Does anyone have a link to a quality image of the late great Alan Gordon?
Thanks in advance
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Does anyone have a link to a quality image of the late great Alan Gordon?
Thanks in advance
I have a brilliant one that I got from either here or the Bounce....shows Alan shooting 'doon the slope' in 1972 Vs Leeds.
Very apt as it shows the old east banking behind which looks like it stretches into the sky packed to the gunnels with Hibees!:agree:
Its on my works PC tho'....will put it on tomorrow unless someone else has the same one in the meantime????
I found them:wink:
I was in the East Stand that night too......albeit swimming around in my dad's Mark McGraws.
I had a better view that night Bob, than I did the last time I was in the East.
Last season!
I was there aswell, on the top tier front row just in line with the 18 yard box where Alan Gordon [RIP] had his goal wrongly chopped of for offside after Arthur Duncan had cut the ball back on to his napper which Alan as he always did rose with aplomb and tucked it away.
We got there at 6 as soon as the gates opened so we could get next to the front barrier on the top tier :greengrin
Was there two tiers? I'd always imagined it as one huge big bank of terracing.
What was the East built on, was there anything underneath it, was it sturdy? What was up the very back of it, a wall to stop you falling to the ground? So many questions. I'd love to have experienced the old terracing. Pity I was born about ten years too late :boo hoo:
That was a busy front tier that night as I was there...hibs pummelled leeds that night...if I remember leeds cleared the ball off the line loads of times...hammered them 0-0 (PS what a great photo)
Sorry to crap on everyone's chips, but I wasn't on the Terracing that night. I was in the Cowshed.
I had a brilliant view of Bremner playing keepie-uppie on his own line. Quite the most superb exhibition of the sweeper role I've ever seen in the flesh.
Quality thread lads, and a quality photo :agree:
That match was the year before I was born. To my eyes, that East terrace looks absolutely insane!
However, the current Stand is still basically built on the very lower slope of that hill, so the final link with the old stadium is going.
It does make me think that the new single tier stand is the most appropriate design, though - a nod to the past. Onwards and upwards.