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It’s still painful to watch that - even after all these years ……Quote:
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I'm confused, nothing new there! Who was it who dived for the pen in the 1973 replay at ER in front of 49,007? So many Rangers' dives, so many penalties!! On that subject, McCoist's dive in the Souness/Beastie game must surely be a contender!!
28th February 1973 a tough and controversial gameQuote:
Originally Posted by brog
Arthur scored for us in a 1-2 replay defeat
Wee Tommy McLean scored two for them the last a late controversial penalty Pretty sure he dived
Jimmy Jimmy O’Rourke was strangely missing for HIBS as ET was having one of his brainstorms
Of course, McLean!! IIRC it was a worse dive than McDonald'sQuote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Thanks Billy had not seen the YouTube clip of McDonalds dive. Was in the North Stand so had a great view of it. It looked even worse than that clip showed. My Dad who was a referee and would defend refs could not explain such a ridiculous decision. He said that the refs performance that day was the worst he had seen, the Hamburg ref was next worst performance. He was not at that Aberdeen game which is on YouTube.
I think that was the same game that we had a corner , Forsyth flattened Edwards in the box as the ball came over,the ball was headed out,Duncan thrashed it into the roof of the net and the ref blew his whistle. We thought he'd given the penalty so he could chalk off the goal but no he'd given offside against Edwards as he tried to get up.Quote:
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Correct!Quote:
Originally Posted by ancient hibee
Remember leaving that game feeling as if we had been robbed almost 50 years later like a dagger through my heart
Shudda gone to extra time and there would only be one winner
It's these sort of memories that make 2016 so sweet.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Nothing seems to have changed in 50 years. McLean and Alex McDonald were serial divers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ancient hibee
I remember the game Mickey walked over a prostrate Doddy and never even waited for the red and ran straight up the tunnel leaving MacDonald to lift up his light blue top to examine the damageQuote:
Originally Posted by gbhibby
No quarter given or asked in them days
Who were the 3 that weren`t Hibs supporters ? 8 would probably be the highest number since 19th century .Quote:
Originally Posted by brog
2006 HIBS defeat Hearts in the League Cup Quarter Final at Easter RoadQuote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
1-0 going on 10
Birthday wishes to Kevin Crunchie McAllister
https://youtu.be/L88RyPZ_ECs
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2019 Crazy limbs in the Away End in Perth as Christian Doidge bags a hat-trick
I miss him
https://youtu.be/XHkW2dWq10k
2013 Hibernian 0 v 2 Inverness CT
Jimmy Nicholl loses his second and last game in charge as Interim Manager
2004 Scottish League Cup Quarter Final
Dundee United 2 v 1 Hibernian AET
Deeks fires us ahead but what is Simon Brown doing?
https://youtu.be/9qNI6eTwXcA
1991 Scottish League Premier Division
Dundee United 1 v 1 Hibernian
Gordon Hunter scores a late equaliser at Tannadice
https://arabarchive.co.uk/matchdetails.php?id=1849
1974 Scottish League Division One
Dunfermline Athletic 1 v 1 Hibernian
Alan Gordon opened the scoring and HIBS looked in control Erich Schaedler was then sent off and Alex Kinninmouth equalised for the Pars
This game is significant in that it was Alan Gordon’s last game for HIBS scoring 82 goals in 145 appearances
Hibs McArthur Bremner Schaedler Stanton Spalding Blackley Duncan Cropley Harper Gordon and Munro
Sub Smith for Harper
Att 8029
1960 Q HIBS were drawn against Lausanne-Sport on this day in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup can anyone remember the score?
That game in Perth in 2019 was just amazing.
After watching soul destroying displays by Hibs, and then to see them play so creatively and seemingly without a care in the world was just a shock.
