On this day in history

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18/5/2013 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 1 v 0 Dundee

Wotherspoon

This match appeared to be in doubt one hour before kick-off as Leith was hit by a freak torrential downpour The torrent soon passed and HIBS faced bottom club Dundee in their last League game before facing Celtic in the Scottish Cup Final on Sunday 26th May 2013.

HIBS centre-forward Leigh Griffiths would play his last League game for HIBS and would return to parent club Wolverhampton Wanderers after the cup final

A win for the home side would guarantee them seventh place and HIBS dominated the first half Jordon Forster heading over from a Griffiths corner and the Wolves’ hitman almost got his 29th goal of the season when his angled drive drew a good save from Dundee goalkeeper Simonsen. Griffiths followed up and his effort appeared to hit a Dundee arm but the referee waved play-on

After the break the visitors began positively John Baird finding Lewis Toshney in the HIBS box but the on-loan Celt hooked over. A wonderful Hanlon pass over the dark blues defence allowed Griffiths to chest and volley wide before Stevenson sliced high and wide from Harris’s pass

Dundee almost ended their SPL campaign in style. Harkins’s deep cross was taken left footed on the volley by Conroy from 12 yards and the ball flashed back across Ben Williams’s goal missing the post by inches

Griffiths left the field of play in the 73rd minute to a standing ovation to be replaced by Chesterfield bound Eoin Doyle but the goal when it came came from an unlikely source when with 11 minutes to go substitute David Wotherspoon met a Lewis Stevenson cross on the edge of the box and powered home a Zidane like bullet header into the goalkeepers bottom right hand corner to stake his claim for a starting place a week on Sunday

Hibs Williams Maybury Hanlon Forster McGivern Claros Stevenson Taiwo Harris Caldwell and Griffiths

Subs Doyle for Griffiths 73 Wotherspoon for Harris 75 Robertson for Taiwo 83

Unused Murdoch Done Handling Deegan

Att 9522


https://youtu.be/ZWg_WD2FtaE




18/5/1963 Scottish League Division One Old

Raith Rovers 0 v 4 Hibernian

Baxter 2
Fraser
Baker

They were dancing in the streets of Raith and on the park as HIBS and their large travelling support celebrated the completion of their Lazarus act by winning their second consecutive and last game 4-0 against already relegated Raith Rovers. Clyde would lose 1-3 at home to Champions in waiting Rangers to confirm their relegation on Wednesday 22nd May.

Raith had finished on just 9 points Clyde 23 and HIBS 25 improvement was needed and Walter Galbraith’s jacket was hanging on a shoogly peg

Hibs Simpson Cameron McClelland Preston Grant Baxter Scott Fraser Baker ORourke and Stevenson

Att 2858




18/5/1946 Victory Cup QF

Partick Thistle 1 v 1 Hibernian

Milne

Hibs would win the replay at Easter Road 2-0 with Arthur Milne and Alex Wright scoring They would defeat Clyde 2-1 in the semi-final at Tynecastle (Smith pen and Milne) and lose to Rangers in the final 1-3 at Hampden in front of 100000 fans Johnny Aitkenhead scoring for HIBS




18/5/1940 Scottish Regional League Eastern Division

Hibernian 2 v 0 Aberdeen

Mayes 2








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19/5/2019 Scottish League Premiership

Hibernian 1 v 2 Aberdeen

McNulty

Aberdeen remained undefeated against HIBS in this season with this win at Easter Road

Marc McNulty fired HIBS ahead after a delightful ball from Fraser Murray. Murray then curled a shot just wide and McNulty inexplicably nodded the ball back across goal when an effort towards it may well have been a better option

Just before the break Aberdeen carved out an equaliser when Connor McLennan delivered low and Cosgrove got the break of the ball before firing across Marciano and into the right hand corner

Murray was unlucky with a point blank header at the start of the second half and an 18 yard effort from Horgan flew past Lewis’ right hand post. Aberdeen then took the lead when James Wilson got on the end of a wonderful four man move and was left in acres of space to roll the ball past Marciano

Aberdeen had to better Kilmarnock’s result ( who defeated The Rangers 2-1) to qualify for Europe and they blew it when Cosgroves’ poor late penalty was saved by Rocky’s trailing left leg after SDG was harshly judged to have brought down GMS in the box. They would however go on to qualify for Europe through the back door as a result of Celtic defeating Hearts in the Scottish Cup Final

The biggest cheer of the afternoon was reserved for the 64th minute when fans favourite Marvyn Bartley replaced Mark Milligan- both making their final appearances for the club. David Gray handed Big Marv the captains arm band

Hibs Rocky Gray Hanlon Stevenson McGregor Milligan Horgan Mallan Murray Omeonga and McNulty

Subs Bartley for Milligan 64 Shaw for Horgan 79 Slivka for Omeonga 83

Unused Bogdan Whittaker Agyepong Kamberi

Att 18631



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19/5/2012 Scottish Cup Final

hibernian 1 v 5 Hearts

McPake

What can one say about a match that has been wiped from the memory banks of so many HIBS supporters

My abiding memory is of turning up more in hope than expectation my heart said HIBS but my head said Hearts. HIBS would have to be at their very best and get very lucky and Hearts would have to be poor. My memory of the second half being how I was going to get back to Edinburgh in time to watch Chelsea in the Champions League Final that early evening

Pat Fenlon had been recruited by HIBS to save Colin Calderwood’s shambolic squad from relegation not only did he do that but he also got us to the Scottish Cup Final utilising his squad of hastily assembled ragtag and bobtails and loanees

Hibs found themselves still in the game at half-time only 1-2 down after skipper James McPake had pulled a goal back and Hearts could consider themselves fortunate to still have 11 men on the park after Ian Black had delivered a forearm smash to the back of Leigh Griffiths’ skull with the ball nowhere near

Referee Craig Thomson, a Hearts fan ruined the match as a contest just after the interval, awarding Hearts a penalty and sending off HIBS defender Pa Kujabi for a foul that was clearly outside the box though his second yellow card was deserved After that HIBS collapsed and Hearts easily won the biggest derby in years 5-1

