidge for Doig




1/8/2015 Scottish League Cup Round One

Hibernian 3 v 0 Montrose

Martin 33
Allan 71
Cummings 82

Scott Allan started on the bench after having a transfer request turned down following interest from The Rangers


Hibs Oxley Gray Hanlon Fontaine Stevenson Martin Fyvie Bartley Stanton Harris and Cummings

Subs Allan for Bartley Shaw for Harris Sinclair for Stanton

Att 5900




1/8/1979 Anglo Scottish Cup Preliminarily Round Leg 2

Hibernian 0 v 1 St Mirren ( Agg 3-4 )

Hibs go crashing out of the Anglo Scottish Cup thanks to a goal from Billy Stark after Big Dod Stewart had been stretchered off

Hibs had put in an encouraging display in the first leg at Love Street securing a 3-3 draw with goals from George Stewart Jim Brown and Tony Higgins

St Mirren would go on to win the trophy defeating their arch nemesis Bristol City in the final to become the first and only Scottish club to do so

HIBS McArthur Brazil Duncan Bremner Stewart McNamara Callachan Rae Campbell Brown and Higgins



1/8/1973 Drybrough Cup Semi-Final

Hibernian 2 v 1 Rangers AET

Bremner
Higgins


Rangers arrived at Easter Road in confident mood not having lost a game in 1973

Their ranks were boosted by exhibee Johnny Hamilton who had been allowed to leave Easter Road and Doug Houston signed from Dundee

The Match was fast and furious played on a bone hard surface on a summers’ evening

Des Bremner scored his first goal for HIBS only to see Derek Parlane equalise to take the game into extra time

Big Tony Higgins rose from the bench to crash home the winner in extra time with a heroic goal scored on the counter attack to inflict Rangers’ first defeat in 27 games

HIBS would go on to defeat Celtic in the final at Hampden Park thanks to a last minute goal from Alan Gordon

Hibs McArthur Bremner Schaedler Stanton Black Blackley Duncan Edwards Gordon Munro and Duncan

Subs Smith Higgins

Att 28000





1/8/1964 Summer Cup Final First Leg

Aberdeen 3 v 2 Hibernian

Jim Scott 2

Hibs gave themselves a fighting chance in the second leg at Easter Road thanks to a battling display and a fine double from Jim Scott

Andy Kerr 2 and ‘Ernie is a milkman’ Winchester scored for the Dons

Hibs would go on to win the Summer Cup in a play-off at Pittodrie in September 1964 after a 2-1 second leg win at Easter Road


Hibs Wilson Fraser Leishman Stanton McNamee J Stevenson O’Rourke Hamilton Vincent Martin and Scott


Birthdays:


Jason Cummings

Junior Agogo RIP

Eric Paton



In Colours Green and White John Campbell




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2/8/2018 UEFA Europa League Second Qualifying Round Leg 2

Asteras Tripoliis 1 v 1 Hibernian Agg 3-4

McGinn 44

https://youtu.be/dkHkCUegAv8


After coming back from 0-2 down in the first leg to win 3-2 Hibs arrived in Greece full of expectation but the Greeks and their fans obviously still fancied their chances needing only a one goal victory to qualify

This almost came to pass in 44 minutes when Tsilianidis rattled the crossbar with a header HIBS attacked from the rebound Kamberi fed in Super John McGinn who blasted the ball into the opposite corner to send the fans behind the goal into raptures

Things got worse for Asteras three minutes into the second period when they had a man sent off

Down to ten men the Greeks continued to pour forward and pulled one back when that man Tsilianidis again managed to roll Ambrose before striding on to slot the ball beyond Adam Bogdan

Bogdan who some fans held responsible for the two goals lost in Edinburgh performed heroically pulling off no less than five fantastic saves from three goal bound headers and two one on ones as HIBS held on for a deserved victory

Special mention also for Super John McGinn who gave 110 % and put his body on the line for the hibee cause knowing he was off on a lucrative contract to Aston Villa A true professional


Hibs Bogdan Gray Ambrose McGregor Stevenson Mallan Slivka Hanlon McGinn Boyle and Kamberi

Subs Whittaker for McGregor Bartley for Slivka Porteous for Mallan

Att 3860




2/8/1972 Drybrough Cup Semi-Final

Hibernian 3 v 0 Rangers

Stanton
Gordon 2

Rangers arrived fresh from their victory in the European Cup Winners Cup Final in Barcelona but HIBS were on the cusp of something extra special at Easter Road

Hibs were imperious on the night with Alex Cropley and Mickey Edwards pulling the strings in midfield
King Paddy Stanton opened the scoring just before half-time with Alan Gordon adding two in the second half the second a glorious header

HIBS were on a revenge mission and would face Celtic in the final at Hampden Park

I remember as usual Rangers could not take a beating and there was a lot of crowd trouble at this game which was the beginning of the end for the Cave


Hibs Herriot Brownlie Schaedler Stanton Black Blackley Edwards Hazel Gordon Cropley and Duncan

Sub O’Rourke


Att 27111



Birthdays:

Russell Latapy

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In Colours Green and White John Campbell




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Great to see this back.

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Great to see this back.

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Quite a few blank days so will complete a full year

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Quite a few blank days so will complete a full year

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Pleased to hear that, Billy.

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If it doesn’t appear already posted saves me talking to myself :greengrin

3/8/2019 Scottish League Premiership Match Day 1

Hibernian 1 v 0 St Mirren

Allan 85


Returning hero Scott Allan secured the points on the opening day with a late goal after he latched on to a Christian Doidge reverse pass and waltzed into the box before firing home from 18 yards

Allan had earlier hit the upright with a cute lob but this match is probably best remembered for substitute Doidge failing to convert a couple of gilt edged chances

The good news was he was making the right runs and adopting the correct positions


Hibs Rocky Whittaker Hanlon James Jackson Vela Horgan Newell Mallan Allan and Kamberi

Subs Mackie for James Doidge for Vela Slivka for Horgan

Att 16600




3/8/2002 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 1 v 2 Aberdeen

Luna 31

Paco Luna gave HIBS the lead when he latched onto a John O’Neil expertly threaded pass to chip the advancing Kjaer on the half hour

Darren Mackie pulled the Dons level on the hour much to the joy of the 3000 travelling fans jammed into the South

Deep into 10 minutes added injury time Kjaer pulled off a world class save when he expertly clawed away a Tam McManus lob destined for the top faraway corner

Scenes in the 97th minute when Aberdeen broke away and Fergus Tiernan and Darren Young teed up Chris Clark for a tap-in for an undeserved winner



Hibs Caig Orman Smith Dempsie Murray Townsley O’Neil Arpinon Brebner O’Connor and Luna

Subs Wiss McManus and Whittaker

Att 13340



3/8/1997 Scottish League Premier Division

Hibernian 2 v 1 Celtic

Power
Charnley

https://youtu.be/fk6jG4dunG4

Darren Jackson made his return to Easter Road in a Celtic jersey and Henrik Larsson made his debut for Celtic against Jim Duffy’s new look HIBS side

Lee Power gave HIBS the lead when he got on the end of a Tony Rougier cross into the box Malky Mackay equalised and boyhood Celtic fan Chic Charnley got on the end of Substitute Larsson’s wayward first touch to spectacularly fire home the winner beyond Gordon Marshall from 22 yards

Chic Charnley played the entire match with a smile on his face scoring a goal and striking the upright from 30 yards

Throughout the game he could quite clearly be heard shouting to his teammates ‘ Here, Here’ demanding the ball

The teams left the field at full time with chants of ‘Chico Chico’ ringing in their ears from the East

What could go wrong ?


Hibs Olly Miller Boco Charnley Hughes Welsh Dow Power Crawford Rougier and McGinlay

Subs G Miller Tosh

Att 13000


3/8/1986 Friendly Challenge Match

Hibernian 1 v 2 Seville

Irvine

Hibs warmed up for their opening fixture against Graeme Souness’ new Rangers team with two difficult friendlies the first against Jock Wallace’s Seville side who were too good on the day

The second against Gordon Durie’s Chelsea side who we easily defeated 4-0


Q Can anyone remember the names of the five signings signed in the summer of 1986 signed in preparation for the Rangers game?


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George McCluskey and Billy Kirkwood.

Can't remember the others, which may mean they weren't up to much!

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Two down three to go

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Two down three to go

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Stuart Beedie, was Mark Caughey one of them? And Gordon Chisholm?

I can see the match day programme in my head

Bedie mark caughy
Willie Irvine 2??

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Stuart Beedie, was Mark Caughey one of them? And Gordon Chisholm?

I can see the match day programme in my head

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Chisholm made a scoring debut versus Oldco in a 2-0 victory at ER in the League Cup

https://thehiblog.wordpress.com/2017...3-august-1986/

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Bedie mark caughy
Willie Irvine 2??