At the time, it made me really wish Eddie May was appointed Head Coach
My one regret is that I lost a Bridie when we scored the third goal. I've still not got over that :-(
Not a fan of Thogden and Thogdad but I thought they captured an away day really wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
No doubt the following week they would be in the Hearts end
Joe Davis, Big Bad John McNamee and Jim Scott.Quote:
Originally Posted by IberianHibernian
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2010 Colin Calderwood’s Hibs pull off a surprise 0-3 win at Ibrox
2007 Scottish Women’s Premier League Cup Final
Hibernian Ladies 4 v 0 Queens Park Ladies
1990 HIBS play their first ever match at McDiarmid Park with future Saint Paul Wright scoring for the Hibees in a 1-1 draw
1979 George Best arrives at Easter Road for possible signing talks
https://youtu.be/LIDVmLCkgRY
Thing that strikes me is the low attendances at all our home games.Quote:
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2012 Leigh Leigh Super Leigh opens the scoring with a tremendous first time volley against Dundee United
1972 Jimmy Jimmy O’Rourke bags his fifth hat-trick of the season taking him up to 25 goals and it is still only early November
1969 Falkirk forward Johnny Graham makes a surprise debut for HIBS and scores a match winning brace
1967 Bob Shankly returns to Dens with his HIBS team
Archive footage
https://hibstv.hibernianfc.co.uk/video/1968
1944 A young Gordon Smith scores a hat-trick versus Airdrieonians taking him up to 10 goals in seven games
1882 Before the formation of Leagues the Scottish Cup was the only national competition in Scottish Football HIBS entertained Glasgow club Partick Thistle on this day and drew a tough encounter 2-2 The HIBS side contained Owen Brannigan and Malachy Byrne from the original 1875 side HIBS won the replay in Glasgow 4-1 one week later but would go out to Arthurlie 0-6 after successfully appealing a 3-4 reverse
As a 13yo I remember Johnny Graham's debut, great interest back then as signing players was such a rarity and especially when playing after just signing that afternoon. I remember getting home after the game and my Jambo supporting [late] dad asking how the new player got on and I told him that he was constantly on the move and would shoot every chance he got, with a two goal debut and joining a forward line that included Marinello, McBride, Cormack & Stevenson, our new signing settled in well and was soon rewarded with a Scottish League cap.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Great game and great daysQuote:
Originally Posted by Ray_
I remember us singing ‘Johnny Graham King of Scotland’ in the Cave
I don’t think Eddie Turnbull fancied him much
RIP
we sang the following Hark the herald angels sing glory to the new born king, Johnny Johnny graham na na na na na na na .Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Could have sworn it was:Quote:
Originally Posted by eastterrace
“ Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na
Johnny Graham
Johnny Graham Johnny Graham Johnny Graham King of Scotland
King of Scotland King of Scotland King of Scotland Johnny Graham”
That was my 12 year old memory but now you are dealing with a man who cannae mind what he had for his tea last night :greengrin
"The Cave" my area of preference then as well. Nah, but to be fair, Jimmy O'Rourke becoming a major part of the team definitely was the right call by ET :greengrin.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
I can’t remember ever singing that and I stood in the cave back then age 16 or 17 .Maybe someone on hibs net can put or memory at ease and confirm what they know.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
IIRC in his first interview after joining Hibs, he explained that whilst playing for Falkirk he grew a beard so as to stand out from his team mates! Seems it worked but I guess nowadays you'd have to shave your beard off to stand out :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?...e-Player-SongsQuote:
Originally Posted by eastterrace
Post#25
Got to be honest and say I have never heard ‘Hark The Herald Angels Sing ‘ emanating from the Cave in all my delinquent years :greengrin
I’ve said this on Facebook a few times in hibs groups and some have come back saying yes they remember it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Not doubting you for one minute defo remember the Na Na Na bit and the King of Scotland referenceQuote:
Originally Posted by eastterrace
Great times !