Since then there have been many stories and theories about what went wrong that have come to light:

The wisdom of taking the team across the Irish Sea to Dublin the stories of cliques in the camp players not being bothered alleged assaults on Coaches, spies in the camp tactics and team line ups being revealed Claros coming into the team at the last minute only to last 42 minutes

One thing is for sure the better team on the day won a team Hearts could not afford and would enter into administration on 19th June 2013 with debts of 25m

HIBS Brown Doherty Hanlon McPake Pa Claros Soares Stevenson Osbourne OConnor and Griffiths

Subs Sproule for Claros 42 Doyle for OConnor 54 Francomb for Soares 76

Unused Grant OHanlon


Hearts MacDonald Barr Zaliukus Grainger McGowan Webster Skacel Black Driver Santana and Elliott

Subs Beattie for Santana 76 Taouil for Driver 84 Robinson for Black 86

Att 51041



Oh dear!

FFS Ref!

https://youtu.be/7xX1j9eNDMA




19/5/1965 Summer Cup Group 4

Falkirk 1 v 3 Hibernian

Cormack pen
Stevenson
ORourke


To qualify for the semi-final HIBS had to win at Brockville and hope the result between Hearts and Dunfermline worked out in their favour The first part was achieved thanks to goals from Cormack (pen)
Eric Stevenson and ORourke Thankfully for HIBS things went their way and they qualified to meet Motherwell in a two legged semi-final the first leg being at Easter Road



19/5/1894 Scottish League Division Two old

Hibernian 10 v 1 Port Glasgow

Hibs won the inaugural Scottish Second Division in a canter their 57 goals in nine home league games 1893/94 being a British record

Hibernian were now back as a force in Scottish football after being almost down and out a couple of years ago There was a catch however because there was no automatic promotion to Division One this was done on a voting system and also the bottom three teams had to apply for reelection Hibernian would have to drum up support from their very few friends in Scottish football to gain their rightful place in the First Division

The Committee came back to them stating they had decided as the result of a vote to promote Clyde to the First Division who had finished fourth in the Second Division but at that time Clyde came from Glasgow

The authorities had once again rejected Hibernian FC just as they had done in 1875 The Edinburgh Irishmen were again the misfits, the underclass, marginalised and banished to the fringes of Scottish football. But Hibernian were not going to lie down and die they were made of sterner stuff and prepared themselves to once again be champions of the Second Division



Hibernian FC On This Day Colquhoun and Sinnet


At Easter Road They Play. John Campbell


The Making of Hibernian The Brave Years Alan Lugton





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These are great Billy 👍🏻

The 5 - 1 game will stay with me for a long long time as being my worst single day in football. It doesn’t get much ****ter, but the silver lining was that I went out with my pals, hugged a few Jambos and got bladdered.

The worst bit was seeing the Hearts fans gearing up for their big day out to the parade on the train back to Berwick.

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These are great Billy 👍🏻

The 5 - 1 game will stay with me for a long long time as being my worst single day in football. It doesn’t get much ****ter, but the silver lining was that I went out with my pals, hugged a few Jambos and got bladdered.

The worst bit was seeing the Hearts fans gearing up for their big day out to the parade on the train back to Berwick.

I done the same, we stopped off at a garage for a carryout on the way home to peebles. Got smashed, got the pleasure of the hearts bus arriving home hours later. Few handshakes and so on. Only one idiot thankfully. Next day I was out and about and it was tough watching cars going through for the parade.

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NHC

19/5/2012 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL

Chelsea 1 v 1 Bayern Munich ( 4-3 after pens )


Chatting about the game we don’t talk about brought this game to mind

Chelsea become the first London club to win the Champions League


https://youtu.be/sL3b2waEv74

[BILLYHIBS]

15/5/2015 Scottish Premiership Play-Off Semi Final Ist Leg

The Rangers 2 v 0 Hibernian



A strange performance from Hibernian who had just returned from a week’s Traning Camp in Spain in their absence The Rangers had been defeating QOS in the Play-Off quarter-final.

HIBS appeared to not appreciate the importance of the occasion and their attacks and tempo of play lacked any urgency in the early stages.

The Rangers were content to sit back and concede territory and restrict HIBS to a couple of long range attempts from Liam Craig

With Haris Vuckic controlling the midfield they eventually took a grip of the game when his ball out wide to Foster was turned home by Nicky Clark just before half-time

Into the second half and Vuckic had the presence of mind to pass the ball to Kenny Miller in the box who was in a better position who scored easily past Oxley

Hibs could not turn their superiority into goals leading 13-1 on corners and The Rangers players must have taken great delight from the disconsolate looks on the faces of the Hibernian players at the final whistle going into the second leg in a week’s time at Easter Road






20/5/2007 Scottish League SPL

Hibs 2 v 1 Celtic

Brown
Sproule

Scott Brown would play his last game for HIBS after agreeing a transfer to Celtic for 4.4 m in the new season

Ex-Hibee Derek Riordan gave Celtic the lead in 56 minutes when he broke down the left and scored from a tight angle past Andy McNeill despite the despairing attentions of Chris Hogg

Scott Brown equalised four minutes later with a flying header from a Shiels cross - from a move that he had started himself-that appeared to take a wicked deflection rising high in the air allowing the onrushing Brown time to meet the ball flush with his forehead to direct it high into Mark Brown’s top left postage stamp corner a goal that was greeted by huge cheers from both sets of supporters

The game was petering out to a stalemate when Zemmama blew a chance to win the match for HIBS when he fired over in front of goal from six yards out with two minutes left

The game had a final twist however when in the dying embers of the game substitute Ivan Sproule who was playing the final match of his first spell at HIBS waltzed around Celtic goalkeeper Brown and fired the ball home between the legs of Stephen McManus

It was a real “ what if “ moment for HIBS’ fans defeating Celtic the week before they were due to play Dunfermline Athletic in a Scottish Cup Final a team many felt HIBS should have easily defeated in a replayed semi-final a few weeks back to set up the possibility of a domestic cup double however it was not to be






