Sunshine on Leith

[Mcbizz1998]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I also recall a fairly hefty chunk of our support chanting "USA, USA". It was about two weeks after the 9/11 attacks. I'm not sure what we'd chant about the USA now but I don't think it would be particularly supportive...

You think if 3 thousand people were murdered in a terrorist attack on US soil today, the Hibs support would chant unsupportive things about the USA?

[jakeshibs]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I also recall a fairly hefty chunk of our support chanting "USA, USA". It was about two weeks after the 9/11 attacks. I'm not sure what we'd chant about the USA now but I don't think it would be particularly supportive...

Why even mention this on SOL thread, we have a special relationship with the US and always will. History will remind you of it and recent conflicts were we support them is testimony to that relationship. However this was about SOL and how fantastic it was as it echoed around Leith.

[CropleyWasGod]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

That was part of the AGM presentation yes. Also satellite facilities in the west side of Edinburgh and in Lanarkshire. I don’t remember the timescale mentioned but exciting times for the profile and development of the club.

Is this in addition to, or instead of, the helipad?

[Jones28]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

It’s been my stock wynd up question all week to them…

Me - it’s a question I’ve always wanted to ask you lot.
Yam - Go On
Me - See when you’re leaving ER, can you hear SOL clearly?
Yam - silence…
Me - And is it loud?
Yam - Silence or rage

It truly is a joy to behold.

I’m sure Joe Caulfield the comedian lives up towards London Road and put a video on Twitter when Nisbet scored the winner in 2023, you could hear it clear as day in that so sure as **** as those fuds left the ground they’d have heard it.

[Alex Trager]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Not just our ground but our training complex too.

Well that was my thinking.

He was pulled up consistently by hibbys who made the training ground point, but never mentioned the stadium which made me start to think ‘is this choob right?’

[One Day Soon]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

You think if 3 thousand people were murdered in a terrorist attack on US soil today, the Hibs support would chant unsupportive things about the USA?

No, either I haven't expressed myself clearly or you have misinterpreted what I'm saying. I am suggesting that it is more likely at this point that their orange ******** of a President will do something that has the effect of causing anti, rather than pro, American feeling.

[One Day Soon]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Why even mention this on SOL thread, we have a special relationship with the US and always will. History will remind you of it and recent conflicts were we support them is testimony to that relationship. However this was about SOL and how fantastic it was as it echoed around Leith.

I mentioned it only because we had reached a point where reference was being made to SoL being sung at the AEK game. The pro USA chanting that night was noteworthy at the time - I hadn't previously heard anything like it and - although I think it was at least partially because the AEK support was not of a pro-American bent. I remember it because i was surprised and impressed by it.

We have had an immensely powerful and important relationship with the USA for the last 80 years up until now. It is currently being recklessly torched by the fascists occupying their government in their actions towards us and our allies and friends. I'll leave it there as this is more appropriate for the Holy Ground.

[JeMeSouviens]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I mentioned it only because we had reached a point where reference was being made to SoL being sung at the AEK game. The pro USA chanting that night was noteworthy at the time - I hadn't previously heard anything like it and - although I think it was at least partially because the AEK support was not of a pro-American bent. I remember it because i was surprised and impressed by it.

We have had an immensely powerful and important relationship with the USA for the last 80 years up until now. It is currently being recklessly torched by the fascists occupying their government in their actions towards us and our allies and friends. I'll leave it there as this is more appropriate for the Holy Ground.

Did the AEK fans not burn a US flag at the away leg? Probably more of a wind up?

Edit: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...239-story.html (also a wee reminder of how great the self-proclaimed "greatest fans in the world" can be when the mood takes them)

[Mcbizz1998]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Did the AEK fans not burn a US flag at the away leg? Probably more of a wind up?

Edit: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...239-story.html (also a wee reminder of how great the self-proclaimed "greatest fans in the world" can be when the mood takes them)

Wow, what a shower of utter ****bags.

[GreenCastle]

1991 Skol Cup final.. sung at the end ? Was at game but too young to remember.

[CropleyWasGod]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

1991 Skol Cup final.. sung at the end ? Was at game but too young to remember.

Pretty sure it wasn't.

It hadn't really caught on IIRC, albeit the guys did sing it at the rally at ER a year or so before.

[CallumLaidlaw]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Pretty sure it wasn't.

It hadn't really caught on IIRC, albeit the guys did sing it at the rally at ER a year or so before.

DID they sing it at the rally? I know they sang you’ll never walk alone funnily enough.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[gbhibby]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Did the AEK fans not burn a US flag at the away leg? Probably more of a wind up?

