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Hibernian's David Wotherspoon celebrates after opening the scoring. Picture: SNS

Hibernian 1 - 0 Dundee: Hibs clinch seventh place

FOR the Hibs manager Pat Fenlon and maybe even his players, the focus really was on three points and the chance to finish the league season in seventh place. Everyone else’s minds have long since wandered along the M8 to Hampden.

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Derek Townsley celebrates. Picture: SNS

Hibee history: Townsley settles it at year’s end

St Johnstone 0 - 1 Hibs; May 12, 2002

Hibs players and officials parade through the city after winning the League Cup in 2007. Picture: Jon Savage

Hibs cup final parade planned for Monday 27th May

PLANS for the first Hibs Scottish Cup victory parade since 1902 have been finalised – all the Easter Road side have to do now is win.

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Hibs manager Pat Fenlon. Picture: Jane Barlow

Fenlon says Hibs youngsters ready for Cup final

HIBS boss Pat Fenlon today insisted he would have no qualms about throwing any of his Easter Road kids into next weekend’s Scottish Cup final against Celtic as he revealed skipper James McPake remains a doubt ahead of the Hampden showdown with the SPL champions.

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Hibernian star Jordon Forster. Picture: SNS

Hibs’ Forster dreaming of taking on Celtic in final

HIBS kid Jordon Forster today admitted he’d be lying if he were to claim he wasn’t dreaming of facing Celtic – the club he turned his back on three years ago – in next weekend’s Scottish Cup final.

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Hibs' Scott Robertson. Picture: TSPL

Hibs’ Robertson keen to take on heroes Dundee

IT may be the final SPL match of the season, but as far as Hibs star Scott Robertson is concerned, there is still all to play for as he prepares to face his boyhood heroes Dundee for the first time in his career.

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Pat Fenlon has urged fans to give his players a 'Hampden send-off'. Picture: Greg Macvean

Pat Fenlon: ‘Decent season’ ahead of last SPL game

PAT FENLON today urged Hibs fans to give his players a “Hampden send-off” in their final SPL match against relegated Dundee tomorrow.

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Leigh Griffiths has scored 28 goals for Hibs this season, prompting Wolves to extend his contract. Picture: Neil Hanna

Wolves extend Leigh Griffiths contract

WOLVES have confirmed that they have taken up a one-year contract extension option on Scottish striker Leigh Griffiths, who has been on loan at Hibs for the past 18 months.

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Scott Robertson celebrates. Picture: David Lamb

Scott Robertson says Hibs goal was long overdue

Scott Robertson today breathed a huge sigh of relief after scoring his first goal for Hibs and admitted: “It was long overdue.”

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Eoin Doyle scores for Hibs. Picture: David Lamb

Eoin Doyle extends Hibs’ unbeaten run

Eoin DOYLE staked a claim for his place in Hibs Scottish Cup final team as he struck twice in the final four minutes to fire Pat Fenlon’s side into pole position in the race for seventh place in the SPL table as the Easter Road outfit stretched their unbeaten run to five matches.

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Pat Fenlon. Picture: Greg Macvean

Pat Fenlon: Hibs must focus on league, not Hampden

PAT FENLON insisted today that his side must focus on 
getting victories from their final two league matches – and not the Scottish Cup final.

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After watching Hibs beat Hearts at Tynecastle, Pat Fenlon is aiming for a seventh-place finish and a Cup final victory. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Hibs may rest Leigh Griffiths for Scottish Cup

PAT FENLON knows Leigh Griffiths will be less than happy if he finds himself sitting on the sidelines tonight. However, the Hibs manager admitted that’s exactly what he’s thinking about doing for the SPL clash with Kilmarnock.

Leigh Griffiths with his third award of the season  the Clydesdale Bank Premier League Player of the Season. Picture: SNS

Hibs’ Leigh Griffiths not counting on Scotland call

Leigh GRIFFITHS today claimed that even if he 
becomes the first Hibs player in 40 years to score 30 goals in a season he won’t be guaranteed a place in Gordon Strachan’s Scotland squad for next month’s World Cup qualifying match against Croatia

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Tim Clancy is fighting to get back to fitness. Picture: SNS

Tim Clancy could miss Hibs’ Scottish Cup final

Hibs boss Pat Fenlon has 
revealed Easter Road defender Tim Clancy is in grave danger of missing the Scottish Cup 
final against Celtic through 
injury.

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Jordon Forster, right, celebrates with Paul Hanlon at the final whistle as Hearts player Ryan Stevenson shows his utter dejection. Picture: SNS

Hibs’ Jordon Forster ecstatic after derby win

Jordon FORSTER was pretty pleased with his week’s work. Hibs Under-20s had beaten league and cup double winning Celtic twice in the space of three days to secure third place in the table. Things couldn’t get much better as far as the 19-year-old defender was concerned.