20/5/2001 Scottish League SPL

Rangers 4 v 0 Hibernian

The cracks were beginning to show in the week before the 2001 Scottish Cup Final versus Celtic an ominous result and pretty sure hibs legend Franck Sauzee copped a bad one in this game

Russell Latapy effectively being sacked by the club after missing training before the previous weekend’s Edinburgh derby and his shenanigans with Dwight Yorke

Final appearance by Jorg Albertz for the home side who returned to Hamburg to be nearer his family





20/5/1964 Summer Cup Group 4

Hibernian 4 v 0 Falkirk

Martin 3
J Stevenson

Hibs concluded their group with this convincing home win to tie second place in group 4 with Dunfermline who could only draw their final game with Hearts

Both sides would meet in a winner takes all play off at Tynecastle to see who would meet Kilmarnock in a two legged semi final





20/5/1953 Coronation Cup Final

Hibernian 0 v 2 Celtic

117000 fans turned up at Hampden for this all Scottish Final to celebrate the Queens Coronation

Hibs attacked from the off and despite attack after attack they could not get the better of Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Bonnar who was in the form of his life pulling off brilliant and inspired saves from Buchanan Johnstone Smith and Reilly even saving a Turnbull special

Tommy Younger was busy at the other end pulling off saves from Evans, Collins and Mochan but could do little about a 35 yarder from Mochan recently signed from Middlesbrough that flew past him at a rate of knots and into the net on 28 minutes

Into the second half and Reilly thought he had equalised at last when a shot deflected off Jock Stein and was headed for the bottom corner but somehow Bonnar got across and diverted the danger for a corner Gordon Smith thought he had scored when his gentle lob beat Bonnar but the ball nestled on top of the net of the unprotected goal Johnstone thought he had scored three times in the second half one that hit the post and another a miraculous save from a header that Bonnar managed to tip over the bar. All this pressure and HIBS had effectively been reduced to ten men after Bobby Combe had been injured in the first half

Two minutes remaining and Celtic broke away on the counter attack after Jock Stein had dispossessed Gordon Smith at the half way line Jimmy Walshs’ initial shot was blocked by Howie but he recovered and fired home the rebound and made it 2- 0 for Celtic

Hibs had entertained the fans with their fast exciting interchanging football in the Final and in both their defeats of the highly fancied Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United

Gordon Smith felt Celtic had been extremely fortunate to win they had their goalkeeper to thank and that we should have scored a dozen

Eddie Turnbull felt it was a disappointing end to a season we had reached a semi-final a final and we had tied a league and had nothing to show for it and he felt that the team was never the same again. Where have we heard that before?



Hibs Younger Govan Howie Buchanan Paterson Combe Smith Johnstone Reilly Turnbull and Ormond









20/5/1944 Scottish Southern League Cup Final

Hibernian 0 v 0 Rangers ( HIBS won 6-5 on corners)




50000 fans attended this war-time Cup Final at Hampden Park and in the event of the scores being even after ninety minutes corners would count

Rangers were reduced to ten men after 17 minutes when Tommy Bogan clashed with the Rangers keeper Dawson and he was carried off with a broken leg. Ten man Rangers played with even more determination but once again as usual the Referee was on their side when HIBS were denied a stonewall penalty when Jimmy Caskie was chopped down as he bore in on goal

There was no scoring in the first half but Rangers led by two to one on corners.

Mitchell Downie had played very well in HIBS goal but so had the rest of the team with Willie Finnigan and Sammy Kean working like trojans Gordon Smith was outstanding as HIBS mixed skill with playing a hard game

As the minutes of the second half ticked away Rangers were leading 5-4 on corners when with 12 minutes left HIBS drew level but there was still no scoring.

Excitement was high and tempers frayed when with only three minutes left Jimmy Caskie won a corner which was greeted by Hibernian and their fans as if it were a “goal”

The referee blew the final whistle to scenes of great joy and celebration some might say a hollow victory on corners versus 10 men but we will take any victory over Rangers especially in a cup final





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Can't believe Scott Browns last game for Hibs was 13 years ago. Time flies when your getting old☹️.

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Can't believe Scott Browns last game for Hibs was 13 years ago. Time flies when your getting old☹️.

Yip!

Even a couple of years back Slivka was skinning him and he was catching him with late tackles

Nice money if you can get away with it !

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21/5/2016 Scottish Cup Final

The Rangers 2 v 3 Hibernian

Stokes 2
Gray

A late David Gray header saw Hibernian beat Rangers to end a tortuous 114 year wait to lift the Scottish Cup

Anthony Stokes scored twice for HIBS either side of goals from Kenny Miller and Andy Halliday Then Gray headed in the winner before HIBS and their fans celebrated a timeless triumph

Hibs started off as though the Managers’ instructions were still ringing in their ears The strategy was that the three centre backs would stifle the corridors of space that Rangers look to exploit in attack while heavy pressing would disrupt the rhythm of Mark Warburton’s side

The planning was meticulous but an immediate advantage would not have been anticipated There was a committed intent that enthused HIBS ‘ play It was evident in the way that Stokes clattered into Jason Holt in the first minute but also in the way the striker drove into the Rangers penalty area and expertly placed a shot beyond Wes Foderingham

Rangers players were immediately subdued although some might have been feeling an element of culpability Halliday and James Tavernier had failed to win the ball from John McGinn while Rob Kiernan allowed Stokes the time and space to measure his options

Stokes naturally drifts out left but this natural instinct would have been encouraged by Stubbs since the space between Tavernier and Kiernan is the most vulnerable area of the Rangers defence

The extent of Rangers unease could be measured by the raggedness of their play passes went astray and possession was cheaply discarded.