Edit: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...239-story.html (also a wee reminder of how great the self-proclaimed "greatest fans in the world" can be when the mood takes them)

Did they not have a sheet with a drawing of the planes going into the twin towers at Easter Road and did airplane actions during the game as well.

[CropleyWasGod]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

DID they sing it at the rally? I know they sang you’ll never walk alone funnily enough.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hmmm... now you got me thinking

I can't put my hand on my h**rt now and say that they did......

[CallumLaidlaw]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Hmmm... now you got me thinking

I can't put my hand on my h**rt now and say that they did......

Couple of interesting wee links -


https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...anthem-2875873

https://www.hibeesbounce.com/threads...k-alone.48007/


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[MM19]

I'm sure they played Sunshine on Leith at Hampden when we won on penalties against Rangers in the League cup semi final in 2004.

[Pagan Hibernia]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Couple of interesting wee links -


https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...anthem-2875873

https://www.hibeesbounce.com/threads...k-alone.48007/


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hibs fans trying to get YNWA reintroduced as a 'Hibs song' as late as 2006... I've nothing against the song but the idea of being just another club that sings it when everyone knows it as a Liverpool FC anthem leaves me very cold. I'm glad we let it go.

Interesting that SoL hadn't really caught on in 2006. A few on there didn't like it and a few others complaining that nobody sang along except for the chorus. How times change.

[Since452]

YNWA used to be a great spectacle. Now it's just an oversaturated gimmick that loads of clubs do. SOL will never be like that. That's what makes it so special.

[vincipernoi]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Hmmm... now you got me thinking

I can't put my hand on my h**rt now and say that they did......

I was at the Hands off hibs rally, and (I think) I remember YNWA but not SOL.

SOL was part of the soundtrack played over footage of the HOH rally on the video of 'the team that would not die' which would maybe make it seem that it had been played.

[Pagan Hibernia]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

YNWA used to be a great spectacle. Now it's just an oversaturated gimmick that loads of clubs do. SOL will never be like that. That's what makes it so special.

YNWA belted out on a special, emotional occasion (eg Klopp's last game, or that post Hillsborough Cup Final in 1989) is spectacular and might just have the edge on SOL. Might. And even then it's very close.

The standard 3pm Saturday pre-match going-through-motions YNWA vs SOL? No contest. Sunshine on Leith by a country mile.

The sense of occasion is the difference and it's why we need to resist any attempt to get it played more regularly.

[S4uzee]

Sorry if already posted but who was the wee boy on the pitch at the end?

[CentreLine]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Is this in addition to, or instead of, the helipad?

Hopefully in addition. Every big team should have one🚁

[LaMotta]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I was at the Hands off hibs rally, and (I think) I remember YNWA but not SOL.

SOL was part of the soundtrack played over footage of the HOH rally on the video of 'the team that would not die' which would maybe make it seem that it had been played.

That was the first time I'd ever heard the song on that video.

[WhileTheChief..]

I liked it when we used to sing YNWA.

We did a cool wee speedied-up, clappy bit in double time that was different to everyone else that sang it.

The USA chants were definitely in response to the AEK flag burning thing and I remember their fans doing the airplane gesture. ****.

[Viva_Palmeiras]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

That was the first time I'd ever heard the song on that video.

I dont recall it being played at the rally at either ER - although I had to leave just before the end to get to the Stone Roses gig on Glasgow Green - or at the Usher Hall - only recalled Margot chairing and getting the likes of Goram, Torfasson? And Robbo up to speak on behalf of players across the league.

[oneone73]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I'm sure they played Sunshine on Leith at Hampden when we won on penalties against Rangers in the League cup semi final in 2004.

Don't remember that. Mind you, after the pens, we had to leave sharpish to sprint down to Queen Street for the last train.

[Johnny Clash]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I'm sure they played Sunshine on Leith at Hampden when we won on penalties against Rangers in the League cup semi final in 2004.

Yes I remember that too! I was a wee bit surprised at the time .

[snedzuk]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

No, either I haven't expressed myself clearly or you have misinterpreted what I'm saying. I am suggesting that it is more likely at this point that their orange ******** of a President will do something that has the effect of causing anti, rather than pro, American feeling.

Be absolutely shocking if he did something that stopped young men like Mykola Kukharevich being sent to their deaths

[One Day Soon]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Be absolutely shocking if he did something that stopped young men like Mykola Kukharevich being sent to their deaths

He doesn't give one **** about that. If he can't own it, extort it or have his arse kissed by it he's not interested.

[HoboHarry]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

He doesn't give one **** about that. If he can't own it, extort it or have his arse kissed by it he's not interested.

How many politicians do give a **** ? Very few I'd suggest outside of their public pretence.