Kilmarnock FC win the title at Tynecastle, defeating HOMFC by 2 goals to 1. Killie get the title by 0.042 of a goal. Goal average deciding the title then as opposed to goal difference, to which it was changed a few years later.
What I hadn't appreciated was that Killie had been runners up in the league 4 times in the previous 5 seasons.
The table that season ended up as follows:
1) Kilmarnock - 50 points -goal difference (GD) =+29
2) HOMFC - 50 points - GD = +41
3) Dunfermline - 49 points - GD = +47
4) Hibernian - 46 points - GD = +28
Huns 5th & Sellick 8th
I remember being at the match. Changed days in so many ways.
It could so easily have been Hibs that won the title that year too, but once again it wasn't to be.
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Thread: 50 years ago this weekend
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25-04-2015 11:44 AM #1
50 years ago this weekend
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25-04-2015 11:55 AM #2
Didn't something similar happen to the "famous" more recently as well?
"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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25-04-2015 12:21 PM #3
[QUOTE=emerald green;4357596]Kilmarnock FC win the title at Tynecastle, defeating HOMFC by 2 goals to 1. Killie get the title by 0.042 of a goal. Goal average deciding the title then as opposed to goal difference, to which it was changed a few years later.
What I hadn't appreciated was that Killie had been runners up in the league 4 times in the previous 5 seasons.
The table that season ended up as follows:
1) Kilmarnock - 50 points -goal difference (GD) =+29
2) HOMFC - 50 points - GD = +41
3) Dunfermline - 49 points - GD = +47
4) Hibernian - 46 points - GD = +28
Huns 5th & Sellick 8th
I remember being at the match. Changed days in so many ways.
It could so easily have been Hibs that won the title that year too, but once again it wasn't to be.[/QUO
the score was 2-0 and if it had been 2-1 then hearts would have won it. my late dad who was a jambo took me ( i was 10) all i can mind is jensen hitting the post and willie waddel running on at the end. your right tho hibs were close to winning it to.
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25-04-2015 12:27 PM #4
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25-04-2015 07:06 PM #5
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26-04-2015 10:35 AM #6
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No segregation either in a 37,000 crowd, and I don't remember any trouble in the ground.
Also, the Scottish Cup final was being played on the same day!
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26-04-2015 10:42 AM #7
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Is there any chance we were in it that year and won?
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26-04-2015 10:50 AM #8
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Celtic v Dunfermline that day in front of 108,000 at Hampden.
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27-04-2015 06:46 PM #9
Great feature on Radio Scotland just finished. Chic interviews Tommy McLean and David Sneddon of the title winning side. Great to hear their anecdotes and to be fair to Chic, his style work wells with older guys, his bonhomie and patter, lol.
An outstanding era for Kille, European runs which involved spanking Eintracht Frankfurt 5-1 at Rugby Park, a title and the four runners up are pretty impressive.
Oh aye, I did rather revel in the end of season tragedy that took place at Tynecastle. Sair one for the Hearts
Funny, McLean and Alex McDonald were the two most despised anti heroes of my boyhood, the treatment they dished out to guys like Alex Edwards was reason. McLean was a decent player, but a niggling wee bassa of the highest degree.
Still, good feature by the BBC Scotland.Last edited by superfurryhibby; 27-04-2015 at 06:48 PM.
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Strange how Hertz lost both those title chances on the last game of the season by the exact same scoreline of 2-0. A real shame.
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27-04-2015 06:58 PM #11
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Dunfermline beat us 2-0 at Tynecastle in the semi.For years I remembered it (and I was in my early 20s at the time)as two headers at the school end.Saw film of it recently and it turned out it was a header at one end and a shot at the other.
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Aye, I think the anniversary if the game in question is coming up. A great story, you almost couldnae make it up. The four times runners up win a title, against their main rivals-away from home! Awesome.
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27-04-2015 07:15 PM #13
I was at that semi-final at Tynecastle. In the March of that year Jock Stein had Hibs as serious contenders for the league title (along with three other clubs - Hearts, Kilmarnock & Dunfermline) and Hibs had beaten Rangers 2-1 in the quarter final of the Scottish Cup. Hibs were a fine side playing great football. They had won the Summer cup earlier beating Aberdeen 3-1 with goals from Hamilton (a great player), Scott and Cormack.
Then right out of the blue, in early March, Stein resigned to take over as manager of Celtic. Although very young at the time, I still recall being stunned and really disappointed at the timing of his departure, and still feel robbed in a way that he didn't stay until the end of the season, which was so close.
Hibs then lost the cup semi-final to Dunfermline at a packed Tynecastle, and ended up 4th in the league only 4 points behind the winners Kilmarnock.
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Occasionally, when Hibs can take points which helps Celtc there fans go on about "cousins" and "favours". As a club Celtc have never ever once done us any favours. The exact opposite in fact.
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28-04-2015 09:20 AM #15
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I remember listening to the game with my older brother in our bedroom. Pleasing, so very pleasing.
The best was yet to come, however, as Hertz forced a change to the goal average (GA) rule, changing it to goal difference (GD), which led to the debacle at Dens Park in 1986, where they lost on GD but would have won on GA.
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28-04-2015 11:30 AM #17
Tommy McLean: "In those days, there wasn't any money in football. It was a sport, not a business.
Says it all for me.
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28-04-2015 11:36 AM #18
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28-04-2015 03:08 PM #19
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I was there! The biggest crowd I've ever been in. McNeill scored the classic winner with a header from a corner late on. Alex Edwards was the tricky Pars winger at that time and Jim Herriot the athletic goalie.
I don't remember being bothered about events at Tynecastle but in those days there wasn't the same bitterness between the Edinburgh fans. Hibs had a tremendous team then although the defence could be flaky as in later years!
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I honestly believe Hibs would have become Scottish Champions, and dare I say it, may also have got the Scottish Cup monkey off the club's back had Jock Stein stayed to the end of that particular season, and maybe for a couple of seasons after that. Mr Stein was way ahead of his time IMHO.
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As I understand it had Jock Stein not been heavily in gambling debt he would not have left Hibs. Celtic were prepared to clear that debt and the rest is history.
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