Rangers’ whole philosophy under Mark Warburton was to keep the ball and retain possession and it was a departure from this philosophy that brought them level Foderingham’s kick up the park was won by Miller allowing Barrie McKay to gather possession and carry the ball across the field where he found Tavernier the full back immediately swept a cross into the box from deep and Miller leapt ahead of HIBS defender Darren MacGregor to plant a header past Conrad Logan

Flaws made this game exhilarating The defending was so inept at times that opportunities were inevitable Stokes sent an effort bouncing off a post then Miller won another header in the HIBS box that cannoned off the crossbar

Stokes was irrepressible at times at least when faced with Tavernier who had little answer to his forward runs Stokes cut inside the fullback early in the second half but his effort was pushed away by Foderingham That was to be a redeeming feature of the game but it was Rangers who took the lead

Halliday was allowed the room to shape to shoot around 25 yards out but his effort was fierce and true and the ball flew past Conrad Logan into the far side of the net The onus was now on the HIBS players to respond and to dig deep within themselves to find the means and to do it quickly it truly was time for heroes

The introduction of Liam Henderson made an impact not least because of his set piece deliveries From one Stokes muscled Tavernier aside to head in at the near post It was from another corner kick again from Henderson that Gray scored his historic momentous winning goal before surging off towards the fans to celebrate

Hibs Logan McGregor Hanlon Fontaine Gray Fyvie McGeouch McGinn Stevenson Stokes and Cummings

Subs Keatings for Cummings 65 Henderson for Fontaine 70 Gunnarsson for Hanlon 83

Unused Oxley Bartley Boyle and Dagnall

Att 50701


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21/5/2014 Premiership Play-Off Final First Leg

Hamilton Academicals 0 v 2 Hibernian

Cummings 2

Hibs went into this match having only won once in the last 19 games whereas Hamilton had only lost one in 15 games

Step up young Jason Cummings 18 who scored the first two goals of his career either side of half-time

His first was a superb 25 yard strike in 39 minutes that Cuthbert in the Hamilton goal appeared to have covered but the ball did seem to swerve in mid-air cue celebrations and relief amongst the large travelling support

The second half was barely 10 minutes old when Cummings added his second a run and cross by Heffernan ended with the ball landing at the teenager’s feet inside the penalty area who showed the presence of mind to look up under extreme pressure and chip the ball over the advancing goalkeeper and over the line Ziggy Gordon did manage to scramble back and boot the ball away to safety but TV evidence later showed that the ball had crossed the line by at least two feet and the officials were correct to award the goal

Hibs managed to repel intense Hamilton pressure and held out for an unexpected but welcome 0-2 win to take into the second leg at Easter Road

What could go wrong?

Hibs Williams Maybury Stevenson Craig Nelson McGivern Harris Robertson Cummings Stanton and Heffernan

Subs Cairney for Cummings 85 Tudur Jones for Robertson 90

Unused Collins Forster Murdock Haynes and Thomson

Att 5322








21/5/2000 Scottish League SPL

Hearts 2 v 1 Hibernian

Paatelainen


Hibs were back in the SPL under Alex McLeish this was their last game of the season a season in which they finished a respectable sixth

Mixu scored with a brave header on the line -after the ball had hit the post from a McGinlay header -to equalise Jaunjo’s earlier strike. Hearts only needed a point to guarantee a UEFA place and they secured all three with Gary McSwegans late flicked header. Martin McIntosh was sent off for a second bookable offence when he pulled down Mickey Cameron



21/5/1981 Challenge Match

Haiti International XI 1 v 0 Hibernian







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[Glory Lurker]

Young Tam McManus was kicked off the park at that 2000 derby. Disgraceful from that lot and sadly means that 21 May for me ever since has been a day I'd prefer to forget.

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Young Tam McManus was kicked off the park at that 2000 derby. Disgraceful from that lot and sadly means that 21 May for me ever since has been a day I'd prefer to forget.

Apologies I found it very difficult to get any info on this game for some weird reason google kept coming up with “ Millennium Derby “ and 6-2 which would have been a better way to finish off this day of days

GGTTH

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22/5/2008 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 0 v 2 Motherwell

Hibs finished sixth in this season and entered the Intertoto Cup Mixu Paatelainen replaced John Collins who resigned in the January after a series of poor results which followed a great unbeaten start that took HIBS temporarily to the top of the SPL

Hibs had sold Scott Brown Ivan Sproule Steven Whittaker and David Murphy for a total of 8.5m and lost Chris Killen and Michael Stewart on free transfers

John Collins had replaced them with Brian Kerr Clayton Donaldson Alan OBrien Yves Makalambay Thierry Guthessi Filipe Morais Mickael Antoine Curier Patrick Noubissie Ian Murray John Rankin Colin Nish Aberraouff Zarabi and Martin Canning for a total of £500000






22/5/2005 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 0 v 1 Rangers

The last half hour of this final game of the season brought back memories of the infamous World Cup match between West Germany v Austria where both sides sat back with both teams apparently happy with the score as it stood.

Rangers had taken the lead after Nacho Novo had opened the scoring on 59 minutes via a deflection off HIBS defender Gary Caldwell

All ears were glued to transistor radios as Rangers had to win to have any chance of snatching the title from Celtic who would incredibly lose their final game at Motherwell

Hibs who finished in third position qualifying for the UEFA Cup needed to avoid a heavy defeat to prevent Aberdeen overtaking them on goal difference

A lot of HIBS fans at the time were not happy as they felt we had the forwards to cause Rangers problems and should have just went for it besides we were starting to get fed up of other teams celebrating title wins at Easter Road

Aberdeen beat Hearts 2-0 but we were back in Europe







22/5/1997 Premier Division Play-Offs Final Leg 2

Airdrieonians 2 v 4 Hibernian ( Agg 2-5 )

Jackson 2 pens
Tosh
Wright

After the battle of Easter Road HIBS arrived at Broadwood for this play-off showdown 1-0 up thanks to an own goal from Steve Cooper

Such was the importance of this game to Hibernian Football Club I looked behind me shortly before kick off and there sat three HIBS legends together Pat Stanton Lawrie Reilly and Joe Baker

