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It has certainly become the tradition that SOL is only played after we win and even then only in big games EG cup finals, beating the Yams that sort of thing. Without a doubt the fact that we have been extremely sparing in it's use has kept the song special.

But surely the 'essence' of that song is far more than that, just to be a celebration. The Proclaimers didn't write the song with any idea or intention that it would become the unofficial ( now official ) Hibernian football club anthem, it was the fans who made that happen. This is a song about togetherness, comradeship and yes .... especially love .... not soppy Mills & Boon saccharine romanticised love, but the love shared by family, the love shared by friends, the love that overcomes hardship, adversity and even tragedy.

All supporters of clubs share a common bond. In the case of Hibs this song encapsulates the bond we all share as fans of our club and it's one of the very very few football anthems that can genuinely be described as moving.

For reasons that I won't go into this song in recent weeks has taken on a whole new resonance for me and if it is played tomorrow ( today now ) I am pretty sure I won't be able to get through it without tears streaming down my face. But that's why I want to hear it played and sung to the rafters by our fans before the kick off, it represents the best of us, how special it is to support this club for all its many faults.

To consign Sunshine on Leith to merely a song used at the end of a game to stick it to the Hearts or Sticky Buns after we beat them, or for the once in every 15 years event of us actually winning something is to do it a massive disservice ... there are other times it's use is entirely appropriate ... This is one of them.
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