Hibs in Europe

[Jonnyboy]

Folks - part 3 of my series of articles on Hibs in Europe has now been uploaded to the front page

You can catch up with all three parts here and there's more to come in the days ahead

http://www.hibs.net/list.php?category/4-euro-adventures

What I'm hoping to achieve with this series is to bring back to life games that ..

1) Some of you will have attended

2) Some of you will have heard of them from older Hibees; and/or

3) You'll all realise that we have a club to be proud of

[MSK]

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Folks - part 3 of my series of articles on Hibs in Europe has now been uploaded to the front page

You can catch up with all three parts here and there's more to come in the days ahead

http://www.hibs.net/list.php?category/4-euro-adventures

What I'm hoping to achieve with this series is to bring back to life games that ..

1) Some of you will have attended

2) Some of you will have heard of them from older Hibees; and/or

3) You'll all realise that we have a club to be proud of

Keep up the good work JC ...

[DaveF]

Worth a lunchtime read folks

[Jonnyboy]

Bump

It occurs to me that these articles kinda prove that Scottish football has by and large stood still whilst all sorts of other European nations have moved onwards and upwards.

Mind you I don't suppose those other nations have three or more governing bodies looking after the game

[HibbyAndy]

Jonny i read it, And a bloody good read it was too .

Very much appreciated by me mate

[Jonnyboy]

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Jonny i read it, And a bloody good read it was too .

Very much appreciated by me mate

Cheers Andy

[Jamesie]

Not had a chance to read John's article yet - looking forward to it. I'm conscious that when we played Videoton in 1989 which was the first time we had been in Europe for ten years.

What I wonder is whether that was the first trip for which Hibs took a reasonably sizeable support abroad with them or whether, for games like Strasbourg in '78 and the Scandinavian adventures to Sweden in the previous two years, we took a fair crowd as well?

I'd love to hear tales from any Hibees who made the journey to, for example, Split or Kavajë in '72 - Albania is a difficult enough country to travel today, let alone forty years ago! Did anyone manage to negotiate their way past the Iron Curtain to follow the Hibees to Leipzig in '68?!

[Jonnyboy]

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Not had a chance to read John's article yet - looking forward to it. I'm conscious that when we played Videoton in 1989 which was the first time we had been in Europe for ten years.

What I wonder is whether that was the first trip for which Hibs took a reasonably sizeable support abroad with them or whether, for games like Strasbourg in '78 and the Scandinavian adventures to Sweden in the previous two years, we took a fair crowd as well?

I'd love to hear tales from any Hibees who made the journey to, for example, Split or Kavajë in '72 - Albania is a difficult enough country to travel today, let alone forty years ago! Did anyone manage to negotiate their way past the Iron Curtain to follow the Hibees to Leipzig in '68?!

Damned good questions J

Must be somebody who jumped the Berlin Wall

[Jamesie]

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Damned good questions J

Must be somebody who jumped the Berlin Wall

Interesting to look at our opposition over the years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernian_F.C._in_Europe

A betting man might say we're going to Sweden this summer, given we've already played their teams five times in Europe! I wonder if groups were previously regionalised?

Probably not, given we've been to the Balkans four times over the years, three in the former Yugoslavia and once in Albania. Wonder if we might be back in Belgrade this autumn - I hope if we are we can avenge the score on our last visit

[Jamesie]

The answer will most certainly be no, but I wonder if any supporters followed us on our tour of Brazil in 1953?!