This HIBS feel good factor was destroyed within 90 seconds of the kick off however when HIBS found themselves one goal down and Airdrieonians were level on aggregate

Jamie McQuilken inadvertently found Forbes Johnston with a clearance Jim Leighton came for his cross to make a routine save Big John Hughes headed the ball out of his hands ball drops to Paddy Connolly 1-0 Airdrie

Thereafter the game continued in the same brutal vein as the first leg with the emphasis being on the physical side of the game and the basic tactic being thump it hard thump it wide thump it high and if you can take the man as well so much the better a real battle for survival the only subtlety or signs of any football coming from Darren Jackson and Paddy Connolly

Airdrieonians were all over HIBS as the half wore on and one doubted that if HIBS conceded another they would be able to come back

Jim Leighton had his work cut out and was performing miracles until he got knocked out cold after a sickening clash of heads with Steve Cooper

Things looked to have got a lot worse for HIBS when they conceded a penalty in 34 minutes Referee Willie Young awarding the kick when a Johnston shot struck Brian Welsh’s hand in the box Up stepped Steve Cooper to redeem himself for his og at Easter Road such was his enthusiasm and eagerness to score he could only succeed in hitting the ball with all his might over the crossbar and into Row Z

22 seconds into the second half and Referee Young awarded HIBS a penalty after Jimmy Sandison was softly adjudged to have pulled back Pat McGinlay but a penalty it was and Darren Jackson stepped up to show Airdrie how a penalty should be taken

Airdrie suffered a blow in 55 minutes when Gary Mackay was stretchered off to be replaced by Brian McPhee who only took 3 minutes to get booked

Midway through the second half HIBS were awarded a second penalty when Brian Grant and Davies contested a Paul Tosh cross in the box and the Airdrie man was adjudged to have handled no protest up stepped Darren Jackson cool as you like 2-1 HIBS

Four minutes later Airdrie knew they were staying in the First Division. Grant played the ball through to Tosh in space who had run through from the half-way line his first attempt was parried by Rhodes but he wasted no time in burying the rebound into the empty net

Jimmy Sandison already booked and realising he would not be seeing old adversary Pat McGinlay again for another season decided to elbow him in the face and the Airdrie captain was immediately shown the red card

HIBS rubbed salt into the Airdrie wounds when substitute Keith Wright in his last appearance for HIBS rose unchallenged to meet a superb Darren Jackson cross and bullet a typical header into the net to make it 4-1 for HIBS on the night and at last we could relax

With just two minutes left Hughes handled a Connolly cross in the box and Kenny Black stepped up to score Airdrie’s consolation

Like the first leg this was a rough house game of football with eight bookings ( five for Airdrie) one sending off and four penalties awarded

A game where Airdrie’s rough style of football for once backfired and came back to haunt them

From a HIBS point of view they had held onto their top-flight status and had Darren Jackson Jim Leighton Pat McGinlay and Keith Wright to thank for pulling them out of the fire worryingly only one of them would be at Easter Road in the following season


Hibs Leighton Renwick McQuilken Grant Hughes and Welsh Tosh Dow Power Jackson and McGinlay

Subs Lavety Wright and Harper

Att 7560









22/5/1965 Summer Cup Semi-Final Leg 1

Hibernian 2 v 0 Motherwell

Cormack
Stevenson

Things looked promising for HIBS in their defence of the Summer Cup thanks to a couple of cracking goals from Peter Cormack and Eric Stevenson to give them a two goal advantage going into the second leg

They would play Motherwell at Fir Park in four days time

What could go wrong ?








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[Eyrie]

My main memory of that Airdrie game (other than yelling abuse at Mackay when he was injured just in front of me) was singing "Can't Help Falling In Love With You" as we left.

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My main memory of that Airdrie game (other than yelling abuse at Mackay when he was injured just in front of me) was singing "Can't Help Falling In Love With You" as we left.

Yip got stretchered off in 55 minutes after writhing aboot in agony beside us the 4000 HIBS fans were going tonto got replaced by Brian McPhee and it only took him 3 minutes to get booked....lovely team

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23/5/2015 Scottish Premiership Play-Off Semi-Final 2nd Leg

Hibernian 1 v 0 The Rangers ( Agg 1-2 )

Cummings 94

A minutes silence was perfectly observed in the Leith sunshine for the 216 men from the 1st/7th Leith Battalion who lost their lives in Britain’s worst rail disaster at Quintinshill north of Gretna in 1915

Hibs hammered the Rangers goal for the first 20 minutes of this game but could not find a way through the Referee waving aside hopeful claims when Dean Shiels hit a clearance off his own hand in the box and Liam Craig and Dominic Malonga both being denied by Cammy Bell

As the intensity of HIBS’ play dropped Rangers came more into the game Kenny Miller hitting a shot straight at Oxley and heading just past the post with a diving header from a Foster cross

Into the second half and it was all one way traffic HIBS threw caution to the wind as they ended up with four attackers with Farid El Alagui and Franck Dje Djedje joining Malonga and Cummings up front.

Rangers had parked the bus they had decided to hold what they had and there was no way through as their resolute defence withstood all HIBS attacks with Scott Allan and Dominic Malonga twice going close

Into stoppage time and Paul Hanlon hit the post during a frantic spell of HIBS pressure before Jason Cummings -too little too late - curled a sublime finish into Cammy Bell’s top right hand corner in the 94th minute

Hibs Oxley Gray Hanlon Fontaine Stevenson Craig McGeouch Fyvie Allan Malonga and Cummings

Subs El Alagui for Craig 54 Dja Djedje for Stevenson 70

Att 14742







23/5/1964 Summer Cup Play-Off

Hibernian 3 v 1 Dunfermline Athletic

Stan Vincent
Jim Scott 2

Hearts won group 4 but pulled out of the competition due to a previous commitment to tour the United States

Hibernian and Dunfermline finished equal in second place both with 6 points and both scoring 11 and conceding 9 They would have to play-off to decide which club would qualify