yeh football was miles better more skill full than the mince we watch now. Still hibs are in the blood and support them evermore. ( now that’s another song we don’t hear now).Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
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1988 Hearts hadn’t lost to HIBS at Tynecastle in 10 years
Who can forget Stevie Archibald’s iconic salute at the Gorgie Road end as he raced onto Kano’s flick on calmness personified to bury his left footed drive low into Henry Smith’s bottom far post corner to claim the points for the 10 men
1898 Scottish League Division One
St Bernard’s 1 v 3 Hibernian
Hamilton Handling pen
Tommy Gemmell
Bobby Atherton
Hibs made the short journey to win this local derby comfortably by three goals to one
Hibs McCall Ritchie Nelson Breslin Handling Robertson Gemmell McGuigan Reid Atherton and Porter
Att 2000
1902 Scottish Cup and 1903 Scottish League Championship winning Captain Bobby Atherton would play 97 times for HIBS scoring 36 goals He served aboard the SS Britannia during the First World War and was tragically lost at sea in the English Channel on 19th October 1917 after the ship struck an enemy mine
Lest We Forget
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WiSHES TO JIM ‘CILLA’ BLACKQuote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
234 Appearances one goal and no bookings some record for a Centre Half
Played every game in that fantastic season 1972/73 58 in all
My overriding memory of Jim is watching him on Sportsnight With Coleman versus Leeds United away in 1973 the first time they had seen the overlapping Centre Half as he cut through the centre of a very good Leeds United team like a knife through butter
Many Happy Returns
:partyhibb
Another great game, that Leeds team went through to near the end of February before they got beat during that season, creating a new English record. Hibs absolutely hammered them in the most one sided 0-0 draw I've ever seen. I had moved to Greater Manchester around three months earlier and my then boss, Jim, said the following morning, after he watched the highlights, was amazed how Hibs, particularly Alex Cropley & Tony Higgins, time and time again tore the then invincible Leeds apart, he said he knew now why I was always going on about Hibs.Quote:
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my first ever conversation with Jim, Jim, do you like football? Me, is the Pope a catholic? Jim, What did you think of the Scotland v Northern Ireland game in May? Me, I was there, it was all Scotland but we couldn't convert the chances, Jim, what was Trevor Anderson like? Me, although he got the winner, he did nothing else, he was a forward and it was all Scotland, Jim, that's my brother!
Glad to say we got on really well following that conversation, his brother played for Man U and he used to take me to the games and we used to get in via the players entrance, but they were never anywhere near as good as the team I had left behind in Edinburgh.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AIREYQuote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
30 TODAY
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
:partyhibb
Tommy Craig was a very clever player, we could do with someone like him just now.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Great wee playerQuote:
Originally Posted by Crunchie
Was a hard working precision passer of the ball with a lethal shot and a deadly penalty kick
Strangely enough never played in a winning HIBS team
I remember him as being pants actually. Great for the toon back in the 70s, rubbish for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
One game, a four nil defeat at Cappielow, sticks in the mind. Craig was rotten.
