Star of the 70s: No 11, Alan Gordon
Hibs football player Alan Gordon at Easter Road in January 1972.
ALAN Gordon, believed to be the only player to play for all four Edinburgh and Dundee clubs, is best remembered as a free-scoring forward with Hibs between the beginning of 1972 and the end of 1974, when he scored 83 goals in 153 games.
A lean figure who was good on the ground, but even better in the air, he started off at Hearts and moved to Dundee United in 1968-69. But the best spell of his career came at Easter Road, where the highlight was a total of 42 goals in 1972-73, two of which came in the famous 7-0 hammering of Hearts. Gordon also picked up League Cup and Drybrough Cup winners’ medals that season.
The arrival of Joe Harper in a big-money move from Everton spelled the beginning of the end for Gordon, who moved to Dundee for 18 months then retired from the game to concentrate of his successful chartered accountants business in Leith.
He died in February 2010 at the age of 65.
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