No Hibs connection to my knowledge, except in opposition, but a Scotland player I always admired. BBC reporting that he is “very ill in a hospice with a long term illness”. 74 just. Sad.
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No Hibs connection to my knowledge, except in opposition, but a Scotland player I always admired. BBC reporting that he is “very ill in a hospice with a long term illness”. 74 just. Sad.
yeah read that earlier :( what a shot he had on him, i'm positive some group thing in the 70's done some tests on the power of his shots with one getting measured at 107mph...boom
Very sad. Part of my early 70s upbringing and a great Scottish player to.
Brain Cancer apparently, with weeks left. So very sad
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Known as the hardest shot in football in my youth. If you hit a piledriver it was a "Peter Lorimer" and that's in England.
He has my best wishes.
I guess I'm reaching an age like many of us on here when so many players we held in great esteem or have great memories of are falling by the wayside or becoming ill or suffering other health issues.
Broke my big toe trying a Lorimer special in the back garden after the Zaire game in 74 due to a half hidden buried brick under the ball.
Very sad to hear
Jimmy O'Rourke was in the same Scottish Schoolboys team as Peter.
In fact,they were both in Manchester with their Dads the day Peter signed for Leeds.
They were in Manchester at the invite of Matt Busby who wanted to sign them both.
Leeds reps nipped in and got Peter.
Jimmy chose Hibs over a bunch of top English clubs !!
A real legend of the game. His shot was meant to be the hardest in the game.
Sad all these players are passing on.
I remember when I was a kid maaany moons ago, sometimes when I was taking a shot at a goalkeeper I would scream Peter Lorimer before smashing it at the keeper, great days.
Lorimer was in my subbuteo team in the early 70s along with Best,Law, Cormack etc.Sadly not many of my team left now.For some reason Fitzpatrick was my centre half.
Greatly respected as one of Leeds great Scots when they were the best team in England.
Like his team mate, Billy Bremner, there was transfer speculation in the sixties, in this case it was that Leeds offered cash plus Peter Lorimer for Peter Cormack, an amount that would have dwarfed the 80K that we eventually got from Forest. He was reported to be the hardest shot in Britain in his day.
Thoughts with Peter and his family.
Passed away this morning.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56234156
RIP. A real hero of my childhood.
Very sad. Amazed to read his senior debut for Leeds was when still well shy of his 16th birthday. Imagine a 15 year-old up against some of the hatchet men teams had back in the 60s. Tough kid.
Lorimer claimed in his autobiography and in subsequent interviews that the Hibs v Leeds match of 1973 was a match fixing game.
Revie tipped the wink and Lorimer and some of the "lads" bet on Hibs to win but not all the team were in on it.
I always thought he was just trying to sell his book but was surprised he kept up the story in later interviews.
I never bought into the "match fixing" but maybe "not to bothered" if we lose is more accurate.
sad news, a Leeds great, a Scottish Leeds great
RIP peter lorimer :(
Before my time as a player, but a famous name as part of the great Leeds side of the early seventies and one of Scotland's best. Sad news.
Very sad news, especially for my generation.
Like all football daft kids in Britain, everyone down our park wanted to have a shot like the great Peter Lorimer.
My shots resembled Peter Lorre.
RIP to a legend.
have to agree on that m8,thing that really puzzled me about this was i was sure i remembered reading in a football album one xmas when i was young that he was a Hibs fan when growing up in Dundee, thought perhaps i had imagined it until someone put this up on Facebook today
Just for the record as someone mentioned at the start of this thread that they didn't think there was a Hibs connection but there absolutely is. Peter his brother and my own dad grew up together in Stobswell Dundee and played golf together as well as going to Hibs games. This was in the days when kids that age got trains on their own! They followed Hibs only because they were all obsessed with the game and Hibs were supposed to be the most exciting team to go and see. (hence I grew up a Hibby and a Leeds fan) I have a few stories about the Lorimers my dad told me before he passed away himself (twenty years ago) So as far as I am concerned Peter was a fan and had a soft spot for Hibs without doubt. My dad played in the same school team as him and while Peter managed to sign for Leeds he never managed to play centre mid AND be the team medic for Kirkcaldy Babygrow Athletic !