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IIRC he was more a Coach than a player helping out John BlackleyQuote:
Originally Posted by Kato
Yes he was well past his best but he still had the touches and I am sure Messrs Durie Rice Kane and Hunter benefited from his knowledge and experience
JC certainly had a lot of time for him
As I said never won a game with HIBS drew 4 lost 7
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2020 Scottish League Cup Group B
Hibernian 4 v 1 Dundee
Mallan 10
Nisbet 76
Gullan 80
Hallberg 82
https://youtu.be/ckOhBKZNoQs
Armchair TV fans were treated to four goals in twenty minutes as HIBS sealed top spot in Group B in this thrilling Lockdown encounter
Hibs would be drawn at home against Dundee in the knock out round
Hibs Barnes McGinn McGregor Hanlon Doig Wright Mallan Newell Murphy Boyle and Nisbet
Subs Mackie Gullan Hallberg S McGinn Bradley
2019 Jack Ross is appointed HIBS Manager
2008 Steven Fletcher scores an injury time equaliser as HIBS bounce back from 0-2 down at home to Aberdeen
1980 Willie Ormond’s last game in charge as Manager and 3600 fans witness an entertaining 3-3 draw against Hamilton Academicals as he is forced to retire due to ill health
Ormond would be replaced by Bertie Auld RIP who would ultimately get HIBS promoted in this season
1978 Hibs finally get clearance to unleash their two Norwegian signings Isaak Refvik and Sven Mathisen in a Scottish League Cup quarter final second leg tie at Easter Road against a very good Morton side and it pays off as HIBS triumph 2-0 to reach the Semi Final
1975 Hibs legend Arthur Duncan scores a double at Somerset Park on his way to scoring 114 goals in 626 appearances for the club
The Flyer would earn 6 full international caps for Scotland in this year
1969 Scottish League Division One
Dundee United 0 v 1 Hibernian
https://www.arabarchive.co.uk/matchdetails.php?id=2380
Willie MacFarlane’s HIBS were playing some exciting stuff and were sitting top of the League in this top versus second top encounter at Tannadice
All hell is let loose after seventeen minutes when Peter Marinello gathered the ball in midfield shirt outside the shorts long black hair flying in the wind as he went on a mazy run beating man after man before sending a blistering drive beyond Don Mackay from 18 yards for the only goal of the game
Edit;
Jim Black was missing from the HIBS lineup after being sent off versus Kilmarnock Away 25/10/1969
Pat Stanton reverted back to his favoured position of Centre Back
So much for Jim Black’s reputation of never having been booked ?
1902 Hibs defeat Kilmarnock 2-1 at Easter Road on their way to winning the Scottish First Division Championship
Hibs goalscorers were Bernard Breslin and J Stewart
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1996 John Yogi Hughes in only his second appearance for HIBS is sent off in his first Edinburgh Derby at Tiny
1968 Joe McBride follows up his home debut hat-trick against Lokomotiv and fires in four in the League against Clyde at Easter Road and makes the fans forget all about Colin Stein
1963 Debut Boy Willie Hamilton scores a 30 yard screamer to equalise Bobby Murdoch’s opener in a 1-1 draw against Celtic at Easter Road
https://www.thecelticwiki.com/1963-1...ue-division-1/
1957 Gordon Smith sustains the worst injury of his career when his ankle is shattered in a challenge from Airdrieonians’ Jimmy Shanks in a routine 4-1 win at Broomfield
According to my futbology app, 37 years ago today I was at Dumbarton v Hibs at boghead ended 2-2....
I remember being in a Dumbarton boozer with a couple of mates before the match, but have absolutely no recollection of the game. I don't think its an age thing, rather the match was easily forgettable.Quote:
Originally Posted by JXM73
This was one of the earliest games I can recall a group of Hibs Casuals travelling to ….Quote:
Originally Posted by JXM73
Pat Stanton had resigned and been replaced by John Blackley
HIBS and Dumbarton were locked together at the bottom of the League on points above basement club Morton but Dumbarton had the superior goal difference
Things looked bleak when Dumbarton raced into a two goal lead but Gordon Juke Box Durie 46 and 47 pulled two goals back in the second half
Jackie MacNamara was sent off and would face a four game ban
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2012 Hibs flying high at the top of the League are brought crashing down to earth by bottom club Dundee in a 1-3 loss at Dens
