Alan Gordon picture

[RoxburghHibs]

Does anyone have a link to a quality image of the late great Alan Gordon?

Thanks in advance

[Kevvy1875]

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!

Its on my works PC tho'....will put it on tomorrow unless someone else has the same one in the meantime????

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I found them

[mim]

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Great photo.

....and for those that are feeling all morose about the demise of the tip that is the East Stand, this shows the East that I miss.

I was one of those thousands on the East terrace that night.

[Jonnyboy]

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Great photo.

....and for those that are feeling all morose about the demise of the tip that is the East Stand, this shows the East that I miss.

I was one of those thousands on the East terrace that night.

You and me both Mike

[Pedantic_Hibee]

I was in the East Stand that night too......albeit swimming around in my dad's Mark McGraws.

[plhibs]

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You and me both Mike

I was at that one as well, brings back great memories.

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Great photo.

....and for those that are feeling all morose about the demise of the tip that is the East Stand, this shows the East that I miss.

I was one of those thousands on the East terrace that night.

Me too. That's the East that I remember - not the East as is today.

Edit: Thanks for the photos, guys.

[iwasthere1972]

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Great photo.

....and for those that are feeling all morose about the demise of the tip that is the East Stand, this shows the East that I miss.

I was one of those thousands on the East terrace that night.

I was in the Cowshed, East Terracing and Dunbar End that night.

Brings back memories of some great European nights that Easter Road saw and we were desperately unlucky to go out to Leeds that night.

Would be fantastic if those great nights returned soon.

[CropleyWasGod]

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.

[greenlex]

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That is a cracking photo.
Also my memories of the proper East.

[jacomo]

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That is a cracking photo.
Also my memories of the proper East.

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.

[H18sry]

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

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[stevenson]

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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

I have distinct memory of Allan Clarke kicking out at Alan off the ball and Alan treating him with disdain.

[.Sean.]

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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

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

[Mon_the_cabbage]

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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

It was basically just a giant hill. The back was a grassy slope.

At half time it was the toilet with the best view in the country and at full time it was the quickest way down if you chose to avoid the steps!

PS: I was also on the East at that Leeds match!

[hibbie02]

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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

Standing on top of the top tier was like standing on top of the world, or at least as high as the top tier at Murrayfield was.......

It was my first view of the pitch when I was a wee yin and a sight I will never forget. It started my love affair with Hibs that was sealed by the Tornadoes and Messrs. Stanton, Duncan and Gordon particurly.

[H18sry]

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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

It was a kind of two tiers separated by a walkway [path] then a wall that led to the top tier and at the top tier and down the steps/bank, were the entrances and exits, so you had to climb up the back of the hill then down again, a big trek for one so young in the early 70's

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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

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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

IIRC it was basically a huge flight of concrete steps set on the front face of a hill overlooking the pitch.

The present East Stand is a section of the lower tier of those steps, and the path along the back of the present East is like the walkway that ran across the width of the terrace, only a bit lower down (I think). The original walkway that we knew was the top of the main terrace, before the top section was added. I'm not sure when THAT was - I think around the time of the Famous Five. I know that at one time there were plans to build the terraces higher all round, to increase standing capacity to 70,000. And yes, there was a wall all round the top. if you stood on that, you got an even better view.

The top section was, again, basically concrete steps on the front face of a huge mound of earth. It was like being on top of the world up there, with a superb view of the pitch. Best of all were the floodlit matches, because the pitch shone in the lights, and the smell of the tobacco-smoke and (if you were on the lower level, close to the pitch) sometimes the liniment, and the booze....

On a winter's afternoon with a sparse crowd it was freezing - the wind cut in off Arthur's Seat like a knife, and if it rained you were soaked. I remember one game against Morton around 1973-4 when we had about 6,000 in the ground, and just at five to three the heavens opened and the rain came down in stair-rods. There was a Tannoy announcement that in view of the weather everyone could move round to the covered sections of the ground (not that there was a lot of THEM in the 1970's) and everyone did - all except me and my mate Eric, Eric who just happened to have his big golf brolly with him. So we stayed put in our big long 1970's overcoats, leaning on a crush barrier, cooried doon under the brolly, to watch the game. Two guys totally all alone on that huge terrace. We got our photos in the EEN that night.

On a big European night, though, it was totally magic. You wore a hat to keep your head warm and dry, and with the crowd packed in like in that photo of the Leeds game you were toasty warm and comfortable - provided somebody didn't pee down the back of your leg, that is. (The 'toilets' would have disgraced the Gulag, I tell you.) When it was REALLY packed, you could travel 20-30 yards down and across the terrace without your feet touching the concrete - you've seen the TV pictures of the Kop at Anfield? Just like that. I've done it a few times, and I assure you, it was scary. How there were no deaths I do not know.

And for all those folks, there were a couple of pie-and-Bovril stands, and some guys who went round and round the pitch selling snowballs and macaroon bars. THAT was what passed for 'catering'.

The score-board - scaffolding, with letters A-O (I think) and slots for the numbers (all painted on squares of tin) and what you got were the Scottish League Division One scores, Hibs Reserves, the League Cup Final or Cup Final when they were played (a full league program ran on Cup Final days in those days) and one or two of the bigger Second Division games. Or you took a tranny (not what you might think - a wee radio ) to the game with you.

TV cameras were perched on top of another scaffold right at the top of the top section, and Archie MacPee would often have to dub in his commentary after the game because our guys would congregate round the camera stand and offer helpful advice to him on variant uses and locations for the microphone.

I honestly wouldn't have it back, but it was magic at the time.