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Willie Irvine #2 scored a hat-trick versus Chelsea in the 4-0 victory

I was at all the games in today's list, which is a first for me, being a youngster as I am :-)

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Loved the Chic Charnley game

Souness game was no too bad as well

4/8/2013 Scottish League Premiership

Hibernian 0 v 1 Motherwell

Fresh from their aggregate 0-9 drubbing to Malmo Pat Fenlon gave debuts to Michael Nelson and James Collins

Both performed well but in reality HIBS had Ben Williams to thank for keeping them in the game with excellent late saves from Sutton and McManus but there was little he could do to stop future Hibby Motherwell substitute debutant Henri Anier’s late strike with 12 minutes to go

Hibs Williams Mullen Hanlon Nelson Stevenson Harris Robertson Craig Tudur-Jones Thomson and Collins

Subs Stanton for Harris Taiwo for Robertson Handling for Thomson

Att 9237



4/8/2001 Scottish League SPL

Dundee 2 v 1 Hibernian

Luna 59


Hibs go down to goals from Sara 9 and Caballero 62

Hibs Colgan De La Cruz Smith Sauzee Laursen Jack Murray Brebner O’Neil Brewster and Luna

Subs Zitelli O’Connor Townsley

Att 9500





4/8/1998 Scottish League Division One

Morton 0 v 1 Hibernian

Lavety


Relegated HIBS took a large travelling support through to Cappielow where they witnessed their heroes record a narrow victory and get their campaign off to the perfect start thanks to a strike from Barry Lavety

Alex McLeish gave debuts to Stuart Lovell and Paul Holsgrove


Hibs Olly Renwick Elliot Holsgrove Hughes Dennis Lovell Skinner Crawford Lavety and McGinlay

Subs Rougier Bannerman

Att 5745



4/8/1992 Scottish League Premier Division

Motherwell 1 v 2 Hibernian

Wright
McGinlay

https://youtu.be/5uijRd7HH5A


Hibs Reid Orr Mitchell Beaumont McIntyre MacLeod Hamilton Wright Weir Jackson and McGinlay

Sub Evans

Att 5400




4/8/1973 Drybrough Cup Final

Hibernian 1 v 0 Celtic

Gordon 119

https://www.thecelticwiki.com/1973-0...ugh-cup-final/


Hibs held on to take the game into extra time despite Celtic twice hitting the woodwork

The goal when it came was a thing of great beauty following a flowing move involving Bremner Higgins Cropley and Gordon

Cropley fed Gordon lurking on the edge of the offside line at the edge of the box who despatched a glorious left footed drive low past goalkeeper Alistair Hunter who had no chance

Hibs McArthur Bremner Schaedler Stanton Black Blackley Edwards Higgins Gordon Munro and Duncan

Subs Smith for Edwards Cropley for Munro

Att 50000




Birthdays

Mark Milligan

Jimmy Stevenson RIP



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4/8/2013 Scottish League Premiership

Hibernian 0 v 1 Motherwell

Fresh from their aggregate 0-9 drubbing to Malmo Pat Fenlon gave debuts to Michael Nelson and James Collins

Both performed well but in reality HIBS had Ben Williams to thank for keeping them in the game with excellent late saves from Sutton and McManus but there was little he could do to stop future Hibby Motherwell substitute debutant Henri Anier’s late strike with 12 minutes to go

Hibs Williams Mullen Hanlon Nelson Stevenson Harris Robertson Craig Tudur-Jones Thomson and Collins

Subs Stanton for Harris Taiwo for Robertson Handling for Thomson

Att 9237



4/8/2001 Scottish League SPL

Dundee 2 v 1 Hibernian

Luna 59


Hibs go down to goals from Sara 9 and Caballero 62

Hibs Colgan De La Cruz Smith Sauzee Laursen Jack Murray Brebner O’Neil Brewster and Luna

Subs Zitelli O’Connor Townsley

Att 9500





4/8/1998 Scottish League Division One

Morton 0 v 1 Hibernian

Lavety


Relegated HIBS took a large travelling support through to Cappielow where they witnessed their heroes record a narrow victory and get their campaign off to the perfect start thanks to a strike from Barry Lavety

Alex McLeish gave debuts to Stuart Lovell and Paul Holsgrove


Hibs Olly Renwick Elliot Holsgrove Hughes Dennis Lovell Skinner Crawford Lavety and McGinlay

Subs Rougier Bannerman

Att 5745



4/8/1992 Scottish League Premier Division

Motherwell 1 v 2 Hibernian

Wright
McGinlay

https://youtu.be/5uijRd7HH5A


Hibs Reid Orr Mitchell Beaumont McIntyre MacLeod Hamilton Wright Weir Jackson and McGinlay

Sub Evans

Att 5400




4/8/1973 Drybrough Cup Final

Hibernian 1 v 0 Celtic

Gordon 119

https://www.thecelticwiki.com/1973-0...ugh-cup-final/


Hibs held on to take the game into extra time despite Celtic twice hitting the woodwork

The goal when it came was a thing of great beauty following a flowing move involving Bremner Higgins Cropley and Gordon

Cropley fed Gordon lurking on the edge of the offside line at the edge of the box who despatched a glorious left footed drive low past goalkeeper Alistair Hunter who had no chance

Hibs McArthur Bremner Schaedler Stanton Black Blackley Edwards Higgins Gordon Munro and Duncan

Subs Smith for Edwards Cropley for Munro

Att 50000




Birthdays

Mark Milligan

Jimmy Stevenson RIP



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Drybrough cup final first away game without an adult, was 12
Instructions from parents get train to Queen St follow crowd to Central Station get tickets to mount florida job done.

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Drybrough cup final first away game without an adult, was 12
Instructions from parents get train to Queen St follow crowd to Central Station get tickets to mount florida job done.

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Same but Scottish Cup Final 1972

Phoned up Carlton Branch put on a deep voice to book pick up from Haymarket

Bus Convener was astonished when a 12 year old barged past him and sat doon in the bus on his jack

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A meeting held in the Catholic Institute-St Mary’s Halls attached to St Patrick’s Church in the Cowgate led to the formation of Hibernian Football Club on Friday 6th August 1875.

The unlikely pair of gentlemen behind the move were Canon Edward Hannan and Michael Whelahan of The Catholic Young Men’s Society

Both men had been born in Ireland and had moved to Edinburgh and together with thousands of their countrymen and women had set up home in the Old Town of Edinburgh known as ‘Little Ireland’ which took in the Cowgate and its surrounding areas

The ‘establishment’ and local teams were reluctant to accept these Irish incomers so the decision to form their own team for Irish Catholic’s was taken

Hibernian was run by St Patrick’s CYMS as an amateur charitable football club. The charitable work of Hibernian became legendary not only in Edinburgh but throughout Scotland and their influence in spreading the popularity of football is reflected today by two senior Scottish football clubs who owe their existence to Hibernian: Celtic Football Club and Dundee United

Hibs’ centenary Captain and club legend Pat Stanton is a direct descendant of Michael Whelahan the first Captain of Hibernian Football Club




6/8/2016 Scottish League Championship Match Day 1

Falkirk 1 v 2 Hibernian

Cummings 2



6/8/2007 Scottish League SPL Match Day 1

Hearts 0 v 1 Hibernian

Kerr



Birthdays:

John Parke RIP



The Making Of Hibernian: The Harp Awakes Alan Lugton

Hibernian FC On This Day. Sinnet and Colquhoun


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Happy Birthday to Hibernian Football Club 146 years young today

Many Happy Returns

What are we doing for our 150th ?

Happy birthday Hibs.

146 years old and still as gorgeous as ever

10/8/1996 Scottish League Premier Division Match Day 1

Hibernian 1 v 2 Kilmarnock

Weir

Alex Miller had to boost his squad and he did so by swapping Gareth Evans and David Farrell for Partick’s Ian Cameron :confused:

Brian Welsh and Ian Cameron made their debuts HIBS passed well and created many chances but found Killie goalie Lekovic to be in excellent form

Killie scored a quick 1-2 in five crazy first half minutes through Ally Mitchell and John Henry

Michael Weir replied for HIBS in the second half his last goal for the club

HIBS Leighton Miller Welsh Millen Donald Hunter Weir Cameron Wright Jackson and McGinlay

Subs McAllister Dow

Att 8700



10/8/1993 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Hibernian 2 v 0 Alloa

Wright
Donald

Billy Lamont’s Alloa put up a good fight but the Hibees had a sting in their tail with goals from Keith Wright and returning forgotten man Graeme Donald

Hibs Leighton Miller Tortolano McIntyre Tweed Hunter McAllister Hamilton Wright Jackson and McGraw

Sub Donald

Att 4600



10/8/1991 Scottish League Premier Division Match Day 1

Hibernian 4 v 1 St Mirren

Weir 2
McGinlay 2

Hibs still had a team after the Wallet Mercenary take over bid and they would not die

HIBS Burridge Miller Mitchell Orr McIntyre MacLeod Weir Hamilton Wright McGraw and McGinlay

Subs Evans Lennon

Att 8271



10/8/1985 Scottish League Premier Division Match Day 1

Aberdeen 3 v 0 Hibernian

Aberdeen unfurled the flag but HIBS played well playing four teenagers Collins Weir Hunter and Kane with a young Gordon Juke Box Durie coming off the bench

Hibs Rough Sneddon Munro Kane Rae Hunter Weir Collins Irvine Cowan and McBride

Sub Durie

Att 14857




10/8/1977 Anglo Scottish Cup Preliminaries Leg 1

Hibernian 2 v 1 Ayr United

Smith
Scott

Hibs wore the famous Bukta strip for the first time in this game

HIBS took an early lead when Ayr keeper Hugh Sproat failed to hold a Des Bremner drive and Bobby Smith fired home from close range Big Walker McCall equalised for Ayr but HIBS left it late cult anti-hero Ally Scott firing home a low hard Arthur Duncan cross

HIBS would draw the second leg 2-2 and would reach the Semi Final going out to Peter Cormack’s Bristol City in a bad tempered two legged encounter

Hibs McDonald McNamara Schaedler Brazil Stewart Blackley Duncan Bremner Scott MacLeod and Smith




10/8/1974 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 3 v 1 Rangers

Gordon
Duncan
Harper

A surprisingly easy routine win for HIBS in this League Cup Section game

Rangers had Richard Sharp at centre forward in place of the suspended Derek Parlane

John Blackley and Derek Spalding changing turns to have him in their back pocket

Alan Gordon opened the scoring from his new position in midfield no doubt to accommodate Joe Harper

Ally Scott scored a late consolation for Rangers

Hibs McArthur Brownlie Schaedler Stanton Spalding Blackley Edwards Higgins Harper Gordon and Duncan

Att 23500



10/8/1968 Scottish League Cup

Hibernian 0 v 1 St Johnstone

Kenny Aird scored the only goal

Penalty King Joe Davis missed a penalty

Peter Cormack was carried off with damaged ankle ligaments


HIBS Wilson Shevlane Davis Stanton Cousin McGraw Marinello Quinn Stein Cormack and Stevenson

Subs Murphy for Cormack

Att 9750




10/8/1963 Scottish League Cup Group 2

St Mirren 1 v 1 Hibernian

Martin

Neil Martin having opened the scoring had to leave the field with 20 minutes left leaving HIBS down to 10

Kerrigan scored a late late equaliser for the Saints



10/8/1957 Scottish League Cup Group 3

Hibernian 4 v 0 East Fife

Preston 23
Ormond 35
Smith 58
Turnbull 65



10/8/1946 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 9 v 1 Queen Of The South

Cuthbertson 1 77
Weir 18 20 35 63
Aitkenhead 55
Buchanan 60
Smith 85

The first post war League game and HIBS run riot on a bright sunny day with Gordon Smith scoring one and having several assists and close calls

Armstrong 75 for Queens

This was the first game in which HIBS wore numbered shirts


Hibs Kerr Howie Shaw Kean Aird McCabe Smith Cuthbertson Weir Buchanan and Aitkenhead

Att 35000

Edit:

In the same week Gordon Smith turned down an unofficial approach from Matt Busby to join him at Man Utd the proposed opening bid 40k a record at the time

He turned up at ER with a brand new MG in his favourite colour .....maroon !