Some finish by Benedictus
https://youtu.be/OpMu5t4pKqM
2001 Hibs are in freefall after AEK and lose 0-2 at Pittodrie the second when Nick Colgan comes up for an injury time corner
https://youtu.be/012Ri73o3vI
1990 230k signing from Borussia Dortmund Murdo MacLeod scores a rare goal in a 1-1 home draw with Dunfermline Athletic
1973 John Brownlie makes his long awaited comeback in a 2-1 win over Dundee
Jimmy O’Rourke is denied a hat-trick by former hibee Thomson Allan who saved his penalty kick
1951 Programme from the top of the table clash with East Fife
https://twitter.com/21_dougie/status...724531200?s=21
Was always scary being a young sons fan when fans changed ends at half time too, hearts were the ****miest... maybe why i came a hibee in later life lolQuote:
Originally Posted by bigwheel
Around the back of that old stand …used to like that ground …Quote:
Originally Posted by JXM73
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2006 John Collins takes his ‘Hunting in packs’ lean mean green machine to Fir Park for the first of many classics between the two sides
https://youtu.be/ksxTVJPsV0E
was at this game and it’s the best I’ve seen hibs play since the tornadoes days. We were unstoppable that day. Also was at the 1-0 Aberdeen game when cormack scored his brilliantly taken goal .Quote:
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2011 Leigh Griffiths comes off the bench to score his first goal for HIBS the first of 39 in 78 appearances for the club
https://youtu.be/w_FaVUK-Vuk
1995 Hearts 2 v 1 HIBS
Chris Jackson scores for HIBS Michael O’Neill sent off
Full Match
https://youtu.be/jbvlvl5odwI
1994 HIBS 2 v 2 Motherwell
Some strike by Michael O’Neill
https://youtu.be/dvgDNxueTtA
1983 HIBS cruising to a 4-1 home win against St Johnstone Bobby Thomson loses the plot and decides to run 50 yards to confront the Stand Side linesman who appears to lose his footing and falls backward head over heels onto the track
https://www.scotsman.com/sport/footb...ch-ban-1546962
1881 Scottish Cup Round 4
West Benhar 4 v 4 Hibernian
The West Lothian side had never lost a game at home in their existence
Hibs won the replay 8-0
Now that is an impressive bit of research!Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Borrowed from TwitterQuote:
Originally Posted by Eyrie
The HIBS Are Here
https://twitter.com/thecabbage1963/s...771399175?s=21
Quote:
Originally Posted by eastterracewas at this game and it’s the best I’ve seen hibs play since the tornadoes days. We were unstoppable that day. Also was at the 1-0 Aberdeen game when cormack scored his brilliantly taken goal .Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
That was an amazing game.
I was devastated when they scored.
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2004 Tony Mowbray took his troops to Dundee to give Jim Duffy’s men a footballing lesson winning 4-1
Derek Riordan and Garry O’Connor would score 42 goals between them in this season 2004/05
Q Who was the last HIBS striking duo to amass 42 goals between them in total up until this point in time?
1926 Legendary striker Jimmy McColl was getting on and had moved into the Restaurant business in Glasgow but was very much still a HIBS player and would score on this day in a 2-0 win over Queens Park at Easter Road and would go on to score a further 57 goals and become the first HIBS player to score 100 League goals for the club
1920 Hibs defeat Dundee 2-0 at Easter Road with John Darkie Walker having signed from Kirkintilloch Rob Roy making his debut in front of 12000 fans
Jimmy Dunn and Johnny Halligan scored the goals and we are told that a HIBS supporter with a megaphone led the Hibernian masses in the singing
HIBS were now just one player short of the ‘celebrated team’ of the 1920’s that would reach two Scottish Cup finals
1915 HIBS defeat St Mirren 2-1 at Easter Road both goals coming from new signing from Falkirk Henry Hutchinson 80 and 89
Neil Girdwood missed a second half penalty for the Hibees
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21/11/2020 Scottish League Premiership
Hibernian 2 v 2 Celtic
Murphy 52
Nisbet 58
https://youtu.be/zHyaMRzOQm0
Hibs Rocky McGinn Porteous Hanlon Mackie Boyle Mallan Gogic Newell Murphy and Nisbet
Subs Gray Hallberg S McGinn
2015 Jase scores the only goal as HIBS defeat Alloa away
https://youtu.be/pM6onIQr4c4
21/11/1992 Scottish League Premier Division
Airdrieonians 2 v 0 Hibernian
3000 fans braved the snowy weather to watch this dire defeat
