Just found a great quote from the man himself about when he was working in football media after he retired (I remember him alongside Arthur Montford on Scotsport on a few occasions):This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"Whenever I was reporting at Tynecastle for radio or television Wallace Mercer would always make remarks about me being a Hibbie. In my professional role I would have to say I was a neutral, but he knew and I knew he knew I was green and white through and through. So there you are. Now you know Wallace."
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Thread: Memories of Alan Gordon ?
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14-10-2021 08:13 PM #31
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14-10-2021 08:29 PM #32This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-10-2021 08:45 PM #33
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14-10-2021 09:06 PM #34
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Then years later when I was going through a divorce, my solicitor asked for my email address for correspondence and it has hibby in it. She said oh my dad played for hibs. Thinking it would not be a 1st team player I asked her what was his name. Alan Gordon she replied. Couldn't believe it!
Had a good chat with her about her dad and how much I loved him at the time!
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14-10-2021 09:49 PM #35
Met an Accountant friend for a Friday after work drink in the Gordon Arms in the 1980’s
Unknown to me he had asked Alan Gordon to join us
At the time I was working for a large West End legal Firm
On being introduced to Alan I placed my briefcase on the bar popped it open to reveal its solitary content a HIBS book
This broke the ice Alan Gordon laughed and was only too pleased to sign it for me
Legend!
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14-10-2021 10:07 PM #36
Great thread. One of my first Hibs supporting memories is of him scoring the winner in a 0-1 victory over East Fife at Bayview. I was behind the goal aged 6 and I can still picture him rising like the proverbial salmon to head home.
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.' - Paulo Freire
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14-10-2021 10:40 PM #37
You summed it up perfectly too. I used to love going to watch that team play and on the way to games i used to wonder how many they were going to score and not if they are going to score.
Alan Gordon was just as the op described him. elagant and he used to hang in the air and those long legs of him would be dangling whilst he went up for the ball.
WeeJimmy ran his socks off trying to keep up with him so he could lay the ball off at his feet or put in a great cross direct on his head.
He was a lovely man and a real gentleman. Such a shame when Turnbull sold him on and broke up that team so sad indeed
Great memories though and so privilidged to have been able to watch the standard of football they produced.
That was football at its purest and i have very rarely felt the same passion for a Hibs team as i did them. Luck
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14-10-2021 11:12 PM #38
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I feel really lucky to have followed that great Hibs team everywhere,what a collection of absolutely brilliant players.
They must have been a nightmare for other teams to play against goals reigning in from every position.
But Alan and Jimmy they were just so clinical and complemented each other so well.
Thank you God for making me a Hibs man.
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14-10-2021 11:27 PM #39This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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15-10-2021 06:47 AM #40This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I never got tired of singing it, he did.
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15-10-2021 07:24 AM #41
The best header of a ball I've seen at Hibs. His 2nd goal against them in the 7-0 game is a thing of beauty.
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15-10-2021 08:24 AM #42This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Probably the year he was second to the late great Gerd Muller in the Golden Boot
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15-10-2021 08:30 AM #43
Last time I saw Alan was in the wee bookies underneath the Penny Black in West Register Street.
I had a wee chat with him and he was a lovely person.
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15-10-2021 08:34 AM #44
Alan Gordon was an absolute gentleman, he attended a few Berwick and District Burns nights and regaled us with stories from his time with the Tornadoes. A real character who is greatly missed and was underrated as a player by Scotland.
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15-10-2021 09:38 AM #46
One of my memories of Alan Gordon is him being on the team bus.
We used to travel on the Tranent Hibs Supporters bus in the 70s and would sometimes see the team bus going to away matches.
We used to get the driver to pass the team bus then slow down so it would overtake us and that way we could see the players on both sides of the bus.
Hibs used Silver Fox in those days and they were smart buses with tables for the players to sit at.
Most of them would be playing cards but Alan Gordon used to sit on his own and read a book, very clever man was my understanding.
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15-10-2021 12:03 PM #48
Absolute gentleman, recall sitting next to him at a 50 club diner. He told me the story of the year we almost won the league and how he was convicted had they sent ET on a month long cruise they would have been champions. ET was showing some nerves as the season came to a close and started tinkering with the team/formation... What an absolute honour it was to sit beside a man that could head a ball harder than most of us could kick it...💚💚
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15-10-2021 12:15 PM #49
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So great to read these posts - really bringing back the memories of a class act
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15-10-2021 01:57 PM #50
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I met him at a Radio Forth Christmas party
I mentioned I had been at Airdrie when he scored all 4 in the match
No big headed response. He was surprised I was at the game and thanked me for remembering the feat and appreciated my mentioning it and then asked me a lot of questions about our travels when he could have easily talked about himself. A true gentleman
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16-10-2021 11:41 AM #51
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In the opening few months of the 1974-75 season Alan was deployed by Eddie in left midfield on a number of occasions, rather than partnering Harper upfront. He was brilliant, demonstrating great skill on the ball and getting forward at every opportunity. It was further proof of his all round talent prior to him being sold to Dundee for a measly £20k in November.
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16-10-2021 01:25 PM #52This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-10-2021 01:33 PM #53
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16-10-2021 01:54 PM #54
Didnae stop ET sending King Pat to Paradise though ?
IIRC Alan Gordon chummed him through
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16-10-2021 05:04 PM #55
Talk of these truly fine players on a day like today brings home just how lucky we was to witness some of the games when as someone said we went to Easter Road wondering how many we would score no matter the opposition. Alan Gordon was one hell of a football player. Scoring hat tricks for fun did him and wee Jimmy, great days.
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16-10-2021 06:20 PM #56
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My memory of Alan Gordon was scoring for Hearts with a header from the half way line after the Raith keeper Reid took a goal kick at the Gorgie end of Tynecastle and he sent it right back!
It was back in the day when fans of both clubs would go to games at each others teams.
Nowadays its like all out war when the 2 teams meet, I would love to get back to those days when we could stand beside each other throughout the game.
Don't think it will ever happen again tho'.
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16-10-2021 11:02 PM #57
Alan Gordon, what a centre forward he was.....him and Jim o'rourke were a great front two.
Pretty sure he scored a hat trick (all headers ?)....against Dundee which finished 3-3 in the Scottish cup....although we were pumped 3 nil in the replay up at dens Park.
51 goals in 80 odd games.....that's impressive....bet most were headers !"I don't have any regrets about not moving during my playing career. I was born a Hibee, my dad was a Hibee, I will stay a Hibee and I'll die a Hibee." -Lawrie Reilly
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16-10-2021 11:11 PM #58This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-10-2021 01:26 PM #59This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The game was Airdrie vs Hibs on the 10/2/73
The Sunday Mail match report said that Alan Gordon could easily have scored 6 ! but he scored in ...
8 mins, (From a Des Bremner cross)
44 mins, (After McKenzie the Airdrie goalie failed to hold a long shot from John Blackley and Alan was on the spot to score)
60 mins, (From a trademark header)
86 mins, (After McKenzie the Airdrie goalie made a 'red face' blunder)
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17-10-2021 01:34 PM #60This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He signed Roddy Mackenzie 😃
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