Heroes as a youngster

[21sMay]

I remember as a young boy Darren Jackson was my hero, I would kick a ball off the curb and neighbours wall shouting out his name...scored a goal when playing with my friends and I shouted out his name.

Then came the pivotal point in my youth.....im on holiday in Spain around 9/10 year old and my old man breaks the news to me that Jackson is now a Celtic player. After a few days taking all this is I turn to my dad and say "can I get a Celtic top with Jackson on the back" .....he replied "of course u can BUT I promise you now.. it's not one player you support when we go and watch hibs, its all the players, it's the guys in the dugout, it's the hard-core fans that turn up every week no matter the score...and listen son-- I can't take you to Celtic park to cheer on Celtic. But I'll take you to Easter road were you will have many hero's through your lifetime .


Oh how right my old man could be....... from sauzee to lately to mixu to deek to murphy to beuzy to Griffiths and then on to the man we now call at David Gray !

How life can be so close to being totally different over one man's signature

[Bostonhibby]

Erich Schaedler . Shades loved Hibs, was hard as nails but could play as well and was a key member of the best Hibs team I've seen. His tackle and run to set up a goal in the 0-7 game is one of my favourite memories of that era.

[O'Rourke3]

In any order Cropley, O'Rourke or Stanton.

[ajf]

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In any order Cropley, O'Rourke or Stanton.

Only ever had one , paddy .

[Mr White]

Weir & Wright. Both hibs fans, living the dream and winning us the cup. Pair of legends to me then at age 11 and still now over 25 years later.

[weecounty hibby]

Des Bremner. Ally McLeod. Arthur Duncan.

[Sir David Gray]

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I remember as a young boy Darren Jackson was my hero, I would kick a ball off the curb and neighbours wall shouting out his name...scored a goal when playing with my friends and I shouted out his name.

Then came the pivotal point in my youth.....im on holiday in Spain around 9/10 year old and my old man breaks the news to me that Jackson is now a Celtic player. After a few days taking all this is I turn to my dad and say "can I get a Celtic top with Jackson on the back" .....he replied "of course u can BUT I promise you now.. it's not one player you support when we go and watch hibs, its all the players, it's the guys in the dugout, it's the hard-core fans that turn up every week no matter the score...and listen son-- I can't take you to Celtic park to cheer on Celtic. But I'll take you to Easter road were you will have many hero's through your lifetime .


Oh how right my old man could be....... from sauzee to lately to mixu to deek to murphy to beuzy to Griffiths and then on to the man we now call at David Gray !

How life can be so close to being totally different over one man's signature

I was exactly the same. I was also a huge fan of Darren Jackson as a young boy and I too was on holiday when I learned of his move to Celtic and I was devastated. I can't recall if I asked for a Celtic top or if I said that I would start supporting them but I was extremely upset about it!

That was back in the days when I naively assumed that no player would ever want to leave after they had signed for Hibs.

[Scouse Hibee]

Steve Heighway
Kenny Dalglish
Clint Eastwood
Kendo Nagasaki

[Eyrie]

Kenny Dalglish and Andy Irvine.

[SteveHFC]

Jarkko Wiss.

[hibee]

John Collins, wish he had better players around him though. I always thought players got the ball to him then just stood and watched.

[Colr]

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I remember as a young boy Darren Jackson was my hero, I would kick a ball off the curb and neighbours wall shouting out his name...scored a goal when playing with my friends and I shouted out his name.

Then came the pivotal point in my youth.....im on holiday in Spain around 9/10 year old and my old man breaks the news to me that Jackson is now a Celtic player. After a few days taking all this is I turn to my dad and say "can I get a Celtic top with Jackson on the back" .....he replied "of course u can BUT I promise you now.. it's not one player you support when we go and watch hibs, its all the players, it's the guys in the dugout, it's the hard-core fans that turn up every week no matter the score...and listen son-- I can't take you to Celtic park to cheer on Celtic. But I'll take you to Easter road were you will have many hero's through your lifetime .


Oh how right my old man could be....... from sauzee to lately to mixu to deek to murphy to beuzy to Griffiths and then on to the man we now call at David Gray !

How life can be so close to being totally different over one man's signature

Heroes FFS!

Arthur Duncan.

[EricM]

Pat McGinlay

Used to love his no nonsense celebrations when he scored

Sheer class

[confused]

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Only ever had one , paddy .

100% the same , loved dozens of players , but Mr Stanton was my god .

[Joe6-2]

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Only ever had one , paddy .

Yep!

[Billychaotic182]

Tam McManus and Matty Jack

[stevie-bee]

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In any order Cropley, O'Rourke or Stanton.

Heard cropley had another stroke , I think a bad 1

[eastmainsmsh]

Paul Kane John Collins Keith wright and Steve Archibald 👌

[James70]

Could only be Denis Law for me being a regular at Old Trafford in the mid 60s.

[Vault Boy]

Riordan, O'Connor and Zemmama. I remember my dad picking me up at school and telling me that O'Connor had left, I was honestly broken.

[HibeeMackenzie]

Riordan was my first hero, then it was Beuzelin and Benji

[poolman]

The one and only Denis Law

[Jones28]

Kenny miller for me, then probably the golden generation after that

[snooky]

Puskas was my hero as a boy. He went missing during the Hungarian revolution in the fifties then turned up a Real Madrid.
He became a good friend of Jim Baxter, another of my heroes (who was a Hibby at heart).

[jgl07]

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Steve Heighway
Kenny Dalglish
Clint Eastwood
Kendo Nagasaki

I was at school with Steve Heighway at Moseley Hall Grammar School in Cheadle in the early 1960s.

[Forza Fred]

Jimmy O'Rourke.

Still is.

[0762]

First hero was Pat Stanton who was replaced, literally, by Jackie McNamara.
Remembering being distraught when Pat left but Jackie quickly won me over.

Two great Hibs men.

[21.5.16]

My hero was thommo dont know the reason i just always loved him as a bairn

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[heretoday]

Peter Cormack. He was quite the star in the sixties with his distinctive running style.
The teachers must have looked out at the playground and thought there was something seriously amiss.
Probably resulted in extra rugby practice!

[Mantis Toboggan]

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Jarkko Wiss.

Im still not as fat as him after 15 years of lager