Hibernian easily won this play-off decider at Tynecastle against Dunfermline Athletic in front of a 14000 crowd despite being without the services of top scorer Neil Martin who was in France with Scotland Under 23s scoring the first goal in an away win

Stan Vincent and a Jim Scott double for HIBS and Bert Paton scoring for The Pars

Jock Stein’s Hibs would face Kilmarnock in the semi-final the first leg would be at Rugby Park


Hibs Wilson Fraser Leishman Stanton McNamee J Stevenson Hogg ORourke Vincent Hamilton and Scott

Att 14000



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24/5/2009 Scottish League SPL

Aberdeen 2 v 1 Hibernian

Riordan

Aberdeen beat Dundee United for the UEFA place for the second successive season on the last day of the season with this win over HIBS

HIBS got off to the worst possible start when Yves Ma-Kalambay rolled the ball to the edge of his 18 yard box and kicked his hand to foot clearance off the static Lee Miller and could only watch as the ball ricocheted into the empty net

Charlie Mulgrew made it two just before half-time with a sumptuous free-kick after successfully appealing his red card versus Rangers at Ibrox at the weekend

Derek Riordan took advantage of the euphoria in the Dons team after Mulgrew’s goal by stepping inside his man from the inside left position evading two desperate Aberdeen challenges in the box before dispatching a right foot shot into the corner of the net

Ian Murray was dismissed for a second bookable offence after obstructing flying winger Peter Pawlett in the 69th minute and Ma-Kalambay redeemed himself by saving an 86th minute Sone Aluku penalty after Jonatan Johansson had handled in the box

Hibs finished sixth in this season and Manager Mixu Paatelainen resigned at the end of the game

HIBS were knocked out of their first round of both domestic cup competitions losing to Morton at home 3-4 in the League Cup and Hearts 0-2 at Easter Road in the Scottish Cup -Referee Craig Thomson sending off Steven Fletcher for a challenge on Christophe Berra when the score was 0-0 and HIBS looking the more likely

On the bright side the Under 19s won a League and Cup double and Derek Riordan had returned to the fold following his £400000 move from Celtic (Wiki)

Hibs: Ma-Kalambay Van Zanten Jones Murray Chisholm Rankin Stevenson Bamba Thicot Fletcher and Riordan

Subs OBrien for Jones 67 Johansson for Fletcher 81

Unused McNeill Keenan McCormack Campbell and Cropley

Att 14083


Oh Ma-Kalamity!

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24/5/2003 Scottish League SPL

Hibernian 2 v 3 Partick Thistle

Matty Jack

Scott Brown


Hibs finished seventh in this season but this last game of the season was an exciting affair for the neutral observer

Matty Jack gave HIBS the lead after only 8 minutes with a header Gerry Britton equalised for the Jags in 29 minutes and Scott Brown put HIBS ahead 8 minutes later

Into the second half David Rowson equalised for Partick Thistle on 52 minutes and with five minutes to go after both sides had missed chances to score Alex OHara popped up with the winner to top off an entertaining game

Partick Thistle substitute Chic Charnley got a rousing ovation from both sets of supporters making his final appearance at this level

After the match John Lambie received a presentation from Eddie Turnbull to mark his retirement from the game John Lambie had been a Coach at Easter Road Under Turnbull in the 1970s

Fashion note: HIBS wore yellow jerseys and green shorts and Partick Thistle wore all white in this game


Hibs Colgan Whittaker Smith Jack Matyus Thomson Wiss Brebner Murray Riordan and Brown

Subs McManus Nicol


Att 9286




24/5/1981 Challenge Match

Haiti International X1 0 v 0 Hibernian



24/5/1956 Friendly

Olympique Marseilles 3 v 2 Hibernian






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23/5/2015 Scottish Premiership Play-Off Semi-Final 2nd Leg

Hibernian 1 v 0 The Rangers ( Agg 1-2 )

Cummings 94

A minutes silence was perfectly observed in the Leith sunshine for the 216 men from the 1st/7th Leith Battalion who lost their lives in Britain’s worst rail disaster at Quintinshill north of Gretna in 1915

Hibs hammered the Rangers goal for the first 20 minutes of this game but could not find a way through the Referee waving aside hopeful claims when Dean Shiels hit a clearance off his own hand in the box and Liam Craig and Dominic Malonga both being denied by Cammy Bell

As the intensity of HIBS’ play dropped Rangers came more into the game Kenny Miller hitting a shot straight at Oxley and heading just past the post with a diving header from a Foster cross

Into the second half and it was all one way traffic HIBS threw caution to the wind as they ended up with four attackers with Farid El Alagui and Franck Dje Djedje joining Malonga and Cummings up front.

Rangers had parked the bus they had decided to hold what they had and there was no way through as their resolute defence withstood all HIBS attacks with Scott Allan and Dominic Malonga twice going close

Into stoppage time and Paul Hanlon hit the post during a frantic spell of HIBS pressure before Jason Cummings -too little too late - curled a sublime finish into Cammy Bell’s top right hand corner in the 94th minute

Hibs Oxley Gray Hanlon Fontaine Stevenson Craig McGeouch Fyvie Allan Malonga and Cummings

Subs El Alagui for Craig 54 Dja Djedje for Stevenson 70

Att 14742







23/5/1964 Summer Cup Play-Off

Hibernian 3 v 1 Dunfermline Athletic

Stan Vincent
Jim Scott 2

Hearts won group 4 but pulled out of the competition due to a previous commitment to tour the United States

Hibernian and Dunfermline finished equal in second place both with 6 points and both scoring 11 and conceding 9 They would have to play-off to decide which club would qualify

Hibernian easily won this play-off decider at Tynecastle against Dunfermline Athletic in front of a 14000 crowd despite being without the services of top scorer Neil Martin who was in France with Scotland Under 23s scoring the first goal in an away win

Stan Vincent and a Jim Scott double for HIBS and Bert Paton scoring for The Pars

Jock Stein’s Hibs would face Kilmarnock in the semi-final the first leg would be at Rugby Park


Hibs Wilson Fraser Leishman Stanton McNamee J Stevenson Hogg ORourke Vincent Hamilton and Scott

Att 14000



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My wee pal Stan V scoring on his birthday. One of the funniest guys I've ever met, even though he's a closet Jambo!!