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Ross Caldwell celebrates. Picture: Greg Macvean

Pat Fenlon’s pep talk drove Hibs to beat Hearts

Pat Fenlon today revealed his pep talk to a team reeling from losing a goal to arch-rivals Hearts on the stroke of half-time was simple and to the point: “You are the better team, go and win it.”

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Hibs matchwinner Ross says balance of power is shifting

HibS kid Ross Caldwell 
insisted yesterday’s victory 
over city rivals Hearts proves the balance of power in 
Edinburgh is turning towards Leith.

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Pic Greg Macvean. Ross Caldwell scores

Long wait for Hibs win at Tynecastle is over

The tide may not have entirely turned as match-winner Ross Caldwell claimed in the euphoric aftermath of Hibs’ first derby win at Tynecastle in four years – but there has certainly been a subtle shift in power towards the east end of the Capital.

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Michael Weir: Attack-minded approach won the day for Pat

T he Edinburgh derby is anything but a meaningless fixture in the football calendar – whatever stage of the season it is contested at. Supporters of both clubs savour the intense rivalry that exists 
between the two sides and that was plain to see in yesterday’s encounter at Tynecastle.

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Picture: SNS

Hearts 1 - 2 Hibs: late winner seals victory Picture gallery

WITH little more at stake than a shamefaced squabble over ninth or tenth place, this had been billed by some as the most insignificant Edinburgh derby in years.

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Scott Brown hits the target. Picture: SNS

Hibee history: Broony exits with a bang

Hibernian 2 - 1 Celtic, May 20 2007

Fenlon: Will give duo time. Picture: Greg Macvean

Fenlon will give Hibs duo time to prove fitness

PAT FENLON has revealed Ryan McGivern and Tim Clancy will face late fitness tests ahead of tomorrow’s derby with Hearts, but insisted if they are fit they will play at Tynecastle.

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Ross Caldwell of Hibs. Picture: TSPL

Hibs’ Caldwell looking to carry youth form to Derby

ROSS CALDWELL has been the scourge of Hearts at youth level, the powerful striker boasting a record of seven goals in seven starts against the junior Jambos. The Hibs kid, however, admits he’d gladly swap all of them for the winner at Tynecastle tomorrow.

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Hibs hero is streets ahead

HE once led the way as Hibs travelled the road to Hampden en route to lifting the Skol Cup – and now he’s laying the 
concrete himself.

Pat Fenlon. Picture: SNS

Hibs boss won’t rest his stars for derby showdown

Pat Fenlon today claimed he will not give Hibs’ impending Scottish Cup final a second thought when he picks his team for Sunday’s final Edinburgh derby of the season.

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Leigh Griffiths. Picture: Neil Hanna

Leigh Griffiths eager to break record at derby

There are some who want Leigh Griffiths wrapped in cotton wool, protected from the potentially bruising effects of an Edinburgh derby just two weeks before Hibs face SPL champions Celtic in the final of the Scottish Cup.

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Leigh Griffiths. Picture: Neil Hanna

Leigh Griffiths ready for Edinburgh Derby

Hibs striker Leigh Griffiths today revealed that being rested for the William Hill Scottish Cup final is the last thing on his mind – especially when he has the chance to score against Capital rivals Hearts and net a landmark 30 goals for the Easter Road club.

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Stanton has no regrets about leaving Sir Alex

Pat STANTON was at Sir Alex Ferguson’s right hand as he set out on a road which was to be paved with gold and laden with trophy after trophy – but the Hibs legend missed out on the glory years as he quit Pittodrie to become boss of Cowdenbeath.

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Tom Taiwo challenges Hearts Jamie Walker at Easter Road in December. Picture: SNS

Hibs players want to win it for the fans

Sunday’s derby, so one argument goes, means more to Hearts than it does Hibs given the Easter Road outfit have the lure of a Scottish Cup final against Celtic to occupy their minds.

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Leigh Griffiths. Picture: Neil Hanna

Hibs’ Leigh Griffiths asks Wolves about future

Hibs striker Leigh Griffiths was heading for Molineux today hoping Wolves will be able to shed some light on his future.

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Pat Fenlon says Hibs face a grueling schedule. Picture: David Lamb

Pat Fenlon has Hibs selection headache

Pat Fenlon today admitted he’s had to rethink his Scottish Cup final blueprint after Hibs SPL clash with Kilmarnock at Rugby Park was abandoned.

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David Wotherspoon netted Hibs strike which dumped Scottish Cup holders Hearts out of the competition  the only derby this season not to end in a draw. Picture: SNS

Nick Colgan recalls Hibs derby run

Hibs stand just 90 minutes way from negotiating an entire season unbeaten in Edinburgh derbies, a feat the Easter Road club haven’t achieved for 12 years.