Birthdays

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Roy O’Donovan



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11/8/2020 Scottish League Premiership Match Day 3

Dundee United 0 v 1 Hibernian

Doidge 65

Hibs made it three wins on the bounce when Christian ( Doidgerinho) Doidge managed to find the top near post postage stamp corner from an impossible angle despite being closed down by three United defenders

Hibs Rocky Hanlon Porteous McGinn Doig Horgan Boyle Newell Gogic Doidge and Nisbet

Subs Allan for Horgan Hallberg for Newell


https://youtu.be/aTH4JFHJ6RA



11/8/2019 Scottish League Premiership

The Rangers 6 v 1 Hibernian

Horgan 40

Mackie sent off 55



11/8/2007 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 4 v 2 Gretna

Zemmama 2
Fletcher
McCann

Fabian Yantorno’s free kick gave Gretna a half time lead

Colin McMenamin broke clear into the second half to put Gretna two up

Benji then missed a penalty but Merouane Zemmama spared his countryman’s blushes by pulling one back on 64 minutes

Steven Fletcher headed home two minutes later to pull HIBS level

Zemmama put HIBS ahead on 82 minutes with a trade mark free-kick

Gretna pressed forward looking for the equaliser but were caught on the break in the dying minutes when Kevin McCann broke clear to seal the points

Hibs never lost to Gretna during their doomed spell in the top flight

Gretna’s tiny support in the South Stand were teased by the East ‘ Three fans you’ve only got three fans’

Hibs Ma Ka Gathuessi Hogg Jones Murphy McCann Kerr Beuzelin O’Brien Benji and Morais

Subs Joneleit for Jones Benji for Morais Zemmama for Kerr

Att 13795



11/8/2001 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 2 v 0 Aberdeen

Sauzee pen
McManus

https://youtu.be/Vgxooq4izPg

Le god scores from the penalty spot in 5 minutes after John O’Neil was brought down in the box

Craig Brewster with an immaculate pass just before half-time to spring the offside trap to allow Tam McManus in to chip the goalie off the upright for his first goal of the season sealed the deal

HIBS Colgan Fenwick Orman Sauzee Laursen Jack Murray Brebner O’Neil Brewster and McManus

Subs Zitelli Townsley Luna

Att 13150



11/8/1973 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Morton 1 v 4 Hibernian

Higgins 2
Duncan
Cropley

A lovely crisp volley by Neil McNab gave the hosts a shock 1-0 half time lead

A half-time rocket from Eddie Turnbull and changes that included Bobby Smith on for the injured Alan Gordon and Alex Cropley on for the ineffectual Alex Edwards turned the game in the Hibees favour with Bobby Smith laying on the first two for Big Tony Higgins

HIBS McArthur Bremner Schaedler Stanton Black Blackley Edwards Higgins Gordon Munro and Duncan

Subs Smith Cropley

Att 4658


Birthdays

Jim Brown ( Ex Hearts)


Hibernian on this day Colquhoun and Sinnet

Martin Igoe



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12/8/2018 Scottish League Premiership Match Day 2

St Johnstone 1 v 1 Hibernian

Shaw


12/8/2017 Scottish League Premiership Match Day 2

The Rangers 2 v 3 Hibernian

S Murray
Tavernier og
Slivka


Alfredo Morelos headed The Rangers in front after three minutes. Simon Murray equalised with a neat finish cutting in from the left and skipping past Fabio Carduso to steer a low shot past Wes Foderingham.

Ryan Jack was sent off for angrily grabbing Dylan McGeoch and getting involved in a heated exchange with Anthony Stokes right in front of Referee John Beaton. HIBS added to Rangers’ woes when Murray picked out Slivka on the edge of the six yard box the Lithuanian’s attempt on goal appeared to be going past the post before being inadvertently directed into his own goal by Tavernier

Hibs stretched their lead just after the interval when The Rangers defence fell asleep at a throw in allowing Slivka to control the ball on his knee before sending a 20 yard volley beyond Foderingham

Tavernier redeemed himself with nine minutes to go when he pulled a goal back with a header but it was too little too late

Hibs: Marciano McGregor Ambrose Hanlon Whittaker McGeoch McGinn Slivka Stevenson Stokes and S Murray

Subs Swanson and Gray

Att: 49636


https://youtu.be/WqHNpM3QxwY



12/8/2012 Scottish League SPL Match Day 2

Hibernian 1 v 1 Hearts

Griffiths


12/8/2006 Scottish League SPL Match Day 3

Inverness CT 0 v 0 Hibernian



12/8/2000 Scottish League SPL Match Day 3

Hibernian 5 v 1 Dundee

Agathe 2
Lehmann 2
Lovell

Dundee took the lead in this game when Georgi Nemsadze cut the ball back to Fabian Caballero who found himself in acres of space to fire a powerful right footer into the bottom corner. The visitors were living up to their prematch billing and were playing brilliant football but were left stunned when Didier Agathe scored a brilliant solo goal collecting the ball in his own half shrugging off a series of challenges as the Dundee defence struggled to match his searing pace and he dispatched a deft flick beyond Dundee goalkeeper Rab Douglas on seeing the whites of the goalkeeper’s eyes.

Hibs missed a goalden chance to take the lead when Douglas brilliantly saved a Russell Latapy penalty kick after Tom Smith was hauled down inside the box. Latapy made up for this misdemeanour when he played a perfectly weighted ball into Agathe’s path who gave HIBS the lead just before half-time

Dundee’s problems increased in stoppage time at the end of the first half when Cabellero was sent off for elbowing Matty Jack after the HIBS enforcer had rattled his bones like a xylophone with a typically robust challenge

Hibs were always comfortable against ten man Dundee in the second half and increased their lead through a double from substitute Dirk Lehmann and a late counter from fellow substitute Stuart Lovell

Dundee had a man sent off in the tunnel after the game


Hibs Colgan Smith Jack Laursen Fenwick T Smith ONeil Sauzee Latapy Agathe and Paatelainen

Subs Lehmann Lovell Murray

Dundee Douglas Smith De Marchi Tweed Marrocco Artero Billio Nemsadze Bonetti Cabellero Sara

Subs Langfield Yates Milne Falconer Coyne

Att 12075


https://youtu.be/QetdkEYQ-0A




12/8/1992 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Hibernian 4 v 1 Raith Rovers

Evans 2
Hamilton
McGinlay


12/8/1989 Scottish League Premier Division Match Day 1

Aberdeen 1 v 0 Hibernian


12/8/1987 Scottish League Premier Division Match Day 2

Hibernian 1 v 0 Rangers

Collins


12/8/1981 Scottish League Cup Group 1

St Mirren 0 v 0 Hibernian


12/8/1978 Scottish League Premier Division Match Day 1

Dundee United 0 v 0 Hibernian


12/8/1972 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 4 v 2 Queens Park

Stanton
Cropley
Hamiton 2 ( 1 pen )

Bobby Robertson played in goal in this game



12/8/1970 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Hibernian 3 v 2 Airdrieonians

McBride
Duncan 2


12/8/1967 League Cup Group 3

Dundee 0 v 0 Hibernian


12/8/1964 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Dunfermline 2 v 0 Hibernian

12/8/1961 Scottish League Cup Group 1

St Johnstone 1 v 1 Hibernian

Baxter


12/8/1959 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Dundee 4 v 3 Hibernian

Ormond
Baxter
Baker

Willie Wilson makes his debut



12/8/1953 Scottish League Cup Group 1

Falkirk 1 v 4 Hibernian

Smith 2
Johnstone
D’Arcy

12/8/1950 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibs 2 v 0 Dundee

Johnstone
Smith



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Today’s games victory at Ibrox and the Didier Agathe game

12/8/2012 Scottish Premier League

Hibernian 1 v 1 Hearts

Griffiths 45

https://youtu.be/knTLabhmEno


12/8/1987 Scottish Premier League

Hibernian 1 v 0 Rangers

Collins

https://thehiblog.wordpress.com/2017...2-august-1987/

13/8/2016 Scottish League Championship

Hibernian 2 v 1 Dunfermline Athletic

Richards-Everton Own goal
Cummings

https://youtu.be/hiWrHj6nNeQ

On loan Hearts striker Gavin Reilly equalised for the Pars before Jase bagged all three points when Fordyce made a hash of clearing Martin Boyle’s cross into the box


Hibs Laidlaw Hanlon Fontaine McGregor Gray Bartley McGinn Stevenson Holt Keatings and Cummings

Subs Boyle McGeouch Forster

Att 16500



13/8/2005 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 3 v 0 Livingston

Murphy 40
Shiels 42
O’Connor 53

Hibs get some semblance of revenge on bogey team Livi

Hibs Zibi Whittaker Murphy Hogg Smith Brown Boozy Stewart Shiels O’Connor and Riordan

Subs Morrow Thomson Fletcher

Att 11341



13/8/1996 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Brechin City 0 v 2 Hibernian

Lavety
Dow

Barry Lavety scores on his debut and Andy Dow scores the other

Dow must have been thinking playing at Brechin in front of 1300 was far removed from Stamford Bridge

Hibs Leighton Miller Dow Millen Welsh Hunter Lavety Cameron Wright Jackson and McGinlay

Sub McAllister



13/8/1994 Scottish League Premier Division

Hibernian 5 v 0 Dundee United

Findlay
Jackson 2 (1 pen)
Harper
O’Neill

https://youtu.be/L6crqsUpawc


The opening game of the season and HIBS put Dundee United ( who would be relegated) to the sword

Kevin McAllister tormentor in chief running Alex Clelland ragged so much so he was dismissed in the first half for one foul too many on the wee man

Darren Jackson recorded a double against his old employers

Kevin Harper came off the bench to score his first goal for the club and Michael O’Neill completed the scoring against his old employers with a great chipped effort

