On June 5 1990, the day after the merger bid was announced by the media, hundreds of fans gathered outside Easter Road demanding to know what on earth was going on.
It would be the first of numerous rallies over the next six weeks in a movement that would be branded Hands Off Hibs and ultimately lead to Mercer withdrawing his bid and the club being saved from almost certain oblivion.
We’ve had a deep dig through the archives at the Evening News that tell the story of that merger and how it threatened to tear a then 115-year-old Edinburgh institution.
We’ve had a deep dig through the archives at the Evening News that tell the story of that merger and how it threatened to tear a then 115-year-old Edinburgh institution.