What a great read in todays Scotsman.
If you want to know a wee bit about the Hearts just sit back, read and enjoy!
Sometimes words like sensational or bombshell are used way out of context but they wouldnt be lost in this little gem.
The so called big team will be boiling !!
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11-09-2021 09:00 AM #1First Team Breakthrough
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11-09-2021 09:07 AM #2@hibs.net private member
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Originally Posted by DanishJohn
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteWhat a great read in todays Scotsman.
If you want to know a wee bit about the Hearts just sit back, read and enjoy!
Sometimes words like sensational or bombshell are used way out of context but they wouldnt be lost in this little gem.
The so called big team will be boiling !!
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11-09-2021 09:10 AM #3@hibs.net private member
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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11-09-2021 10:24 AM #4First Team Regular
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Great interview, think there is a great book in there, certainly lived a life! Originally Posted by Oscar T Grouch
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11-09-2021 12:39 PM #5Coaching Staff
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Thanks, good stories. Originally Posted by Oscar T Grouch
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Brilliant read , can mind him playing for us , an old fashioned centre half who when he tackled someone if he got the ball it was a bonus . Originally Posted by Oscar T Grouch
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Thanks for posting
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11-09-2021 01:39 PM #7Left by mutual consent!
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Great read. Was there not a story that Roy had some involvement with the sex industry? Could only add to his recollections!!
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Originally Posted by Iggy Pope
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sounds like the Only Fools And Horses episode with the inflatable dolls, they take the, to sell them to Dirty Barry
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11-09-2021 02:42 PM #9Left by mutual consent!
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There was a great photo either on Twitter or Facebook a wile back (might even have been on here) and it was a mid-late 70s Hibs squad having a cup of tea somewhere and Roy Barry looked like he had bumped into them on his way home from a club! Cant find it just need to settle for a mugshot....
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11-09-2021 09:21 AM #10Left by mutual consent!
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That's a brilliant interview. It sounds like he's on great form and probably has stories to keep you going for hours.
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Brilliant
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11-09-2021 10:16 AM #12Coaching Staff
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Had emigrated before Roy signed for Hibs but I remember hating ‘Nae Neck’ with a passion when he played for the other lot, and one memorable o.g. in front of the Cow Shed after he moved to the Pars.
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11-09-2021 10:20 AM #13Testimonial Due
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Interesting article . I remember him playing for us ( a home cup defeat v Celtic for example ) though I remember him mainly as a Dunfermline player when they had a great team winning the cup and doing well in Europe . Doesn`t seem to have been a manger after playing days .
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I went to Italia 90 with Roy and his sons and I still keep in touch with him and Jane on Facebook. Originally Posted by Peevemor
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He has stories all right!
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He was my landlord for a while. I always paid my rent on time!
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11-09-2021 10:16 AM #16Testimonial Due
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Great bit about their reunion dinners being pompous and masonic - "We Are Heart of Midlothian".
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11-09-2021 10:29 AM #17First Team Breakthrough
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And them having a superiority complex. So true. Originally Posted by FilipinoHibs
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You can just imagine them all in their wee blazers in the Merchie Hearts Originally Posted by FilipinoHibs
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11-09-2021 11:06 AM #19@hibs.net private member
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That was a quality read.
United we stand here....
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Standing in a circle round the club crest drawn on the floor Originally Posted by bringbackbenny
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteYou can just imagine them all in their wee blazers in the Merchie Hearts
Chanting and throwing their Rover car keys into the middle.
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11-09-2021 10:38 AM #21Testimonial Due
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If only we had signed him from them, my dad came across Roy when he was playing for Musselburgh. Remember my dad's comments when we signed Jim Black that it was Roy Barry we needed. Great read. Roy mentions Neil Martin, Neil has some fantastic stories as well. Spoke to Neil in the passing one day was still there an hour later.
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11-09-2021 11:27 AM #22Administrator
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What a great read that was.
The 'we are Heart of Midlothian' line is a classic.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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11-09-2021 12:57 PM #23First Team Regular
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Brilliant read. Thanks for posting. 👍
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Great interview and comes over as a top bloke. He certainly toughened us up in the time he was here. Can't remember the opponents but do recall him planting his forhead firmly on the back of an opponents napper and the ref not seeing it.
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12-09-2021 07:34 AM #25resident moaning git
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I was too young to see him play and had never really heard of him but what a brilliant character he seems to be. Loved the bit about his fridge - I'm off to do the same 😃
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12-09-2021 08:05 AM #26Coaching Staff
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Great days. You could see world class players on a Saturday afternoon for pennies. Or for nothing if you got a lift-over!
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12-09-2021 09:17 AM #27First Team Breakthrough
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Really interesting read an insight into a time when football wasn’t sullied by money.
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Liked Roy Barry a lot, tough player, seem to recall we used to call him The Wheel back in the day
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14-09-2021 07:37 PM #29Promising Youngster
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I recall a game at Ibrox while Roy was with Hibs. Rangers kicked off. One Rangers forward tapped the ball to another to kick off. Roy came steaming through from the edge of the centre circle and kicked the receiver straight up in the air. He then walked up to the referee, with his hands folded behind his back, and visibly said “ Roy Barry” before the man in black had time to fumble his book out of his pocket (pre yellow card days, I think!). The seethe if that were to happen now
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