I am sure you have many great Scottish Cup final memories. For me the best was Airdrieonians, twice. My earliest memory of attending a final was the 1975 win, Kenny Dalglish, Paul Wilson and Pat McCluskey. Watched big Billy and Jinky emerge from Hampden with the trophy after the game.
Then, of course, there was that huge final in 1995. Six years without a trophy, Celtic were at their lowest point in decades and had already lost a final to Raith Rovers that season. Beating Airdrieonians in that final is one of the most important victories in Celtic history.
By any measure, apart from Scottish Cups, Hibs are the fifth biggest team in Scotland, yet they haven’t won the Cup in 110 years. Since then the Wright brothers headed to Kitty Hawk and tried to get ‘Flyer’ off the ground for the first time in history and Teddy Rosevelt made history by becoming the first US president to ride in a motor car.
If they can pull a good 90 minutes together today, Hibs might become the first club in Scottish footballs’ rebirth. They have reclaimed thousands of fans in recent weeks and are proof that there is life outside Glasgow.
Good luck to them.
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The Bottom Line,
I must be getting old but I can’t remember the 4-0 Glasgow Cup Final.
I still see in the old mind’s eye, the young George Connelly rounding Greig with consummate grace and ease and sticking the ball in the net. Brilliant.
The 1967 Final …………was one of the most professional, clinical performances I’ve ever seen from any team.
Willie Wallace scored both in a 2 nil ( going on 20 nil ) victory.
Afterwards, of course, we took the road to Lisbon ……………………and folklore was written.
Mon the Hibs!
A lot of their supporters believe strongly in justice and are willing to abandon the Scottish game in light of the sporting integrity scandal. Good luck to them.
Bottom Line. I was at both of those games. The 4-0 Cup final at Hampden was just about the most one sided huns game ever, since the score line flattered rankers.
The incomparable George Connelly tore thems a new one.
1st Scottish Cup Final for me 1967 against Aberdeen.
The Celtic team that day…
Simpsom, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeil, Clark, Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, Auld and Lennox
2nd Scottish Cup Final – 1969 Celtic 4 Rangers 0
Now I will switch over to Sky coverage. However, a wee observation about Pat Nevin. He changed his fav team from Celtic to Hibs because of Celtic’s irishness. However, why choose Hibs? As a Glasgow boy, why not Partick his home City, or Motherwell who he played for, why Hibs? Strange one that! Strang choice from the strangest wee man.
hh
bjmac
PS Mic1888 – you’re showing your age big man! Hope all is well. hh
Sorry guys. Posted earlier 1965 result was 1-0. I wasn’t p+++ so why did I not forget the comebacks and Big Billy’s headed winner. 3-2 and Billy’s was very like Voijjjsgggeeeenyyaa – or was that the girl I met at the dancin’ that night? Now it’s age not drink!
H H
rankers greatest ever player (sic) had a look of fear on his coupon every time the imperious Connelly got the ball.
Happy days!
For the 1954 Cup Final I had to listen to the radio because my Dad would not take me and my older brother.However I distinctly remember the team bus coming down Crown Street in the Gorbals.Celtic had won 2-1 against Aberdeen.Sean Fallon scoring the winner.
Next year we played Clyde and I was in the North Enclosure.Jimmy Walsh scored but in the dying moments Clyde equalised direct from a corner at the Celtic end.I went to the replay and we lost 1-0.Still remember walking home with my Dad that dank and dreary day.
The following year we played Hearts,1956 as tomthethim has written earlier.I went with my Mum,Dad and older brother.I remember my Dad being attcked in the North Enclosure by some Hearts fans- they called him a fenian bas—d.He didn’t take prisoners despite being with his family.However we lost 3-1.
We lost again in 1960 to Dunfermline after a replay.I was truly heartbroken with this one.Deferats again followed by Rangers until that glorious day in 1965 when evrything clicked under Jock.
That was my first Scottish Cup win and I was almost 18 years old.
I did have one consolation during that long wait.
I got to go to the 7-1 League Cup final in 1957.
Hope the Hibs win the cup today although in the last 24 hours I have travelled from Rio de Janeiro to Paris to London and fully expected to be in Glasgow today to see the Bhoys lift another trophy.
Ah well we will win it next year!
