Whatever happened to this trophy? It was always a decent midweek game amongst the youngsters but after the game a couple of years back it just seems to have stopped.
Is there any plans to bring it back? I assume it's a scheduling issue these days?
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Thread: East of Scotland Shield
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22-08-2018 07:20 PM #1
East of Scotland Shield
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22-08-2018 07:24 PM #2
Some of us are old enough to remember the Final getting played on a Saturday at 3:00 with both top teams playing. Seen Hibs winning it a few times. Also the only place you'd see Hibs v Berwick Rangers back then.
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22-08-2018 07:36 PM #5
Is it not one of the oldest trophy’s/competitions in football? Think it’s more a youth tournament now, but can’t recall much mention of it in recent years which is a shame.
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22-08-2018 07:41 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of_Scotland_Shield
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22-08-2018 07:44 PM #7
Loved it, having been born on 18th April 1960 it's engrained in my DNA, whatever that is ☺
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"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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22-08-2018 07:49 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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"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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22-08-2018 09:23 PM #10
I vaguely remember a EOS final v them at ER early 80s, 20000+ crowd and loads of bother after the game. Anyone fill in the gaps for me?
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23-08-2018 09:56 AM #17
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Incidentally that Shield match was played during a 5 year period in which there was no league meetings played between the 2 teams due to them being in different leagues (them 4 seasons in the Lower league First Division) and us (one season). This probably led to the big attendance and the intensity of the occasion.
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23-08-2018 11:26 AM #18
I always understood that playing in a competition run by the east of scotland association was a condition of membership of the FCA.. or something similar with all clubs having to be members of a local or home association. It was relegated to being between youth teams in more recent times. That necessity may have been lost in some modernisation of the rules .. though the concept of modernisation and the SFA, SPLF etc sounds a bit far fetched
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23-08-2018 11:28 AM #19
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Those games always felt second rate and a bit of a cop out of the real meetings.
The run of Hibs Hearts games was a brief time of interest as they were in different leagues as a previous thread said.
Hibs chairman Tom Hart had died at Pittodrie and the next game was dedicated to him but the interest had mostly gone thereafter.
I do remember a flare exploding at ER though!
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Busby wasn't any sort of footballer at all was he? So much so, he'd still get a game for them now.
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The Tom Hart Memorial cup wasn't related to the Shield. It came a couple of seasons after the game being discussed and the cup was played for twice if I'm right. Think we played Dunfermline second time but I could be wrong.
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23-08-2018 12:21 PM #21
Think you're right re Pars game. Possibly 5-3 Hibs? Round about 1984-85
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Busby was a thug and a woeful footballer.
Hearts fans of a certain generation treat him as a "legend".
Those last two sentences aren't necessarily related but probably are.
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23-08-2018 12:51 PM #23
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23-08-2018 12:52 PM #24
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East of Scotland Shield definitely used to include Berwick and Meadowbank back in the day, and quite possibly more teams than that if you go back further than I can remember.
However, in more recent years it's simply been a one-off clash between the Hibs and Hearts youth teams. Not sure if it's still going but Hibs won it ten years in a row recently!
http://www.youthfootballscotland.co....os-shield.html
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23-08-2018 01:13 PM #25
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Going back further than you can remember it was only Hibs and Hearts and made money for the clubs(who normally only met twice)and the hospital football broadcast charity.
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23-08-2018 03:31 PM #26
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I am sure 'Medals' Mackay never got his hands on this trophy throughout his undistinguished career.
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23-08-2018 04:22 PM #27
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Did the competition not become the Festival Cup? Before that the Summer Cup?
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Last edited by Ringothedog; 23-08-2018 at 04:28 PM.
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23-08-2018 04:38 PM #30
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Says here it was originally known as the Edinburgh FA Cup but after Hibs won it three years in a row they got to keep the trophy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of_Scotland_Shield
The article also lists about a dozen teams which used to take part.
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