Hibs Leighton Miller Mitchell Findlay Tweed Hunter McAllister Hamilton Evans Jackson and O’Neill

Sub Harper

Att 8338



13/8/1991 Scottish League Premier Division

Hibernian 2 v 1 St Johnstone

Hamilton
McIntyre pen

HIBS Budgie Miller Milne Orr McIntyre McGinlay Weir Hamilton Wright McGraw and Evans

Sub Raynes

Att 9236



13/8/1988 Scottish League Premier Division

Hibernian 1 v 0 Motherwell

McIntyre

Hibs Goram Hunter Sneddon Orr Rae McIntyre Weir Kane McCluskey Collins and Tortolano

Subs Evans May

Att 11000



13/8/1958 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Aberdeen 1 v 2 Hibernian

Aitken
Baker

Wishart gave the hosts the lead but HIBS bounced back to their Scottish Cup form to top the Group with two wins thanks to goals from Andy Aitken and Joe Baker



13/8/1952 Scottish League Cup Group 1

Hibernian 5 v 2 St Mirren

Reilly
Smith
Combe
Ormond
Turnbull


Hibs unfurled the Championship flag in front of 40000 fans but got off to the worst possible start when McGill put the Buddies in front

Lawrie Reilly equalised on 24 minutes following a defence splitting pass from Gordon Smith Smith then dribbled straight through the Saints defence before unleashing a thunderbolt that the Saints keeper parried but Smith followed up to slide home

Into the second half and Bobby Combe made it three Ormond added a fourth before Duncanson pulled one back for Saints Eddie Turnbull scored a fifth for HIBS in the dying minutes to top the group

Hibs Younger Govan Howie Buchanan Paterson Gallacher Smith Combe Reilly Turnbull and Ormond



13/8/1949 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 1 v 0 Falkirk

Ormond 40

A dull game brought to life by a brilliant flowing move involving Buchanan Smith and Reilly ending in Reilly sending over a cross to the far post to be magnificently met by the head of Willie Ormond



13/8/1938 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 2 v 2 Hamilton Academicals

Harte 2

The famous emerald jerseys with the white sleeves are worn for the first time

Willie McCartney addressed the 22000 strong crowd with his ‘Brighter Easter Road’ speech five minutes before kickoff

The Harp and shamrocks at the entrances had been given a bright fresh coat of green paint

The wall around the track and crush barriers had been painted white

The pitch had been laid with turf imported from Ireland

The old square posts had been replaced with round ones

Hibs took the lead through two early second half goals from Jim Harte but they took the foot of the gas and allowed Hamilton back into the games

One of the criticisms of McCartney’s early babes was that if anything they were overconfident going into games and it cost them points




The Making of Hibernian The Romantic Years Alan Lugton

At Easter Road They Play John Campbell



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14/8/2004 Scottish League Premiership

Motherwell 1 v 2 Hibernian

O’Connor 2 78

The late Phil O’Donnell equalised for ‘Well on 20 minutes

Murdock and Brebner sent off

Hibs Brown Caldwell Murdock Whittaker Murphy Boozy Brebner Brown Glass McManus and O’Connor

Subs Shiels for Murphy Morrow for McManus Shields for O’Connor

Att 5859



14/8/1999 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 1 v 1 Hearts

Latapy pen

https://youtu.be/TqeXndn0qyQ


After a season without a local derby HIBS welcomed Hearts to Easter Road Russell Latapy gave HIBS a first half lead from the penalty spot Gary McSwegan equalised into the second half for the jambos but the game is probably best remembered for the BT ad showing Latapy’s successful penalty conversion and Stevie Fulton getting booked for being ugly

HIBS Olly Lovering Renwick Dennis Jack Skinner Henry Latapy Sauzee McGinlay and Lehmann

Subs Hartley Paatelainen Miller

Att 17000



14/8/1993 Scottish League Premier Division

Celtic 1 v 1 Hibernian

Tweed 83

https://youtu.be/Z9OVUoxorVM


Charlie Nicholas gave Celtic the lead after 10 minutes Steven Tweed celebrating his 21st equalised with a crisp volley on the penalty spot on 83 minutes

Pat McGinlay lined up for Celtic Hibs had Jim Leighton to thank for a point putting in a superb display in only his third appearance for the club

Back at Easter Road the Reserves were defeating a strong Celtic side 2-1 with both goals coming from Mark McGraw who was becoming something of a goal scoring phenomenon at that level

Hibs Leighton Miller Beaumont McIntyre Tweed Hunter McAllister Hamilton Wright Jackson and Donald

Subs Farrell Findlay

Att 27690


14/8/1982 Scottish League Cup Group 3

Hibernian 1 v 1 Rangers

Rae

John McDonald gave Rangers the lead but HIBS equalised just before half-time when Gordon Rae swivelled in the box and sent a crisp drive past Jim Stewart low to his right hand side

HIBS had chances to win the game second half but failed to capitalise

Rangers had Craig Paterson making his debut ( What’s it like to be a Hun?) and Robert Prytz in their side a strange one as the swede signed from Malmo had no problem getting a Work Permit unlike Refvik and Mathisen

Hibs McArthur Sneddon Schaedler Brazil Welsh McNamara Callachan Rae Rodier Turnbull and Thomson

Att 15000




14/8/1976 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Montrose 0 v 1 Hibernian

Ally Scott



14/8/1971 Scottish League Cup Group 1

Motherwell 0 v 3 Hibernian

Cropley
Hamilton 2

Hibs had failed to win a preseason game but the hard work paid off in this away fixture

Jim Herriot made his official debut in this match and kept a clean sheet

John Brownlie came closest for HIBS in a goalless first half striking the crossbar

Alex Cropley opened the scoring and Johnny Hamilton added a double his first going in off the post the second when he spotted Keith McCrae ( the man in Black) off his line and he chipped him from 25 yards the ball clipping the crossbar on the way in

HIBS Herriot Brownlie Schaedler O’Rourke Black Stanton Stevenson Hamilton Baker Hazel and Cropley

Att 6500


14/8/1968 Scottish League Cup Group 1

Raith Rovers 0 v 1 Hibernian

Jimmy Jimmy O’Rourke

The only goal came when Rovers keeper Bobby Reid pushed out an Alan McGraw cross that fell handily for Jimmy O’Rourke and he didn’t have to be asked twice

HIBS Wilson Shevlane Davis Stanton Cousin McGraw Marinello Quinn Stein O’Rourke and Stevenson

Att 6050



14/8/1963 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 3 v 2 Dundee United

Martin
Baker
O’Rourke

After a dire 0-0 first half this game burst into life second half with HIBS having to hang on for victory with Bobby Mitchell twice scoring for the Terrors ( one pen).

This was the first game for an animated Tam McNiven in the HIBS dugout

HIBS Simpson Grant McClelland Preston Easton Baxter Scott O’Rourke Baker Martin and Stevenson

Att 9759



14/8/1948 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 5 v 2 East Fife

Smith
Linwood
Turnbull
Aitkenhead 2


Hibs unfurled the League Flag in front of 40000

Eddie Turnbull had to leave the field of play for 20 minutes after picking up a head injury

When he returned HIBS were a goal down

Goals from Smith Linwood and Turnbull gave HIBS a 3-1 half time lead

A second half double from Johnny Aitkenhead either side of a goal from Morris secured the points

Hibs Kerr Govan Shaw Finnigan Howie Buchanan Smith Combe Linwood Turnbull and Aitkenhead



14/8/1946 Scottish League Division One

Rangers 1 v 2 Hibernian

Aitkenhead 29
Weir 52

George Young scored from the penalty spot in the first minute when Peter Aird was harshly deemed to have handled the ball

Hibs came storming back and a great run and cross by Gordon Smith allowed Aitkenhead to equalise

HIBS continued to dominate the game and the 60000 Ibrox crowd did not like what they were witnessing even more so when Jock Weir easily headed home an Aitkenhead cross for the winner early in the second half


Hibs Kerr Howie Shaw Kean Aird McCabe Smith Cuthbertson Weir Buchanan and Aitkenhead




At Easter Road They Play John Campbell




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Those were the days with that team in 1963. 2 full backs, 1 of whom was a converted midfield player, 1 centre back, 2 creative midfield players, 2 wingers & 3 strikers! Not a holding player in sight!!

15/8/2020 Scottish League Premiership

Hibernian 0 v 0 Motherwell

David Turnbull returned to the Motherwell side and they were unlucky having a Jordan White goal disallowed for offside

The point took HIBS to top of the League



15/8/2015 Scottish League Championship

Hibernian 1 v 0 Morton

Cummings 58

Jase comes on as a second half sub for Marv on 58 minutes and breaks the deadlock with his first touch as life at Easter Road began without Scott Allan



15/8/2010 Scottish League SPL

Motherwell 2 v 3 Hibernian

Stokes 45
Hanlon 64
L Miller 73




15/8/2009 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 2 v 1 St Mirren

Wotherspoon
Benji

David Wotherspoon scores on his debut just before half-time one minute after Stephen McGinn had given the Buddies the lead Saints had been down to ten men after only 15 minutes when pundit Steven Thompson was sent off for a shocker of a tackle on Patrick Cregg

Benji came off the bench to score his first goal in two years with a superb diving header in the 83rd minute to grab all three points

Hibs Ma Ka McCann Hogg Bamba Hanlon Rankin McBride Cregg Wotherspoon Nish and Riordan

Sub Benji for McCann Galbraith for Hanlon

Att 12313





15/8/1998 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 1 v 2 Stranraer

Skinner

Alex McLeish’s HIBS crash at home in their bid to return to the Premiership at the first time of asking



15/8/1989 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Hibernian 2 v 0 Alloa

Sneddon 2


15/8/1987 Scottish League Premier Division

Hibernian 0 v 4 Dundee

Hibs are ripped apart by the Cobra and the Mongoose Keith Wright and Tommy Coyne

I remember this game being 0-4 at half-time by which time I was in the Artisan




15/8/1973 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 1 v 0 Ayr United

Bremner

Hibs scored late on in this tight encounter Des Bremner going on a run exchanging one two’s with Alex Edwards and Tony Higgins before unleashing a powerful drive from just inside the box beyond Ayr goalkeeper David Stewart