Green Lantern:
“The 4-0 Cup final at Hampden was just about the most one sided huns game ever, since the score line flattered rankers.”
You know, I thought that too on the day and in all my memories since till one night our local supporters club showed it on a charity night. We couldn’t miss that day and could have scored more but I was shocked at how much they were actually in the game. Mind you, I’m sticking to my memories. Much more enjoyable!
H H
Whilst I can understand but never condone a bunch of fans who get caught up in the argie-bargie of a game and the heated atmosphere, then lose control and start a fight. I can on no account understand the mentality of people who jump fans from another club, whom they aren’t even playing that day, as they casually walk along the street.
Me and my mates were walking up to the bus station in Edinburgh after returning from Celtic – Aberdeen game (not Hearts!) when a bunch of Hearts fans came up behind us and set upon us. Totally unprovoked, we didn’t even know they were behind us. Thankfully a bunch of bystanders stepped in to help us or we would have had a doing.
The core Hearts fans are exactly the same as those of RFCia.
I have some friends who are Hearts fans but take away the colours and you’d be hard pushed to tell them apart from RFCia fans.
One of the funniest days ever when they blew the league up at Dundee.
I don’t know if the story is true but there is the tale of Hearts fans in Edinburgh pub that year drowning their sorrows, when one fan tries to raise their spirits…
Give me an H, “H”, give me an E, “E” ….
Put it together and what have you got?
Hibee fan shouts out “F-ck All”.
Brilliant!
My first final was also Jock Stein’s first as a manager. Unfortunately he was managing Dunfermline. 0-0 on the Saturday and 2-0 soaked at the Celtic End with Dennis Connachan outstanding for the ‘Pars. Still see in my mind’s eye that drive from Paddy Crerand heading to the postage stamp corner before the tip of Connachan’s fingers tipped it over.
Been there 2 years before at semi final time 3-0 down at half time to St Mirren and the old guy beside me telling me not to worry we’d be back on Wednesday for the replay just as they scored a fourth. A scenario repeated the year after the Dunfermline defeat this time 3-0 down at Ibrox at half time before losing 3-1 and sheltering under a coat stretched over a barrier as protection from the bottles and glasses raining down. Then on to the 1963 1-1 with Rangers in the rain again and the good fortune to be refused the money to go to the replay as my Dad had been out of work for a year so missed a 3-0 defeat. Then came 1965. None could ever have as much importance in my Celtic supporting life. 8 years of constant losses and then the beginning of a fairytale.
garcia lorca on 19 May, 2012 at 14:07 said:
Thanks – your post just about covered everything I was going to say.
SC Final 1954 was my 1st – my Grandpa took me (just before I started school)………. little was I to know that I would be just about to leave school in 1965 before we would lift the Scottish Cup again!
Hard going in those days being a Celtic supporting school boy (’57 aside)!!
skyisalandfill on 19 May, 2012 at 12:40 said:
Thanks for the post.
Enjoyed that.
Hope your Mum’s team get a result today.
HH
Rob McLean reckons DUFCs victory at Ipox was the start of Rangers disintegration on the field… Nothing about the 15pts dropped in the preceding 10 weeks….
First ever cup tie was the 1984 Final v Aberdeen….
I am NL in Tauranga
I see that you read SIALF the same as me. Sky island.
My eyes went wonky trying to read it without Caps and breaks.
First cup final I can remember attending was the centenary, my dad took me and my bro to the 6-1 but I was really young and only have a vague memory of the pipe band at halftime.
In 88 ‘she’ was there and my claim to fame was as the faithful chanted ‘ whos the mason in the black ‘ to waddel i think.
I started ‘whos the tory in the black’.
Slowly but surely it spread and got louder till every hoop was singing it, it was nice and clear on the video’s of the match.
My one and only time of starting a song at a match.
A brilliant end to a brilliant season.
Still a little disappointed big Roy wiped his hand before shaking her’s, if I’d shaken her hand I’d have spat in it first.
Is she dead yet?
Best memories
1985 Scottish cup final
My first final with my brother ,who had Give up hope when we got free kick outside box.
My brother being a big stats man informs me no goal had been scored straight from free kick in sc final.
So i say to my brother who was ready for the off.
This is going in the top corner, if not I will go home with him if we do not score.