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My wee pal Stan V scoring on his birthday. One of the funniest guys I've ever met, even though he's a closet Jambo!!

A bit like ma old mucker Willie Wilson one of the nicest men you would ever want to meet but a jambo

Must admit doing my research I could not find anyone saying a bad word about Stan Vincent very funny and only too happy to stop and chat

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Thanks for these Billy. Really enjoy reading them.

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24/5/1981 Challenge Match

Haiti International X1 0 v 0 Hibernian

This was the game that turned in a huge pagger with Hibs payers lucky to get off the Island in one piece.

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This was the game that turned in a huge pagger with Hibs payers lucky to get off the Island in one piece.

Well remembered the first game a few days earlier was a rough house that HIBS lost 1-0 with HIBS players getting hacked down at every turn Both Tom Hart and Bertie Auld stated clearly that if similar treatment was meted out in the second game their players would be promptly taken from the field thereby ending the match The warning went unheeded and when Arthur Duncan was hacked down twice in a row and Ally MacLeod was knocked out in a shocking challenge Bertie Auld had seen enough and called his players off

1980/81 US Tour

9/5/1981 Fresno A 4-2

G Rae
G Murray
Macleod
Duncan

17/5/1981 SAN Jose Earthquakes A 4-2

Rae 3
Murray

21/5/1981 Haiti International X1 A 0-1
Jonnyboy has this first game result as being 0-0 in his excellent book

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Well remembered the first game a few days earlier was a rough house that HIBS lost 1-0 with HIBS players getting hacked down at every turn Both Tom Hart and Bertie Auld stated clearly that if similar treatment was meted out in the second game their players would be promptly taken from the field thereby ending the match The warning went unheeded and when Arthur Duncan was hacked down twice in a row and Ally MacLeod was knocked out in a shocking challenge Bertie Auld had seen enough and called his players off

1980/81 US Tour

9/5/1981 Fresno A 4-2

G Rae
G Murray
Macleod
Duncan

17/5/1981 SAN Jose Earthquakes A 4-2

Rae 3
Murray

21/5/1981 Haiti International X1 A 0-1
Jonnyboy has this first game result as being 0-0 in his excellent book

Pretty sure that for the Fresno game, Hibs were kinda surprised to find the game was taking place in a public park, rather than any form of stadium but was a successful run out judging by the scoreline.

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Pretty sure that for the Fresno game, Hibs were kinda surprised to find the game was taking place in a public park, rather than any form of stadium but was a successful run out judging by the scoreline.

The trip was supposed to be a reward for getting back to the Premier League and was all about team bonding

George Best played for SAN Jose and they arranged a return fixture at Easter Road

Pretty sure I read that Haiti had a Witch Doctor at the side of the pitch casting evil spells on our players

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Pretty sure I read that Haiti had a Witch Doctor at the side of the pitch casting evil spells on our players

Not sure about that but I did hear that the police, the airport officials and the general populace couldn't have been less welcoming or intimidating.

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Not sure about that but I did hear that the police, the airport officials and the general populace couldn't have been less welcoming or intimidating.

Read the Witch Doctor bit on HIBS.net so must be a fact/true.

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Read the Witch Doctor bit on HIBS.net so must be a fact/true.

If it's not it is now.

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Him and JimmyO a double act chuckle brothers

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25/5/2014 Scottish Premiership Play-Off Final 2nd Leg

Hibernian 0 v 2 Hamilton Academicals Agg: 2-2 ( Hamilton won 4-3 on pens AET )

Hibs crashed out of the Scottish Premiership after losing this play-off final second leg at home on penalty kicks

Terry Butcher’s spectacular run of bad form as HIBS Manager was ended thanks to Jason Cummings’ wonderful strikes at New Douglas Park in midweek to give HIBS a two goal advantage going into this winner takes all decider

HIBS decided to play one striker upfront, Paul Heffernan and deployed Jason Cummings as an extra midfielder Butcher also gave a start to onloan forward Danny Haynes ahead of the off form teenager Alex Harris but he had to be replaced by Harris after only six minutes after a crunching Jon Routledge challenge so HIBS were back to their midweek line-up

Six minutes later and the ball was swiftly dispatched into the HIBS net following a misplaced pass by Ryan McGivern. Ali Crawford’s interception was flicked on by Routledge to Jason Scotland whose quick turn mugged Michael Nelson before the striker’s left foot drive from just inside the box slipped under Ben Williams’ outstretched hand

Accies could smell the fear in the Stadium and as in the first leg continued to play the better controlled possession football. HIBS -who had not been performing well at home since the closure of the old East Stand back in 2010 - relied on the long hopeful ball up to Heffernan hoping for a chink in the second tier defence. This ploy almost worked as the natives grew more and more nervous Heffernan having a goal ruled out for off-side and Jason Cummings having a close range header cleared off the line shortly after Williams had saved a net bound Louis Longridge drive with an outstretched foot

Into the second half and Butcher pushed Cummings up front to join Heffernan in search of a tension releasing equaliser this reduction in midfield manpower however left HIBS’ creaking defence exposed and Williams had to be quick off his line to block a Scotland shot after his quick turn left two HIBS defenders going the other way as he bore down on goal

The match wore on and Accies continued to play the tidier controlled football Accies Manager Alex Neil brought himself on to control the tempo of the game and HIBS responded by introducing veteran Kevin Thomson for substitute Alex Harris

The clock was ticking down and after 83 minutes Heffernan was replaced by Tudor-Jones a player who later publicly admitted that he signed a contract at HIBS knowing his legs were gone ?