Hibs McArthur Bremner Schaedler Stanton Black Blackley Smith Edwards Higgins Munro and Duncan

Subs Cropley for Smith Gordon for Duncan

Att 13294




15/8/1970 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Aberdeen 1 v 1 Hibernian

Duncan 40

Nijinsky the flying machine gave HIBS the lead but David Robb headed an equaliser just after half time

Hibs had several chances in the second half that they failed to take

HIBS Marshall Brownlie Schaedler Blackley Black Stanton Stevenson Graham McBride Hamilton and Duncan

Att 15229



15/8/1964 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 5 v 0 Airdrieonians

J Scott 3
Hamilton
Martin



15/8/1962 Scottish League Cup Group 4

St Mirren 3 v 3 Hibernian

Byrne
Stevenson
G Baker

Debutant John Byrne gave HIBS the lead but goals from Kerrigan 35 Bryceland 48 and McLean 51 put the Saints 3-1 up Eric Stevenson pulled one back and Gerry Baker equalised against his old club with three minutes to go


HIBS Simpson Grant McClelland Preston Easton Baxter Logan Byrne Baker M Stevenson and E Stevenson


Att 4750




15/8/1950 Scottish League Cup Group 2

St Mirren 0 v 6 Hibernian

Reilly 3
Johnstone 2
Smith


Hibs Younger Govan Cairns Howie Paterson Combe Smith Johnstone Reilly Turnbull and Ormond

Att 25000



15/8/1924 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 3 v 2 Partick Thistle

Dunn 2
McColl

This Friday night game took place at Tynecastle as Greater Easter Road was still under renovation and was played at a terrific pace in front of 18000 singing green clad Hibernian supporters HIBS played their ‘celebrated team’ and with the teams tied at 2-2 going into the final minute the brilliant Jimmy Dunn rattled home the winner

HIBS Harper McGinnigle Dornan Kerr Miller Shaw Ritchie Dunn McColl Halligan and Walker



15/8/1896 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 3 v 1 Celtic

Martin
Murray
Dougal

Heavy rain preceded this game but by the time the teams ran out brilliant sunshine shone on the monster crowd

Celtic playing their short passing game took an early lead HIBS relying on their long accurate passing eight man attack bulldozed their way back into the game when Centre Half Allan Martin joined the attack and fired a drive through the legs of Celtic keeper McArthur from close range

Pat Murray gave HIBS the lead just before the interval

The second half was fast and furious but also very clever and it was HIBS who grabbed the alll important deciding goal when George Dougal fired home to complete the scoring

Hibs McCall Robertson McFarlane Breslin Martin Murphy Murray Kennedy Pryce Smith and Dougal

Att 12000




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The Making of Hibernian The Brave Years Alan Lugton



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16/8/2018 UEFA Europa League 3rd Qualifying Round 2nd Leg

Molde 3 v 0 Hibernian


16/8/2008 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 3 v 2 Falkirk

Nish 1 25
Hanlon 47

John Hughes’ HIBS recorded their first win of the season with a fine double from Colin Nish and a goal just after halftime from defender Paul Hanlon Nish was unlucky not to record a hat-trick with strike partner Steven Fletcher twice going close striking the crossbar on one occasion

Falkirk were not without fight urged on by Jackie McNamara Jnr and a double from the dangerous Michael Higdon 30 53 made for an entertaining finish

HIBS McNeill Van Zanten Hogg Jones Hanlon Keenan Shiels Rankin O’Brien Fletcher and Nish

Subs Murray Campbell Chisholm

Att 12500



16/8/2000 Scottish League SPL

Kilmarnock 0 v 1 Hibernian

Paatelainen 37


Hibs Colgan T Smith G Smith McIntosh Sauzee Laursen Jack Latapy O’Neil Paatelainen and Agathe

Sub Lehmann


https://youtu.be/HaewzuB1GSo



16/8/1980 Scottish League Division One

Stirling Albion 0 v 2 Hibernian

Cormack
Rae

Peter Cormack put HIBS ahead with a rasping shot that went in off the underside of the crossbar and Gordon Rae added a second when he converted a Duncan cross

Hibs McArthur Brown Black McNamara Paterson Cormack Torrance Callachan Rae Brazil and Duncan

Sub MacLeod

Att 2346


16/8/1975 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 3 v 0 Dunfermline

Harper 2
Duncan

Wilson Humphries took charge as Eddie Turnbull was recovering from an op

Pat Stanton was controversially sent off in this game after tangling with Alan Evans and having allegedly said something out of turn to Referee Brian McGinlay

To counter this loss Humphries immediately replaced Ally MacLeod with Des Bremner the change worked a treat as an Alex Edwards inspired HIBS side scored three times through Harper twice and Arthur Duncan

Hibs McArthur Brownlie Schaedler Stanton Barry Blackley Edwards MacLeod Harper Munro and Duncan

Subs Bremner Smith

Att 9636


16/8/1969 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Aberdeen 2 v 2 Hibernian

McBride 43
Grant 62

Hibs twice fought back to equalise goals from Hermiston pen 35 and Hamilton 61 to hang on to their slim hopes of qualifying from the group stages

HIBS Marshall Shevlane Davis Wilkinson Black Stanton Marinello Grant McBride O’Rourke and Stevenson

Sub Hamilton for Marinello

Att 14500



16/8/1967 Scottish League Cup Group 3

Hibernian 1 v 0 Motherwell

Colin Grant


Hibs Allan Duncan Davis Stanton Madsen McGraw Quinn Grant Stein Cormack and Stevenson

Att 7900



16/8/1961 Scottish League Cup Group 1

Hibernian 2 v 1 Partick Thistle

E Stevenson 2

Future Scotland Manager Ally MacLeod made his home debut on the left wing and that meant that ‘Stevie’ could switch to the right wing The arrival of another winger served as a wake up call to Eric Stevenson and he responded by scoring twice and was unlucky when a third effort struck the Partick goalkeeper Jimmy Gray and trickled along the line before being cleared

Alex Wright scored for the Jags

Hibs Simpson Fraser Grant Hughes Easton Baird Stevenson Baxter Kinloch Preston and MacLeod

Att 12000



16/8/1947 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Hibernian 5 v 1 Clyde

Linwood 11 87
Smith 25 55 65


Hibs Kerr Govan Howie Buchanan Waldie Finnigan Smith Combe Linwood Turnbull and Ormond

Att 25000



16/8/1922 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 1 v 0 Falkirk

Kerr 2

Paddy Allan makes his debut as an early goal from Peter Kerr seals the points

Hibs Harper McGinnigle Dornan Kerr Miller Shaw Ritchie Dunn Allan Halligan and Walker

Att 12000



16/8/1902 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 1 v 1 Celtic

Gray pen

HIBS draw with Celtic in their first meeting since the victorious Scottish Cup Final Hibs would win the return fixture 4-0 at Parkhead and for a brief period be League Champions and Scottish Cup holders

HIBS Rennie Hogg Glen Handling Gray Robertson Stewart McGeachan Callaghan Atherton and Buchan

Att 7000



Birthdays


Ben Stirling

Didier Agathe

Jonatan Johansson

Dirk Lehmann

Stuart Beedie

Leslie Johnstone RIP



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17/8/2019 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Hibernian 5 v 3 Morton AET

Allan 20
Vela 32
Kamberi 55 104
Doidge 120


https://youtu.be/qyUNeDVLJZU

Hibs bounce back from their 1-6 thrashing at Ibrox with a victory against a stuffy Morton side that left more questions than answers

HIBS Maxwell Gray McGregor Hanlon Stevenson Middleton Slivka Vela Horgan Allan and Kamberi

Subs Jackson Whittaker Murray and Doidge

Att 6500


17/8/2014 Scottish League Championship

Hearts 2 v 1 Hibernian

Al Alagui 92

First blood to Hearts in the three way battle with HIBS and The Rangers for the Championship title and in all honesty HIBS had no one to blame but themselves Captain Liam Craig missing a first half penalty and Scott Robertson 79 getting himself sent off

Hearts converted their penalty and had Sow 88 sent off in a feisty encounter

Hibs Oxley Gray Nelson Stanton Forster Craig Stevenson Handling Robertson Harris and El Alagui

Subs Kennedy Allan

Att 17280



17/8/2003 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 1 v 0 Hearts

O’Connor 90


https://youtu.be/tVqmZvLHESs

Bobby Williamson secured his first and only Edinburgh Derby win with this victory over Hearts

Hibs had Grant Brebner harshly sent off in 36 minutes and the remainder of the match was a steady procession towards the HIBS goal with Hearts unable to capitalise

The game looked as though it was about to fizzle out when substitute Stephen Dobbie played in fellow sub Garry O’Connor who smashed the ball underneath the diving Tepi Moilanen and into the net at his near post

Cue celebrations and a mini pitch invasion at the Final Whistle

Hibs Andersson Orman Smith Doumbe Zambernardi McManus Wiss Brebner Murray Riordan and Brown

Subs Dobbie O’Connor and Glass

Att 14000


17/8/1996 Scottish League SPL

Dundee United 0 v 1 Hibernian

McAllister 27

https://youtu.be/ZiD4s9-Sn3M

Dave Bowman was sent off after 3 minutes for an elbow on Keith Wright but HIBS still had to work for their victory with the smallest man on the park Kevin McAllister heading the only goal in 27 minutes getting on the end of a Barry Lavety cross

After that it was the Gary McSwegan v Jim Leighton show


HIBS Leighton Miller Dow Millen Welsh Hunter Lavety McAllister Wright Jackson and McGinlay

Subs Harper Weir

Att 8600



17/8/1991 Scottish League Premier Division

Motherwell 1 v 1 Hibernian

K Wright

https://youtu.be/Vt_pHYBxx-I


Keith Wright scores his first goal for HIBS

HIBS Budgie Miller Mitchell Milne McIntyre Hunter Orr Hamilton Wright McGraw and McGinlay

Subs Weir Evans

Att 8000



17/8/1988 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Hibernian 4 v 0 Stranraer

Archibald 2
Kane
Evans

Stevie Archibald makes an immediate impact scoring twice on his debut for HIBS

Archibald’s signing had raised eyebrows throughout the land as the Scotland international left Barcelona and chose HIBS over Liverpool as he wanted to play European football

Stevie was indeed a class act able to control the ball immediately with his first touch giving himself time on the ball to weigh up situations more than able to strike the ball accurately with both feet, excellent in the air and expert at maintaining possession in tight situations holding up play and playing others in

In his first season he scored 16 goals from 38 appearances and god knows how many assists

Hibs Goram Hunter Sneddon Orr Rae McIntyre Weir Archibald Kane Collins and Evans

Subs Tortolano McCluskey

Att 8170



17/8/1974 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibs 4 v 0 St Johnstone

Smith 2
Harper
Duncan

Hibs put on a superb display of fast attacking passing football where St Johnstone had keeper Derek Robertson to thank for keeping the score down in a game where the ball hardly left the ground

Hibs Supporters Player Of The Year Jim Black would leave the club after this match to rejoin Airdrieonians

Hibs McArthur Brownlie Schaedler Stanton Spalding Blackley Edwards Smith Harper Gordon and Duncan

Att 11000



17/8/1968 Scottish League Cup Group 1

Hibernian 2 v 0 Falkirk

O’Rourke
Stein


Hibs only had one point from two games so a win was important

Peter Cormack was out injured and his place was taken by Jimmy O’Rourke.