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Alex Harris and Danny Handling. Picture: David Lamb

Coaches revel in rise of Hibs youngsters

It seems at times as if young players come from nowhere. One minute they are known only to those die-hard fans who take the closest interest in their clubs’ youth teams, the next their names are on everyone’s lips.

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Ryan McGivern. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Hibs’ Ryan McGivern in fitness race

Hibs boss Pat Fenlon today admitted Northern Ireland defender Ryan McGivern is facing a race against time to be fit for Sunday’s fifth and final Edinburgh derby of the season.

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Spartans come storming back to destroy Hutchie

Spartans produced a stirring second-half performance to rout city rivals Hutchison Vale 5-0 and leapfrog their opponents in the Scottish Women’s Premier League table.

Fans look on as a spectator recieves medical attention. Picture: David Lamb

Hibs’ Kilmarnock match touched by tragedy

Hibs face a hectic end to their SPL season with three games in just six days – starting with Sunday’s derby against Hearts – following the abandonment of their third last match against Kilmarnock as medics battled to save the life of a Rugby Park fan who later died in hospital.

Michael Weir: More cup ties could invigorate Scottish season

Having watched a number of matches in the SPL this season, it would be fair to say the entertainment on show hasn’t been particularly forthcoming.

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Leigh Griffiths has been named the PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year. Picture: SNS

Leigh Griffiths to meet Wolves boss over future

Leigh Griffiths will meet with Wolves manager Dean Saunders next Thursday to see where his future lies.

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Leigh Griffiths at Easter Road. Picture: Neil Hanna

‘I’d happily stay at Hibs’, says Leigh Griffiths

LEIGH GRIFFITHS today revealed there would be “none more happy than me” if he was to stay at Hibs beyond the end of the season.

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Play for your futures, Pat Fenlon tells Hibs squad

HIBS manager Pat Fenlon has warned his out-of-contract players their Easter Road ­futures could hinge on what they do over the next few weeks.

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Hibs fans queue for tickets. Picture: Neil Hanna

Thousands snap up Hibs cup final tickets

Hibs have already sold almost half of their allocation of tickets for their William Hill Scottish Cup final against SPL champions Celtic, it was revealed today.

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Alex Harris trains. Picture: Phil wilkinson

Hibs training centre proving to be great bargain

There’s been a furious 
debate as to the merits of Hibs’ state-of-the-art training centre among some quarters of the Easter Road support, sparked by what has been perceived by some as a lack of young talent emerging from East Mains.

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Pat Fenlon. Picture: SNS

Hibs will turn to youth stars next term

PAT FENLON revealed Hibs are set to become more reliant on the club’s promising young talent next season, as the manager doesn’t anticipate a raft of new arrivals this summer.

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Leigh Griffiths has scored 27 goals already this term and he has four games left to reach 30. Picture: SNS

Hibs legend backs Leigh Griffiths to hit 30 goals

Leigh Griffiths may be desperate to become the first Hibs star in 40 years to score 30 goals in a season, but there’s no-one more anxious to see him achieve that record than Easter Road legend Jimmy O’Rourke who, along with Alan Gordon, was the last player in a Hibs shirt to hit that milestone.

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Leigh Griffiths has quit Twitter due to threats to his family. Picture: Robert Perry

Leigh Griffiths kicks Twitter after family targeted

HIBS star Leigh Griffiths has given up using Twitter because of the abuse he and his family have been receiving.

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Rob Jones celebrates. Picture: PA

Ex-Hibs star Rob Jones tells of late thriller

It was a fairytale even that great story teller Hans Christian
Andersen might have struggled to pen. Less than 20 seconds of the season remaining and former Hibs skipper Rob Jones’ dream of promotion to the 
English Championship looked certain to be dashed.

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Leigh Griffiths. Picture: SNS

Hibs’ Leigh Griffiths set for Scotland call-up

Hibs striker Leigh Griffiths is poised for a recall to the Scotland squad for the World Cup qualifying match against Croatia in June.

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Leigh Griffiths. Picture: Joey Kelly

Hibs denied win by defensive errors

Hibs fans are dreading the day when they have to say goodbye to Leigh Griffiths, but St Mirren boss Danny Lennon simply can’t wait to see the back of the Easter Road hitman.

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Michael Weir: Hibs need a few victories before Hampden final

Pat FENLON will be hoping his players can put a few wins on the board in the remaining three league matches of the season which can give the squad a much-needed lift ahead of the Scottish Cup final.

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Ross Caldwell celebrates after scoring. Picture: SNS

Goal fires up Ross Caldwell’s Hibs dream

Easter ROAD kid Ross 
Caldwell is aiming to make a late bid for Scottish Cup glory after claiming his first goal for Hibs.

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