The only thing of note was the huge snowball fight between both sets of supporters on the steep Broomfield terracing
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2014 Alan Stubbs’ newly built HIBS side are starting to click and they defeat Dumbarton 3-6 away
2008 Hibs defeat Motherwell away 4-1
1995 Hibs defeat Partick Thistle at Easter Road with Michael Weir playing centre forward
1980 Bertie Auld’s first game in charge away to Dumbarton ends unsurprisingly 1-1
1975 Hibs defeat Rangers 2-1 when Pat Stanton rises like a salmon in the box to head home two superb goals
1972 Hibs knock Rangers out of the Scottish League Cup at Hampden when John Brownlie probably the best right back in Britain at the time goes on a solo run and drills in a 20 yard low effort past Peter McCloy from the edge of the box
1968 Hibs go down 1-4 in Naples a late strike from Colin Stein gives Hibs a glimmer of hope
Never say never
Onions goal in the semi was unbelievable but not surprising as he was making runs like that week in week out.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
I am sure that Napoli left Altifini at home for the second leg, big mistake.
Another game where we had to ‘run the gauntlet’ of Rangers fans waiting ootside :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by gbhibby
Remember it well, had to hide my Hibs scarf thank god for my dad insisting I wear my Parka that night.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
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2019 Scottish League Premiership
Hibernian 3 v 1 Motherwell
Doidge 21
Kamberi 25
Horgan 86
https://youtu.be/ESRkG4xOIRs
Hibernian came back from a goal down to give Jack Ross a debut victory as Head Coach
Liam Polworth tapped in to put the visitors ahead on 10 minutes but Christian Doidge levelled
Florian Kamberi gave HIBS the lead shortly afterwards and Daryl Horgan put the icing on the cake with a late breakaway goal
Hibs Maxwell Naismith Porteous Hanlon Stevenson Hallberg Slivka Newell Allan Doidge and Kamberi
Subs Boyle Horgan Mallan
Att 15984
Billy the 42 goals question
Was it Steve Cowan and Willie Irvine.
Sure Cowan scored 25+ one season.
Sorry !Quote:
Originally Posted by gbhibby
Close but no
Oh dear !
Cowan and Durie?Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
:top marksQuote:
Originally Posted by Crunchie
You should write a book on watching Hibs through the decades. If you want any assistance I am willing to help.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Decent try though? Thought Steve Cowan would do the same the following season but from memory did he not score hardly any goals. Juke Box was some player thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Count me in.Quote:
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2020 Scottish League Premiership
Hibernian 2 v 2 St Johnstone
P McGinn 36 83
https://youtu.be/pk7_1QSxeV4
Lockdown fitba against our arch nemesis and Hibs come back twice from behind thanks to the unlikely source of Super Paul McGinn
Hibs Rocky Hanlon Porteous McGinn Mackie Boyle Newell Gogic Mallan Murphy and Nisbet
Subs McGregor Doidge and Gullan
1998 New signing Stuart Lovell scores a double in a 4-1 win over St Mirren at Easter Road on the way to winning the old First Division Championship
1979 14000 fans turn up at Love Street to watch George Best make his debut for HIBS The fans are not disappointed as Best shows signs of the old magic spraying the ball about and firing a late consolation goal from the edge of the box past Billy Thomson in the dying minutes
1973 The old double act was still very much alive and kicking as Alan Gordon opened the scoring at Muirton Park and despite intense Saints pressure Jimmy Jimmy O’Rourke added a late second to put the Hibees on easy street
Would highly recommend our own Jonnyboy’s excellent ‘At Easter Road They Play’ and ‘In Colours Green and White’ a hibee History from 1946-1986Quote:
Originally Posted by FilipinoHibs
Ian Colquhoun also does some excellent work but I agree we need more books from the naughties going forwards
Unfortunately like yourself I was working weekends in Financial Services around about then and could only attend games home and away somewhat sporadically
My memories are more the Tornadoes eighties and nineties
GGTTH
Always thought Stevie Cowan was never the same player once Bobby Thompson was suspended and his purple patch stopped then.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbhibby
Maybe talking pish though!