HIBS had the boy wonder young Peter Marinello out on the right wing who taunted and teased the Bairns defence all afternoon

Bob Shankly moved John Blackley back to sweeper and moved Pat Stanton into midfield hoping he would have more of an impact and the move almost paid dividends when he hit the post in the first half with a blistering drive from 25 yards

Hibs took the lead on the hour from an indirect free-kick just outside the box Pat Quinn touched the ball to Jimmy who duly lashed the ball home

The Referee Wilson was not happy and asked for a re-take same move same outcome 1-0 HIBS

Colin Stein settled things a few minutes from the end with his first goal of the season


Hibs Wilson Shevlane Davis Blackley Cousin Stanton Marinello Quinn Stein O’Rourke and Stevenson

Sub McGraw

Att 10000




17/8/1957 Scottish League Cup Group 3

Hibernian 3 v 1 Celtic

Ormond 4
Meechan og 12
Fraser 88

Bobby Collins 18 for Celtic


Hibs Leslie Muir Boyle Nicol Plenderleith Preston Smith Marshall Fraser Harrower and Ormond

Att 35000



Birthdays


Craig Rocastle

Joe McBride Jnr

Paul Wright



At Easter Road They Play John Campbell



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10/8/1996 Scottish League Premier Division Match Day 1

Hibernian 1 v 2 Kilmarnock

Weir

Alex Miller had to boost his squad and he did so by swapping Gareth Evans and David Farrell for Partick’s Ian Cameron :confused:

Brian Welsh and Ian Cameron made their debuts HIBS passed well and created many chances but found Killie goalie Lekovic to be in excellent form

Killie scored a quick 1-2 in five crazy first half minutes through Ally Mitchell and John Henry

Michael Weir replied for HIBS in the second half his last goal for the club

HIBS Leighton Miller Welsh Millen Donald Hunter Weir Cameron Wright Jackson and McGinlay

Subs McAllister Dow

Att 8700



10/8/1993 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Hibernian 2 v 0 Alloa

Wright
Donald

Billy Lamont’s Alloa put up a good fight but the Hibees had a sting in their tail with goals from Keith Wright and returning forgotten man Graeme Donald

Hibs Leighton Miller Tortolano McIntyre Tweed Hunter McAllister Hamilton Wright Jackson and McGraw

Sub Donald

Att 4600



10/8/1991 Scottish League Premier Division Match Day 1

Hibernian 4 v 1 St Mirren

Weir 2
McGinlay 2

Hibs still had a team after the Wallet Mercenary take over bid and they would not die

HIBS Burridge Miller Mitchell Orr McIntyre MacLeod Weir Hamilton Wright McGraw and McGinlay

Subs Evans Lennon

Att 8271



10/8/1985 Scottish League Premier Division Match Day 1

Aberdeen 3 v 0 Hibernian

Aberdeen unfurled the flag but HIBS played well playing four teenagers Collins Weir Hunter and Kane with a young Gordon Juke Box Durie coming off the bench

Hibs Rough Sneddon Munro Kane Rae Hunter Weir Collins Irvine Cowan and McBride

Sub Durie

Att 14857




10/8/1977 Anglo Scottish Cup Preliminaries Leg 1

Hibernian 2 v 1 Ayr United

Smith
Scott

Hibs wore the famous Bukta strip for the first time in this game

HIBS took an early lead when Ayr keeper Hugh Sproat failed to hold a Des Bremner drive and Bobby Smith fired home from close range Big Walker McCall equalised for Ayr but HIBS left it late cult anti-hero Ally Scott firing home a low hard Arthur Duncan cross

HIBS would draw the second leg 2-2 and would reach the Semi Final going out to Peter Cormack’s Bristol City in a bad tempered two legged encounter

Hibs McDonald McNamara Schaedler Brazil Stewart Blackley Duncan Bremner Scott MacLeod and Smith




10/8/1974 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 3 v 1 Rangers

Gordon
Duncan
Harper

A surprisingly easy routine win for HIBS in this League Cup Section game

Rangers had Richard Sharp at centre forward in place of the suspended Derek Parlane

John Blackley and Derek Spalding changing turns to have him in their back pocket

Alan Gordon opened the scoring from his new position in midfield no doubt to accommodate Joe Harper

Ally Scott scored a late consolation for Rangers

Hibs McArthur Brownlie Schaedler Stanton Spalding Blackley Edwards Higgins Harper Gordon and Duncan

Att 23500



10/8/1968 Scottish League Cup

Hibernian 0 v 1 St Johnstone

Kenny Aird scored the only goal

Penalty King Joe Davis missed a penalty

Peter Cormack was carried off with damaged ankle ligaments


HIBS Wilson Shevlane Davis Stanton Cousin McGraw Marinello Quinn Stein Cormack and Stevenson

Subs Murphy for Cormack

Att 9750




10/8/1963 Scottish League Cup Group 2

St Mirren 1 v 1 Hibernian

Martin

Neil Martin having opened the scoring had to leave the field with 20 minutes left leaving HIBS down to 10

Kerrigan scored a late late equaliser for the Saints



10/8/1957 Scottish League Cup Group 3

Hibernian 4 v 0 East Fife

Preston 23
Ormond 35
Smith 58
Turnbull 65



10/8/1946 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 9 v 1 Queen Of The South

Cuthbertson 1 77
Weir 18 20 35 63
Aitkenhead 55
Buchanan 60
Smith 85

The first post war League game and HIBS run riot on a bright sunny day with Gordon Smith scoring one and having several assists and close calls

Armstrong 75 for Queens

This was the first game in which HIBS wore numbered shirts


Hibs Kerr Howie Shaw Kean Aird McCabe Smith Cuthbertson Weir Buchanan and Aitkenhead

Att 35000

Edit:

In the same week Gordon Smith turned down an unofficial approach from Matt Busby to join him at Man Utd the proposed opening bid 40k a record at the time

He turned up at ER with a brand new MG in his favourite colour .....maroon !



Birthdays

Daryl Horgan

Roy O’Donovan



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Matt Busby played for Hibs during the war so would be aware of Gordon Smith. Would have been a superstar in England. Tom Finney was asked how it felt to be the best winger in the world. His response was that that chap Smith at Hibs might not agree with that. Unfortunately Gordon Smith suffered from the Scotland teams being picked by committee.My father said that Laudrup at Rangers was the nearest thing to Gordon Smith that he had seen.

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Matt Busby played for Hibs during the war so would be aware of Gordon Smith. Would have been a superstar in England. Tom Finney was asked how it felt to be the best winger in the world. His response was that that chap Smith at Hibs might not agree with that. Unfortunately Gordon Smith suffered from the Scotland teams being picked by committee.My father said that Laudrup at Rangers was the nearest thing to Gordon Smith that he had seen.

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Gordon Smith : Prince of Wingers by his son Tony Smith is a fantastic read if you get the chance

The first real superstar

Many’s the time HIBS were offered a blank cheque for Smith

Rio springs to mind

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Gordon Smith : Prince of Wingers by his son Tony Smith is a fantastic read if you get the chance

The first real superstar

Many’s the time HIBS were offered a blank cheque for Smith

Rio springs to mind

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Spoke to a few Jambo friends of my dad who said when Hearts were playing away they would go to Easter Road to watch Gordon Smith. Dundee and Hearts fans would agree that they won the league due to having him in their side. Only wish had been able to see him in the flesh.
Did the famous five not give Man Utd a hammering.

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Spoke to a few Jambo friends of my dad who said when Hearts were playing away they would go to Easter Road to watch Gordon Smith. Dundee and Hearts fans would agree that they won the league due to having him in their side. Only wish had been able to see him in the flesh.
Did the famous five not give Man Utd a hammering.

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7-3 in Gordon Smith’s Testimonial

They never beat Arsenal though but we’ve sorted that now :greengrin

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7-3 in Gordon Smith’s Testimonial

They never beat Arsenal though but we’ve sorted that now :greengrin

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A pedant says..............

if that is the game Jimmy Souness scored 4 then it wasn’t the famous five:greengrin:greengrin

They had a few friendlies with United.

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7-3 in Gordon Smith’s Testimonial

They never beat Arsenal though but we’ve sorted that now :greengrin

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Was looking at the number of friendlies and the opposition we played in the early to mid fifties makes interesting reading.

Meant to say that I was at the 2-2 game with Arsenal in the mid 50s. In total control until goalie Willie Miller threw two in during the fast 15 minutes.

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A pedant says..............

if that is the game Jimmy Souness scored 4 then it wasn’t the famous five:greengrin:greengrin

They had a few friendlies with United.

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15/9/1952 Gordon Smith Testimonial

Hibernian 7 v 3 Manchester United

Reilly 3
Turnbull 2
Ormond
Smith

Man Utd goals Rowley 2 and Pearson

Jimmy Souness dinnae play

Hibs McCracken Govan Howie Gallacher Paterson Combe Smith Johnstone Reilly Turnbull and Ormond

Att 28000


:greengrin:greengrin:greengrin

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15/9/1952 Gordon Smith Testimonial

Hibernian 7 v 3 Manchester United

Reilly 3
Turnbull 2
Ormond
Smith

Man Utd goals Rowley 2 and Pearson

Jimmy Souness dinnae play

Hibs McCracken Govan Howie Gallacher Paterson Combe Smith Johnstone Reilly Turnbull and Ormond

Att 28000


:greengrin:greengrin:greengrin

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The Jimmy Souness game was in Manchester. So your next task is to provide full details.

