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UPDATED -
March 2004
LATEST: SKOL CUP 1991
For pre-85 stuff, see Doug Raith's site - From Argentina to (Benny) Brazil
These pages contain a selective archive of newspaper cuttings and programmes covering most of the major events (and many minor ones) in the history of Hibernian Football Club from 1986 to the present day.
Since I moved from Edinburgh to Cambridge in late 1986 my good old Dad has been faithfully snipping out the football pages of The Scotsman newspaper and sending them down to me so that I can keep in touch with Scottish football, and Hibs in particular. These pages are therefore something of a tribute to his dedication rather than mine - and he doesn't even follow football!
On the increasingly rare occasions when I've managed to get to a game I've tried to collect a programme, and those are included, sometimes in place of press cuttings. They aren't always of the big games (neither are the cuttings) but always provide something of interest to the diehard Hibby (which you must be or you wouldn't be here).
This is a work in (slow) progress - I'll be adding pages in chronological order as and when I have time and will post notification of updates to the Hibs list and the Message Boards at Hibs.net and the Hibees Bounce. If anyone has any information to add to any of the pages - personal memories, anecdotes, libel suits etc - please feel free to mail me at fraserp@quista.net. No comments on the budget web authoring please - like a team trained by Alex Miller, dull functionality is the watchword here.
Also! Ropey pictures of Easter Road showing the old East Terracing...Click here!
March 25
Oh well, it wasn't quite what we had planned. Which is what Benny Brazil said when he found himself driving his open topped bus around Livingston instead of Leith last Sunday night.
Click on Benny's torn face (sorry, that's the cutting, not his expression) to read the whole piece from last week's Edinburgh Evening News. The online article can be found here.
Personally I reckon Benny looks more like Blakey than Reg Butler. Not sure I like the colour of that jacket either...
March 2004
LET'S RAISE ANOTHER CUP
Well I said something about a medal. As I write, three days before Sunday's CIS League Cup final, here's hoping that Bobby's Bairns can go where Turnbull's Tornadoes and, erm, Miller's... Miller's.... Nope, there's something about Alex Miller that just doesn't encourage soubriquets.
All the same, to galvanise yourselves for the weekend ahead, have a look back to 1991 and the last time we won a trophy. See you all at Hampden.
January 2004
Despite Saturday's highly encouraging win at Kilmarnock, this season is now likely to go the way of last - into oblivion - unless we can somehow manage to overcome Rangers at Hampden in the League Cup semi in February.
Given the extent of our injuries and inability to afford any new players this would be an even more remarkable achievement than our disposal of Celtic, Rangers' utter mediocrity notwithstanding.
I will not subscribe to the Sack Bobby Williamson campaign however. There is not another available and affordable manager who would do any better in the circumstances. There is next to no chance of relegation becoming a danger, and if Williamson could even get this team into the top six he would deserve a medal.
Becalmed after the storm
Looking back to 1990-91, as I now invite you to do, is hardly likely to bring warm memories rushing back to supplant the chill of our current plight. There are, though, several interesting echoes of the present debates on league size and live TV. The Hearts chairman continued to make a public fool of himself as well, so no change there either.
Italia '90
Ok, ok, I know I promised this ages ago, but there's an awful lot of it, and it's nearly done. Just bear with me ok.
Hibs.net - look no further for the latest news on Hibs...
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The Hibees Bounce -
It's kind of... bouncy
From Argentina to (Benny) Brazil - Doug Raith's fabulous collection of cuttings and programmes from 1978-89, neatly complementing these pages
Mass Hibsteria - another majestic archive, this time of Hibs' most hibsterical fanzine
The Greatest Game in History - But which one? 7-0 or 6-2? You decide.
Hibernian FC - official club site
Not a matter of life and death
Geez I'm bored. Apart from Rounds by Four Tet I haven't heard anything that great for a while. Haven't had much money to splash it must be said, so the best I can manage is sneaking into Fopp every so often to get a few back catalogue cheapos.
The wife got me the Can DVD for Christmas. Unfortunately we don't have a DVD player yet...
Going to see Kraftwerk at the Royal Festival Hall in March though. Cycling kit would appear to be de rigeur.
I seem to keep returning to Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western soundtracks. On the Good the Bad and the Ugly (see film poster here) there's a great track called The Ecstasy of Gold. Probably not about the feelings of our erstwhile chairman Lex when he was offered the Chair of the SPL you think, until you realise that it's an ironic title. As I recall the piece accompanies the bit near the end of the film where Eli Wallach is stood tottering on top of an old rickety grave cross, hands tied, with his neck in a noose. Pretty apt after all then.