Deep into four minutes added on time and Butchers plan to hang on to what we had back-fired spectacularly when with seconds to go Scotland once again turned Nelson out wide and fired in a low cross that Tony Andreu turned home with his outstretched foot

There was no further scoring in Extra Time and Kevin Thomson and Jason Cummings would miss their penalties cue protests outside the ground and deserved Accies celebrations inside

Terry Butcher is statistically Hibernian’s worst ever Manager his honeymoon bounce lasted three games over Christmas and things started to go pear-shaped when we surrendered a two goal lead at Tannadice. When he took over we were nowhere near relegation lying in seventh position and then we went on a downward spiral we seemed to be incapable of getting a win and no one seemed to notice when Raith Rovers knocked us out of the Scottish Cup 2-3 at home

His man-management, motivational and tactical skills or rather lack of, team selections and accusations of bullying and use of hair brained schemes also being called into question

We were now headed for the second tier where Hearts and The Rangers were waiting for us but perhaps it was a blessing in disguise we had to change the structure of our club after years of mismanagement and get away from short term fixes it was time to regroup we certainly had to find a new Manager and a new squad of players

There is no doubt that relegation was a financial disaster to our club and was an enormous psychological blow to a club and a support who once again had been badly let down

HIBS Williams Maybury Stevenson Craig Nelson McGivern Heffernan Robertson Haynes Stanton and Cummings

Subs Harris for Haynes 8 Thomson for Harris 68 Tudor-Jones for Heffernan 83

Unused Cairney Collins Murdoch and Forster

Att 18031


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25/5/1946 Victory Cup Quarter Final Replay

Hibernian 2 v 0 Partick Thistle

Wright
Milne


Hibs won this replay after drawing 1-1 at Firhill with goals from Alex Wright and Arthur Milne

HIBS would go on to defeat Clyde in the semi-final at Tynecastle and lose to Rangers 1-3 in the final at Hampden Park in front of a crowd of 100000 HIBS would have a man sent off



25/5/1895 Scottish League Division Two old

Airdrieonians 2 v 4 Hibernian

Hibs were Second Division Champions for the second successive year but still there was no automatic promotion Hibernian had to campaign all the clubs in the First Division many who were bigoted against the Irishmen and fearful of what a strong Hibernian side could do in the First Division

The press were on our side this was a match report of the above match:

“ I know of no club that can bombard a goal in the style of Hibernian and from some of these terrific rallies Martin, Murray and Murphy scored with shots that you only get from Hibernian With such a magnificent season’s record the public are confident that Hibernian will certainly figure among the elite of the upper ten “

Of the top ten St Bernard’s the Scottish Cup winners confirmed their support whilst Hearts and Leith Athletic dithered but all the clubs in the West and beyond were visited and all confirmed their support Hibernian were finally dining at the top table of the Scottish football elite

Championship medals were issued and the Championship Flag was unfurled of the Irishmens own design

“ green with a yellow harp and no crown with the inscription Hibernian Football Club Erin Go Bragh Scottish League 2nd Division Champions 1894-95”



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26/5/2013 Scottish Cup Final

Hibernian 0 v 3 Celtic

With Leigh Griffiths clearly not 100% Eoin Doyle was probably our best chance of a goal and he blew his lines with a header that was too close to Fraser Forster in the opening minutes ...unlucky!

After that it was the Anthony Stokes show

A younger leaner meaner fitter Stokes did to us what he was to do against The Rangers three years later though thankfully he did not score laying two goals on a plate for Gary Hooper with whipped in crosses and generally being a pest the whole game

Hooper should have had a hat-trick into the second half but took a fresh air swipe at Lustig’s pass in front of goal but Joe Ledley followed up to hit a rising shot high into Williams’ net to give the score perhaps an unfair reflection but I suppose no one could realistically argue

The large HIBS support were defiant until the end, we would be back, but little did they know there would be even more pain to follow

111 years and counting

Hibs Williams Maybury Hanlon Forster McGivern Claros Taiwo Thomson Harris Doyle and Griffiths

Subs Handling for Doyle 71 Caldwell for Thomson 76 Stevenson for Griffiths 84

Unused Murdoch Robertson

Att 51254


https://youtu.be/_EPknvzqGnY



26/5/2001 Scottish Cup Final

Hibernian 0 v 3 Celtic


Hibs to have any chance of winning this would have to be at their very best to compete with Martin O’Neill’s very strong and physical treble chasing Celtic team Unfortunately, unknown to us mere HIBS fans at the time, Le God looked as though he was carrying an injury and we were without our talismanic midfielder Russell Latapy who had effectively been sacked by the club There was also no place in the squad for Tam McManus who had scored in every round other than the semi-final

Hibs held their own up until Jackie McNamara replaced Lubo Moravcik on 18 minutes he then proceeded to rip us apart scoring on 39 minutes. Larsson added a second just after half-time before finishing the scoring with a soft penalty after being pulled down by Gary Smith with 10 minutes left

99 years and counting

Hibs Colgan Smith Sauzee Fenwick Laursen ONeill Jack Brebner Murray Libbra and Paatelainen

Subs Arpinon Lovell and Zitelli

Att 51824

https://youtu.be/c1FAEO47s9c


26/5/1965 Summer Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg

Motherwell 6 v 2 Hibernian ( Agg 6-4 )

Cormack pen
Quinn

Hibs went into this second leg two goals up from the first leg but Motherwell very quickly reversed this score in ninety minutes

Into extra-time and the wheels very quickly came off the bus for HIBS as despite goals from Cormack ( pen) and Quinn Motherwell added another four of their own to end Hibs’ defence of the trophy

Motherwell would beat Dundee United in the final 3-2 on aggregate

Hibs Wilson Simpson Davis Stanton McNamee and Baxter Scott Quinn ORourke Cormack and Stevenson




26/5/1945 Summer Cup Round 1 1st Leg

St Mirren 4 v 2 Hibernian

Smith 2


Hibs lost this first leg at Love Street but would go on to win the second leg 7-0 at Easter Road

Hibs would lose the final to Partick Thistle at Hampden after defeating Celtic in the semi-final 2-0 at Tynecastle


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Willie Irvine #1



Hibernian On This Day Colquhoun and Sinnet




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