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The Jimmy Souness game was in Manchester. So your next task is to provide full details.

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8/3/1952 Friendly Challenge Match

Manchester CITY 1 v 4 Hibernian

Souness 4



:greengrin:greengrin:greengrin:greengrin

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8/3/1952 Friendly Challenge Match

Manchester CITY 1 v 4 Hibernian

Souness 4



:greengrin:greengrin:greengrin:greengrin

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I was only 10 at the time(I’ve always thought it was United). He was a very polite man,Jimmy,and never corrected me when I enthused about it at a BB do.

I’ll try and think of something else for you.

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I was only 10 at the time(I’ve always thought it was United). He was a very polite man,Jimmy,and never corrected me when I enthused about it at a BB do.

I’ll try and think of something else for you.

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Good cricketer I believe :greengrin

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Good cricketer I believe :greengrin

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And his brother Ronnie. They were also good cross country runners. All the things I was less than brilliant at:greengrin

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I was only 10 at the time(I’ve always thought it was United). He was a very polite man,Jimmy,and never corrected me when I enthused about it at a BB do.

I’ll try and think of something else for you.

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And is Jamie Gullan's grandfather!

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And is Jamie Gullan's grandfather!

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And most unfortunately died before Jamie was born.

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And most unfortunately died before Jamie was born.

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Yep....climbing accident just after he retired.

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Two down three to go

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Mark Fulton?

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Yep....climbing accident just after he retired.

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I worked at the company he retired from. Hearing the news that morning was the worst moment of my working life

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Mark Fulton?

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Beastie McCluskey Mark Caughey Billy Kirkwood Willie Irvine #2 and Stuart Beedie

18/8/2012 Scottish League SPL

St Mirren 1 v 2 Hibernian

Griffiths 15 61

https://youtu.be/kubuchv_uZc


Talisman Leigh Griffiths in deadly form against Danny Lennon’s top of the League Saintees drilling home the first from just inside the box and turning on a sixpence in the box after good work by Eoin Doyle in the second half

Special mention for Ben Williams with a first half penalty save and Darren McGregor of St Mirren who was stretchered off

Hibs Williams Clancy Hanlon McPake Maybury Deegan Claros Cairney Wotherspoon Griffiths and Doyle

Subs Sproule Kuqi Caldwell

Att 5000



18/8/2001 Scottish League SPL

Rangers 2 v 2 Hibernian

McManus 19
Orman 59

https://youtu.be/XFkmwQgCNgs


Hibs took the lead when Tam McManus buried a shot from the edge of the box Rangers fought back through goals from Hughes and Flo but a glorious drive from 25 yards from Alen Orman guaranteed HIBS a share of the points

Paco Luna missed an AEK type last minute header to grab the points for the Hibees in the dying minutes

Russell Latapy started for Rangers but after initially looking lively was hooked on the hour

HIBS Colgan Fenwick Orman Sauzee Laursen Jack Murray Brebner O’Neil Brewster and McManus

Subs Luna Zitelli De La Cruz

Att 45000



18/8/1987 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Hibernian 3 v 2 Montrose

May
Tortolano
McCluskey

Hibs Rough Hunter McIntyre May Chisholm Mitchell Kane McGovern Cowan Collins and Tortolano

Sub McCluskey

Att 3800


18/8/1984 Scottish League Premier Division

Dundee 0 v 1 Hibernian

Bobby Thomson

HIBS Rough McKee Schaedler Sneddon Rae McNamara Callachan Jamieson Kane Rice and Thomson

Subs Brazil and McGachie

Att 7000



18/8/1982 Scottish League Cup Group 3

Clydebank 0 v 2 Hibernian

Murray
Rae

Hibs took the lead through an early goal from Gary Murray Jackie McNamara playing a forward role in midfield picked up a bad ankle knock but refused to leave the field until Gordon Rae had secured the points in the 89th minute

HIBS McArthur Sneddon Schaedler Brazil Welsh McNamara Callachan Rae Murray Turnbull and Thomson

Subs McWilliams Rodier

Att 1414


18/8/1976 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Hibernian 1 v 1 Rangers

Ally Scott

An end to end affair with Iain Munro scoring for Rangers

Hibs McDonald Brownlie Smith Bremner Stewart Blackley Fyfe Edwards Scott Muir and Duncan

Sub MacLeod

Att 25000





18/8/1973 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 1 v 0 Dumbarton

Gordon 8

Alan Gordon bulleted home a superb diving header for the only goal of the game

HIBS McArthur Bremner Schaedler Stanton Black Blackley Smith Edwards Gordon Munro and Cropley

Subs Duncan for Smith Higgins for Munro

Att 11318


18/8/1971 Scottish League Cup Group 1

Hibernian 2 v 0 Dundee United

Cropley
O’Rourke pen

A long looping forward header from Johnny Hamilton allowed Alex Cropley to sprint clear and beat the offside trap dashing in at an angle to beat Hamish McAlpine with a crisp left foot strike

On 71 minutes Sodje was pulled down inside the box by Andy Rolland Jimmy O’Rourke making no mistake from the spot sending McAlpine in the opposite direction

Hibs Herriot Brownlie Schaedler O’Rourke Black Stanton Stevenson Hamilton Baker Hazel and Cropley

Att 12700




18/8/1965 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Hibernian 1 v 0 St Mirren

E Stevenson

This game probably best remembered for goalkeeper Willie Wilson going off injured with a head knock and reappearing with a bandaged head out on the right wing Peter Cormack performing admirably in goal pulling off one world class save from Saints centre forward Redpath

The only goal of the game arrived when Eric Stevenson met a fine Pat Quinn cross field ball on the volley to give the Saints goalie no chance from just outside the box


HIBS Wilson Simpson Davis Stanton McNamee Baxter Cormack Quinn Scott Martin and Stevenson

Att 8500



18/8/1962 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Hibernian 3 v 2 Third Lanark

McCormack og
John Fraser 2

A thrilling encounter against the now defunct Third Lanark



18/8/1954 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 2 v 0 Aberdeen

Preston 17 40

Young Tommy Preston steps up to the plate covering for the injured Lawrie Reilly




18/8/1945 Scottish Southern League

Hibernian 2 v 1 Rangers

Milne 14 77

Williamson replied for Rangers

Hibs Downie Govan Hall Finnigan Aird Kean Smith McMullen Milne Bogan and Peat

Att 30000



Birthdays

Graham Fyfe

Jimmy Harrower RIP





At Easter Road They Play John Campbell

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The 1984 game against Dundee reminded of the strange situation that we used to get better attendances against some of the other mid sized clubs away from home in those days.

We'd quite often have pretty crappy home crowds like 5,000 or so, then get a massive away support against the same club.


TBF, I often preferred away matches as well, as the atmosphere was often a lot better.

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The 1984 game against Dundee reminded of the strange situation that we used to get better attendances against some of the other mid sized clubs away from home in those days.

We'd quite often have pretty crappy home crowds like 5,000 or so, then get a massive away support against the same club.


TBF, I often preferred away matches as well, as the atmosphere was often a lot better.

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The match report I read said HIBS brought up a huge travelling support

On a side note not everyone’s cup of tea but I liked Bobby Thomson for HIBS

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The match report I read said HIBS brought up a huge travelling support

On a side note not everyone’s cup of tea but I liked Bobby Thomson for HIBS

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I agree with you about Bobby Thomson. Remember a Willie Miller tackle on him which was a career ending one fortunately his foot was not planted on the ground. Referee only booked Miller as he was surrounded by the whole Aberdeen team.

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I agree with you about Bobby Thomson. Remember a Willie Miller tackle on him which was a career ending one fortunately his foot was not planted on the ground. Referee only booked Miller as he was surrounded by the whole Aberdeen team.

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Was a hard player with not too little skill maybes took it a step too far against St Johnstone :greengrin

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Was a hard player with not too little skill maybes took it a step too far against St Johnstone :greengrin

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Was at the game the speed of his run towards the linesman would have left Usain Bolt in his wake.

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Was at the game the speed of his run towards the linesman would have left Usain Bolt in his wake.

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Aye looked like a push rather than the napper 😃

In the Hibs v Dundee United game was Sodje really fouled for the penalty.

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In the Hibs v Dundee United game was Sodje really fouled for the penalty.

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Sodje as in Sodjer Alex Cropley 😃

Confirmed in Match Programme No 4 1971 versus Kilmarnock another game that the emerging Crops was to score in in a 3-1 victory IIRC

19/8/2018 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Hibernian 3 v 2 Ross County

Gray 15
Mallan 70
Horgan 91


https://youtu.be/h045UKh7FMM


Hibs twice come from behind and grab a stoppage time winner through Daryl Horgan -scoring his first goal for the club- to face Aberdeen in the quarter finals

HIBS Laidlaw Gray Efe Porteous Stevenson Martin Mallan Hyndman Horgan Boyle and Shaw

Subs Whittaker MacLaren Hanlon

Att 8500


19/8/2006 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 3 v 1 Motherwell

Benji
Brown
Jones

Moroccan flair added to the teenage kicks turned this game for HIBS Benjelloun opened the scoring and Zemmama supplied a sublime backheeled flick to leave Scott Brown a clear route on goal

Rob Jones providing the third with a superb header to show what his aerial prowess would bring to the HIBS party

Man of the Match Scott Brown can be forgiven his error in the last minute that allowed Scott MacDonald in for Motherwell’s consolation as his through ball for Benji’s goal and his sublime finish for HIBS’ second showed that this is a young man going places

Hibs Zibi Whittaker Murphy Martis Jones Thomson Stewart Zemmama Brown Benji and Fletcher

Subs Sproule Shiels Glass

Att 13275



19/8/2000 Scottish League SPL

Aberdeen 0 v 2 Hibernian

Latapy pen 5
Paatelainen 78

Hibs Colgan T Smith G Smith McIntosh Sauzee Laursen Jack Latapy O’Neil Paatelainen and Agathe

Subs Bannerman Zitelli Lehmann

Att 13150



19/8/1998 Scottish League Cup Round 3

Hibernian 1 v 0 Aberdeen

Crawford pen

First Division Hibs’ Stevie Crawford beats Jim Leighton from the penalty spot to send Alex Miller’s Premiership table topping Aberdeen side crashing out of the League Cup

Hibs Olly Renwick Elliot Guggi Hughes Dennis Rougier Skinner Crawford Lavety and McGinlay

Sub Lovell

Att 8000


19/8/1995 Scottish League Cup Round 2

Hibernian 3 v 1 Stenhousemuir

D Jackson 2 (1 pen)
McGinlay

The Hibees easily defeat Eamonn Bannon’s Stenny side at Easter Road

Alex Miller is not impressed by HIBS’ lazy performance and he keeps his players in the Changing Room for a 45 minute roasting

Hibs Leighton Donald Mitchell McGinlay Tweed C Jackson Weir Millen D Jackson Harper and O’Neill

Subs McAllister Miller

Att 7000


19/8/1989 Scottish League Premier Division

Hibernian 2 v 0 Rangers

Houchen
Weir

https://youtu.be/qoCe6AbuPxE


Oh Houchey! Houchey!