He got injured at the start of his second season iirc.Quote:
Originally Posted by PatHead
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Bobby Thomson and Stevie Cowan never played in the same teamQuote:
Originally Posted by PatHead
Cowan’s run came to an end when Gordon Juke Box Durie was sold to Chelsea for 325k in May ‘86
As another poster pointed out Jukebox was a fantastic player whose power and pace laid on a lot of goals for Cowan
Stevie Cowan also returned the favour by using his physical presence to create space for the Jukebox in the box
Gordon Chisholm is probably the closest that side had to a Bobby Thomson type player
Shows how the memory plays tricks. Am I thinking of Willie Irvine then?Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Willie Irvine #1 only played in the same team as Stevie Cowan four timesQuote:
Originally Posted by PatHead
Willie Irvine #2 only scored twice in 15 appearances and was moved on
Stevie Cowan only scored 4 goals for HIBS in 1986/87
He was transferred to Motherwell where he scored 11 : 51
His best spell coming at Portadown 66: 87 winning two Championships and scored the winning goal in the Irish Cup Final
Sorry I meant Thompson and Irvine together.Quote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Now that WAS a teamQuote:
Originally Posted by PatHead
Irvine socks around the ankles shirt outside the shorts pace to burn
Tommo elbowing everyone out the way including Officials
Bobby Thomson was a lot more skillful than he looked imho
Durie was laying them on a plate for Cowan. I told my mate that Cowan would be lucky to get into double figures without that service.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbhibby
When Durie left Cowan was never as effective again. Stevie Cowan wasn’t exactly an athlete, but he was a good finisher. His partnership with George McCluskey was a bit less dynamic. Cowan took pelters from fans at time too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
HAPPY 70th BIRTHDAY ALAN ROUGHQuote:
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MANY HAPPY RETURNS
INDUCTED INTO THE HIBERNIAN HALL OF FAME 2012
:partyhibb
https://youtu.be/OWS1FNwny9s
Hibs v Hearts attendance of 7,500?
And they claim football was much better in the olden days!
:wink:
That match was a League double over Hearts the first game being a 1-0 victory at Easter Road on 25th October the goal scorer being that man Hamilton HandlingQuote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
A second goal was disallowed as Hibernian took command
We are told that Hearts’ anxiety led to incidents of the ungentlemanly type which scarcely reflected to their credit five Hibernians being crippled
It was however a most welcome victory the Hibernian players were congratulated on all hands while the cheering was loud and long
There's only one Hamilton HandlingQuote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA
30-10-1960 to 25-11-2020
https://youtu.be/Cdf6D19Etmc
16 years today George Best died
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2019 Jack Ross continues his winning start as HIBS Manager as he records a 2-1 win over his old club in Paisley
https://youtu.be/jGmRGfLh6JI
2006 HIBS allow a two goal advantage to slip against Celtic at Easter Road
https://youtu.be/AouNp40mJfM
1983 Alan Sneddon celebrates his 100th game for the cabbage by scoring his first goal for the club in a 2-1 win away to Motherwell
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2005 Tony Mowbray’s Teenage Kick’s defeat Rangers 2-1 at Easter Road the goals coming from Riordan and O’Connor
https://youtu.be/qfj6FISfWmY
2001 Hibs defeat Dundee United 2-1 in the League Cup quarter final McManus and Luna for HIBS Charlie Miller sent off for the Arabs
https://youtu.be/hpGIlL6rIeA
1982 Alan Rough makes his debut for HIBS at Easter Road versus Celtic
https://youtu.be/NPYJ57pMHdA
Billy was it £14k we paid for Mickey. Best player never to have played for Scotland.