Trust me top corner no probs
Free kick……….goal…..bedlam..
My brother then hopes for extra- time
So again tell him fork extra time we winning this before 90 mins
The rest as they say is history but still today cannot remember much of the game till the free kick.
Then came the 1988 Scottish cup final
Just told him to believe like 85 and yet again we scored the 2 goals.
Told my brother that Celtic only score into the Celtic end because I was there.;))))
Even to this day at every game we never leave till the final whistle no matter the opposition.
KTF
Jam67
Mon the Edinburgh IRISH!!!
A roasting hot day May ’89
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfnT9aUw93A
weeJoemillerCSC
RRC: on 19 May, 2012 at 14:04 said:
1st Scottish Cup Final for me 1967 against Aberdeen.
The Celtic team that day…
Simpsom, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeil, Clark, Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, Auld and Lennox…………….
RRC, that sounds like a pretty good team selection…..Hope we can keep them together!!!
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
bjmac on 19 May, 2012 at 14:06 said:
Hope your business is doing well mate.
C’mon the Hibees, Blackpool and Bayern Munchen.
roy croppie on 19 May, 2012 at 14:24 said:
Great memories, my last game before I left Scotland, The Dolphin was rocking..
First cup final 69. We were underdogs and the huns had a banquet arranged at ibrox for their win!
BRB still splitting his sides.
roy croppie
I remember that day. I was round at my grandfather’s watching it and remember him doing his nut at Terry Butcher’s thuggery.
The aftermath of the game was cracking, playing with my cousins in the back garden.
Beautiful day that day.
I remember my grandmother commenting when Rangers players went up for the runners up medals – where’s that handsome man? (Talking about Souness but with massive overtones of irony). She always called him – That handsome man because some journo had described him like that. She always stuck to that line. It always made me laugh.
starry
I was so nervous I spent the second half in the toilets at the top of the Celtic end. I peeked out once and Butcher scored…thankfully chopped off.
I’m another of the 1967 vintage. I was 10 and sooooooo excited. Wasn’t it the Saturday after our away game at Dukla? My Dad and I always walked to games from Govan and I still remember walking by shawlands cross and the crowd getting bigger. Glory Days!!!
garcia lorca on 19 May, 2012 at 14:07 …….
Great story…….. I know sometimes on here you refer to your brother Gordon…….
Hope that you don’t mind me asking but is your other brother..Jim C???
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
I wasn’t at the 7-1 huns game, but remember the sense of anticipation about seeing the game later on BBC and being utterly crestfallen when it was announced that the cameraman had “forgotten” to take the lens cover off the camera, so the match couldn’t be shown.
It had obviously been decided at a hastily convened ludge meeting that their humiliation could not be given public exposure.
This is one of the abiding memories from my childhood, but it makes their impending demise all the sweeter now.
Snake Plissken
was a great day. Hampden in the sun.
Huns attacked our bus on the way home and got more than they bargained for when the driver pulled over and let us all out.
Greenlion2 on 19 May, 2012 at 13:00 said:
Thanks for sharing that.
If that doesn’t cheer you up….
Fab
HH
Any news on The Huns disruption of the final or have they shat it?
The Bottom Line
Best Final ?
3 -2 against Dunfermline in ’65. Jock Stein’s first trophy. The Turning Point.
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Your dead right. It was the turning point. And what a game it was! Behind twice then big Billy’s towering header with minutes to go, I believe it was that goal which inspired the chant ‘There’s only one King Billy – that’s McNeill.’ .
MCTALL
Leave the tin hat aside, you’re amongst friends.
We all want the bigot plods done.
HH
1st Scottish Cup Final we lost to Aberdeen. McStay was magnificent.
Favourite final was beating Dundee Utd 2-1 in 1988 because it was the double until we beat Hibs in 2001 to complete the Treble.
Also hoping for a Hibs,Blackpool, Bayern treble but maybe be lucky to get one out of three.
One thing on the sectarian free Edinburgh derby final – why are Hibs in the traditional Celtic end and Hearts in the former Rangers end?
skyisalandfill on 19 May, 2012 at 12:40 said:
Superb post mate!
HH
M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Igx-J0z4bM
2001 Treble secured
Celtic 3-0 Hibees