Hibs defeat Rangers thanks to a drive from outside the box from Keith Houchen and a Michael Weir second half goal following a fumble from Bonni Ginzburg

Special mention to John Collins and Andy Goram who were both outstanding

Hibs Goram Kane Sneddon Cooper Mitchell Hunter Weir Orr Houchen Collins and Hamilton

Att 21000



19/8/1978 Scottish League Premier Division

Hibernian 0 v 0 Rangers

Rab Kilgour and Ralph Callachan make their debuts in an evenly contested game

Sir Alf Ramsay was at this game and he rated Jackie McNamara a very good all-round player with an excellent positional sense and was his Man of the Match


Hibs McDonald Kilgour Smith Bremner Fleming McNamara Murray MacLeod Duncan Callachan and Higgins

Subs O’Brien for Murray Rae for Callachan

Att 22500




19/8/1972 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Hibernian 3 v 0 Queen Of The South

O’Rourke 2
Duncan

Veteran goalkeeper Alan Ball keeps the score down with brilliant saves from Stanton and Gordon among others

HIBS would win the Scottish League Cup in this season

Hibs Herriot Brownlie Schaedler Stanton Black Blackley Hamilton O’Rourke Gordon Cropley and Duncan

Att 7000




19/8/1970 Scottish League Cup Group 4

Airdrieonians 2 v 4 Hibernian

Stanton 2 (1 pen)
McBride
Duncan

Airdrie are awarded two penalties in the first six minutes with Gordon Marshall saving one and Mark Cowan converting the other

Second half HIBS come out of the traps flying with Stanton scoring twice Joe McBride scoring one and a screamer from Arthur Duncan

Drew Busby with a late consolation for Airdrie

Hibs Marshall Brownlie Schaedler Blackley Black Stanton Stevenson Graham McBride Hamilton and Duncan

Sub Blair for McBride

Att 4200



19/8/1967 Scottish League Cup Group 3

Hibernian 3 v 1 Clyde

Davis pen
Cormack
Grant

Hastings for Clyde

Hibs Allan Duncan Davis Stanton Madsen McGraw Quinn Grant Stein Cormack and Stevenson

Att 10000



19/8/1964 Scottish League Division One

Clyde 1 v 3 Hibernian

Neil Martin 2
Jim Scott


Hibs Wilson Fraser Parke Stanton McNamee J Stevenson Hogg Hamilton Scott Martin and Cormack

Att 2374


19/8/1961 Scottish League Cup Group 1

Hibernian 2 v 2 Celtic

Kinloch 2

Hibs trail 0-2 to goals from John Hughes and Stevie Chalmers but a double from Bobby Kinloch the first a left footer from a Davy Gibson flick the second a fine header from a Stevenson lob was enough to bag a point

HIBS Simpson Fraser Grant Baxter Easton Baird E Stevenson Gibson Kinloch Preston and MacLeod

Att 24000




19/8/1959 Scottish League Division One

Hibernian 2 v 1 Aberdeen

Joe Baker 2

Willie Ormond is the provider of two excellent crosses to allow the Baker Boy to volley a double past Aberdeen incumbent Tubby Ogston to grab a first League win of the season

Hibs Wilson Grant Young Preston Plenderleith Baxter Scott Fox Baker Aitken and Ormond

Att 12000




19/8/1950 Scottish League Cup Group 2

Falkirk 4 v 5 Hibernian

Smith 23 53 88
Turnbull 30
Ormond 83

Brockville for Thrills as HIBS trail the Bairns 0-3 thanks to a double from former hibee Angus Plumb who scored his first in 10 seconds

Hibs fought back to make it 3-3 but Wright of Falkirk made it 4-3 from the penalty spot with his second of the match

Willie Ormond and Gordon Smith with two late late counters ensured the points went back to Easter Road

Hibs Younger Govan Cairns Howie Paterson Combe Smith Johnstone Reilly Turnbull and Ormond

Att 18000




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51 years ago today I made my first visit to the Holyground to see Hibs vs Rangers in the League Cup quarter final first leg. Came up on the bus from Hawick, telling my mother I was at the Youth centre. A crowd of 34,000 packed into ER. I stood on the upper section of the old East terrace. Despite losing 3-1 my love affair with Hibs was cemented as we played with cavalier style down the slope
in our famous green tops with white sleeves.

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51 years ago today I made my first visit to the Holyground to see Hibs vs Rangers in the League Cup quarter final first leg. Came up on the bus from Hawick, telling my mother I was at the Youth centre. A crowd of 34,000 packed into ER. I stood on the upper section of the old East terrace. Despite losing 3-1 my love affair with Hibs was cemented as we played with cavalier style down the slope
in our famous green tops with white sleeves.

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Hibs’ cause that night not helped by conceding a goal in the first minute

Arthur ‘Nijinsky’ Duncan pulled one back at 0-2 but HIBS were caught with the sucker punch twenty minutes from the end as they went in search of the equaliser

Hibs would lose the second leg 1-3 with Johnny Graham scoring

Prior to this game HIBS had been flying and would beat Celtic 2-0 at Easter Road 10 days later with Joe McBride scoring a double one of which a swivel and shot on the turn still described as one the best goals ever seen at Easter Road

Scorers for Rangers Graham Fyfe 2 and Alfie Conn

Hibs Marshall Brownlie Schaedler Blackley Black Stanton Graham Blair McBride McEwan and Duncan

Sub Cropley for Blackley

Att 37355


Interesting images of the Celtic game

https://www.thecelticwiki.com/1970-0...ue-division-1/

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Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS

Hibs’ cause that night not helped by conceding a goal in the first minute

Arthur ‘Nijinsky’ Duncan pulled one back at 0-2 but HIBS were caught with the sucker punch twenty minutes from the end as they went in search of the equaliser

Hibs would lose the second leg 1-3 with Johnny Graham scoring

Prior to this game HIBS had been flying and would beat Celtic 2-0 at Easter Road 10 days later with Joe McBride scoring a double one of which a swivel and shot on the turn still described as one the best goals ever seen at Easter Road

Scorers for Rangers Graham Fyfe 2 and Alfie Conn

Hibs Marshall Brownlie Schaedler Blackley Black Stanton Graham Blair McBride McEwan and Duncan

Sub Cropley for Blackley

Att 37355


Interesting images of the Celtic game

https://www.thecelticwiki.com/1970-0...ue-division-1/

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Thanks for brining back the memories. I think I was overcome by the excitement of my first game at ER. I can remember other matches after this one much more clearly. And not 34,000 but 37k+, I was stunned by the size of the crowd as a 14 year old.

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Thanks for brining back the memories. I think I was overcome by the excitement of my first game at ER. I can remember other matches after this one much more clearly. And not 34,000 but 37k+, I was stunned by the size of the crowd as a 14 year old.

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Yip remember I used to climb to the top of Shaw Heights before every game and was knackered by the time I reached the top

What a vista. Arthur’s Seat to the left I would look down on the green postage stamp that was the pitch and watch for the teams to run out like ants

I would wait for HIBS to decide which way they were kicking and then proceed to make my way behind the respective away goal

One particular memory is John Blackley’s ball juggling prematch routine truly a joy to behold

GGTTH

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Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS

Hibs’ cause that night not helped by conceding a goal in the first minute

Arthur ‘Nijinsky’ Duncan pulled one back at 0-2 but HIBS were caught with the sucker punch twenty minutes from the end as they went in search of the equaliser

Hibs would lose the second leg 1-3 with Johnny Graham scoring

Prior to this game HIBS had been flying and would beat Celtic 2-0 at Easter Road 10 days later with Joe McBride scoring a double one of which a swivel and shot on the turn still described as one the best goals ever seen at Easter Road

Scorers for Rangers Graham Fyfe 2 and Alfie Conn

Hibs Marshall Brownlie Schaedler Blackley Black Stanton Graham Blair McBride McEwan and Duncan

Sub Cropley for Blackley

Att 37355


Interesting images of the Celtic game

https://www.thecelticwiki.com/1970-0...ue-division-1/

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I think the 2-0 Celtic game was Tom Hart’s first as owner. McBride was great that day.

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I think the 2-0 Celtic game was Tom Hart’s first as owner. McBride was great that day.

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Yip confirmed in the Match Report link

I thought Willie MacFarlane was a great Manager for HIBS had us playing flowing attacking football top of the League and an eye for a player just a shame Tom Hart did not agree

Eddie Turnbull was no bad as well :greengrin

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Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS

Yip remember I used to climb to the top of Shaw Heights before every game and was knackered by the time I reached the top

What a vista. Arthur’s Seat to the left I would look down on the green postage stamp that was the pitch and watch for the teams to run out like ants

I would wait for HIBS to decide which way they were kicking and then proceed to make my way behind the respective away goal

One particular memory is John Blackley’s ball juggling prematch routine truly a joy to behold

GGTTH

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I remember the changing of ends. Could never happen now with some teams.

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I remember the changing of ends. Could never happen now with some teams.

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Remember it as good natured light hearted banter apart from the Hun Celtic and Hearts who all insisted on trying to take over our Cave :greengrin