YipQuote:
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Great wee player could hit a 50p coin from 50 yards
Short fuse though
His right hook that floored the Hadjuk Split player was a thing of beauty.Quote:
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Got suspended at crucial times in the season.
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On This Day In HistoryQuote:
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2020 Scottish League Cup Round 2
Hibernian 1 v 0 Dundee
Murphy 44
Hibs progressed to the League Cup quarter final for the fourth successive season thanks to a strike from Jamie Murphy just before half-time
Hibs Rocky McGinn McGregor Porteous Mackie Boyle Mallan Newell Murphy Nisbet and Doidge
Subs Hallberg Gullan and Wright
2012 Scottish League SPL
St Johnstone 0 v 1 Hibernian
Cairney 82
https://youtu.be/u75rpDbIGIg
2009 Scottish League SPL
Hibernian 2 v 0 Falkirk
McLean og 33
Riordan 88
Brian McLean deflected Deeks’ shot into his own net for the opener to put HIBS on their way to a nine game unbeaten run and leaving Falkirk bottom of the pile
1998 Scottish League Division One
Hibernian 1 v 0 Airdrieonians
Lovell
1964 Scottish League Division One
Hibernian 2 v 2 Dundee
Hamilton
Quinn
1959 Scottish League Division One
Hibernian 3 v 1 Stirling Albion
Baker 2
Johnstone
Bobby Johnstone had returned to Easter Road and was setting them up for young Joe Baker
The Reserves were winning 5-2 at Annfield making them the highest scoring team in the UK scoring 55:14
1955 Hibs qualify for the European Cup semifinals
Happy Birthday wishes to Scott Allan 30 today
Many Happy Returns
:partyhibb
https://youtu.be/KVgIA-PJ5Bg
Was in the East that day the Celtic fans fired the CS canister into the HIBS fans
I reckon I must have beaten the Olympic record in vaulting the 8 foot fence to get on to the safety of the pitch coughing and spluttering
Someone might have picked this up, but it was actually Hibs Casuals that set off a flare in the old main stand at Ibrox ..not Rangers equivalentQuote:
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Worst ever day at a Football match was also in the East, young girl collapsed in front of me on the pitch. 40 odd people taken to hospital.Quote:
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Yip hit the gantry and ricocheted back to us ?Quote:
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Yeah. That’s the oneQuote:
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Firhill first stadium in Glasgow to have a European Cup game played at it.
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2014 Sir David Gray gives us a glimpse of the future with a headed winner in a tough Scottish Cup tie away to Alloa
1980 Bertie Auld’s first game in charge and Super Ally MacLeod scores the only goal of the game against Dunfermline Athletic at Easter Road to start a run that would lead to the Championship
1975 Arthur Nijinsky Duncan scores HIBS’ first ever Premier League hat-trick
The Flyer is also pulled down inside the box for John Brownlie’s penalty kick
1967 Hibernian send shock waves around Europe as Napoli leading 4-1 from the first leg are unable to repel wave after wave of Hibernian attacks eventually succumbing to a shock 5-0 defeat
Hibs would face English League leaders and red hot competition favourites Leeds United in the next round
1958 Declared unfit to play Joe Baker rises from the treatment table to score a hat-trick against Celtic in a 3-2 victory at Easter Road
1947 Hibs defeat St Mirren 5-0 at Easter Road to start a run that would lead to the First Division title
1879 HIBS draw a Scottish Cup relay 2-2 away to Parkgrove in Glasgow
Scotland’s first coloured footballer Andrew Watson scored for Parkgrove
Both teams qualified for the next round
Ibrox Stadium was built on or near the site of the old Parkgrove Ground after they died
Did Napoli not leave Altifini at home thinking the tie was won.Quote:
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InjuredQuote:
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https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2...t-easter-road/