There is an iconic image reproduced on the front cover of the new book by Richard Gordon detailing Scotland’s heartbreaking World Cup expedition to West Germany in 1974. It shows a despairing Billy Bremner after he narrowly failed to score against Brazil and put Scotland into the knock-out stages for the first time. The head-in-hands pose is apt, because it is what John Blackley feels like doing when asked to consider the desperate current plight of Hibernian.






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