Scottish Cup
Scottish Cup: Harris can be the key for Hibs victory
TEAM selection, head-to-heads and tactics go through a football manager’s head every week but never are these more important than on Cup final day and both Pat Fenlon and Neil Lennon have a number of huge decisions to make.
Scottish Cup: Kids worry Smith is bogey man for Hibs
HIBERNIAN in the Scottish Cup final is seriously serious stuff for the family of the club’s former defender Gary Smith.
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Leigh Griffiths now has temperament to match talent
GIVEN the season he has enjoyed, the idea of Leigh Griffiths being verbally slaughtered at half-time of the Scottish Cup semi-final might seem harsh; the fact that he sat there and took it, astonishing.
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Scottish Cup final: McPake confident in players
LAST season, the enforced omission of James McPake from the Hibs line-up was always the cause of some consternation.
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Aidan Smith: Perseverance of long-suffering Hibby
THE other night – four sleeps to Hampden – my son was at his football training where, instead of the usual strips-of-many-nations, all the Hibbies were in full kit.
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Scottish Cup final: Commons on importance of family
ONE player, or one issue, can often dominate a cup final build-up.
1 commentScottish Cup final: Griffiths fit to play for Hibs
HIBERNIAN moved to calm fears among their supporters yesterday after suggestions that striker Leigh Griffiths was a doubt for today’s William Hill Scottish Cup final.
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Edinburgh Airport tribute to Scottish Cup final
GREEN light is being shone on Edinburgh Airport’s control tower to celebrate today’s Scottish Cup Final between Hibernian and Celtic.
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Scottish Cup final: Thomson on mystery leg injury
HE SPOKE about Hibs, of course he did. Hibs and Celtic and his old mate Scott Brown and the excitement he feels ahead of today at Hampden.
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Scottish Cup: Fenlon’s priority is Hibs performance
Hibs boss Pat Fenlon has revealed he has just one wish for tomorrow’s Scottish Cup final – that his Easter Road side simply do themselves justice.
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Hibee history: Can this year be lucky number 13?
As Easter Road men bid for Scottish Cup glory against Celtic tomorrow, Scott Thomson looks back at the club’s 12 previous final appearances
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Scottish Cup: Hibs are gonna party like it’s 1902!
THE match laboured under an air of gloom, an all-green clash marred by tragedy a week earlier and a game which one witness would go on to describe as “the poorest final on record, for the most part dull and dreary”.
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Scottish Cup: Joe Harper wants Griffiths hat-trick
JOE Harper would love to see Leigh Griffiths match his Hampden heroics for Hibs – but finish on the winning side.
6 commentsScottish Cup: Fenlon happy with extra officials
Pat FENLON has urged his players to ignore the fact two extra officials will be watching their every move at Hampden tomorrow, telling them: “Play your own game.”
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Scottish Cup: James McPake admitted injury defeat
Pat Fenlon today explained devastated Hibs skipper James McPake knew himself he had lost his battle against injury and the chance to lead the Easter Road side out at Hampden for the second year in succession.
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Scottish Cup: Forster ‘can handle Hampden heat’
Just a year after finishing a loan stint with Third Division Berwick Rangers, rookie defender Jordon Forster is primed to carry Hibs’ hopes on his young shoulders in tomorrow’s Scottish Cup final.
Scottish Cup: ‘Hibs are real deal’ - Stevenson
Twelve months on and the hurt is still raw, barely a day having passed without Lewis Stevenson and his team-mates being reminded of the humiliation inflicted on them by arch-rivals Hearts.
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Rumour Mill: Charles Green| Hibs | Celtic | SFA
In today’s rumour mill: Green cleared of links to Whyte; SFA boss pockets a pay rise; Hibs rocked by McPake and Griffiths injury scares; Stuart McCall has second thoughts about Sheffield United move; plus the rest of the Scottish football news and gossip.
335 commentsMcArthur Scottish Cup clean sheets still not enough
ALTHOUGH he is most commonly associated with Hibernian, Jim McArthur has at least tasted some Scottish Cup glory, when looking on from the Hampden terraces as Dunfermline, his boyhood favourites, lifted the trophy by beating Hearts in 1968.
Scottish Cup final: Referee Collum hails event
IF YOU have ever wondered what on earth keeps referees going, Willie Collum has a simple answer: days like tomorrow.
Glenn Gibbons: Reasons to fear for both supporters
Hibernian fans of a certain age are likely to tremble at the recollection of previous, immeasurably better equipped Easter Road sides than the present who have tried and failed to win Scottish Cup finals.
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Scottish Cup final: ‘Brutal’ lesson for Forrest
WHEN James Forrest helped Celtic’s under-19 side win their version of the domestic double three years ago, he had high hopes he and his team-mates could graduate together into the senior ranks at the club.
Beuzelin relishes duel between Thomson and Brown
Guillaume Beuzelin was once the ‘gem’ to adorn a Tony Mowbray-led Hibernian team sprinkled with rough diamonds.
Scottish Cup final: Wotherspoon Hibs squad hopes
DAVID Wotherspoon set Hibs on their way in this season’s Scottish Cup with the goal that exacted a measure of revenge on bitter rivals Hearts for last season’s final misery.
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Simon Pia: Street of dreams beckons yet again
PROSPECTHILL Road has been a veritable Via Dolorosa for Hibs fans through the ages.
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Scottish Cup: Fenlon and Lennon Hampden glory bid
THIS time, they will turn up. This time, they will compete. This time, they will do themselves justice – and justice may just be enough.
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Scottish Cup final: County loss had Mjallby fretting
JOHAN Mjallby was convinced a Scottish Cup shocker had cost him his Celtic dream job.
Scottish Cup: Harris hopes for more Hampden memories
GIVEN the disastrous events of 12 months ago, many connected with Hibs would surely be forgiven for fearing another traumatic experience when they return to Hampden for tomorrow’s Scottish Cup final with Celtic.
Scottish Cup final: McPake ruled out with injury
HIBERNIAN captain James McPake has been ruled out of tomorrow’s Scottish Cup final with a back injury – but will be invited to go up to lift the trophy should his team defeat Celtic.
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Scottish Cup final: Past a heavy burden for Hibs
WHEN considering Hibernian’s chances in the Scottish Cup final tomorrow, it is impossible not to look to the past, and wonder whether the code can be broken.
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Scottish Cup final: History beckons for Lennon
HISTORY beckons for Neil Lennon at Hampden tomorrow. If his Celtic team lift the Scottish Cup, he will become only the third man ever to win the domestic double in Scotland as both a player and manager for the same club.
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Scottish Cup: Griffiths would trade awards for win
Leigh Griffiths has been out on the town more times than his manager would normally like in recent days, but his recent excursions have been with Pat Fenlon’s blessing.
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Scottish Cup final Hibs v Celtic: kick-off time, TV, injuries, key players
Hibs will be looking to make amends for the defeat in last season’s final at the hands of city rivals Hearts, while Celtic are keen to complete the league and cup double after a gruelling season that saw them make the last 16 of the Champions League.
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Neil Lennon ban will not affect Scottish Cup final
NEIL Lennon has expressed his delight at being able to lead
Celtic out in the William Hill Scottish Cup final after escaping an immediate touchline ban.
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Scottish Cup classics: McNamara thwarts Hibernian
OF ALL the attributes which earned him the respect and admiration of team-mates and opponents alike during an outstanding playing career, goalscoring was not a knack with which Jackie McNamara was readily associated.
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Scottish Cup: Mikael Lustig revels in first final
SURPRISINGLY for a firmly established international footballer, Mikael Lustig will take part in the first cup final of his senior career this weekend.
2 commentsScottish Cup: Team effort required, says Latapy
RUSSELL Latapy believes a Hibernian triumph in this weekend’s William Hill Scottish Cup final would be down to a team effort rather than one individual.
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Scottish Cup: John Collins praises Leigh Griffiths
HOW far Leigh Griffiths goes in football will be determined only by his own mindset and fitness, according to John Collins.
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Scottish Cup classics: Steven Tweed’s 1995 regrets
THE Hibernian captain was struggling to be fit on time, and Celtic were desperate to shrug off a reputation for under-performing in big knockout games.
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Scottish Cup: Scott Brown wants more Hibs misery
TWELVE months ago, Scott Brown suffered along with the Hibs support at Hampden as they experienced the trauma of their most mortifying derby defeat of all time.
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Scottish Cup: James McPake hails fans’ faith
JAMES McPake took a look at the travelling support who had made their way to Rugby Park on a Sunday two months ago and wondered just what he and his team-mates had done to earn their backing.
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Scottish Cup: No fitness issues for James McPake
JAMES McPake has played down fears over his fitness and insisted he is ready to lead Hibernian out at Hampden on Sunday for the William Hill Scottish Cup final.
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Anthony Stokes: Celtic must win the double
THE league title is in the bag: a significant achievement but a predictable one.
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Scottish Cup final 1972: Unlucky Hibs beaten 6-1
The goalie in the second-greatest Hibernian team never to win the Scottish Cup is not keeping too well and the other day had to go into hospital.
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Scottish Cup final: Paul Hanlon seeks atonement
AS an 11-year-old boy, Paul Hanlon went to Hampden Park to watch the Scottish Cup Final, in which his beloved Hibs lost 3-0 to a Henrik Larsson-inspired Celtic.
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Scottish Cup final: Pat Fenlon knows final team
HIBERNIAN manager Pat Fenlon has revealed he knows the team he wants to send out in Sunday’s Scottish Cup final – and insists it will be a line-up to “take on” Celtic.
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Scottish Cup classics: Eddie May recalls thriller
IT was, they said, the finest cup tie seen at Easter Road since the last meeting between the sides, all of five months earlier.
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Hibernian v Celtic: Tom Taiwo’s cup final tale
Speaking at the start of the countdown to this Sunday’s Scottish Cup final between Hibernian and Celtic, words such as “retribution” spilled from Tom Taiwo’s lips yesterday.
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