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Edinburgh Du alte Liebe…
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 …nur Du konntest mich aus Enschede holen. Die rote Tulpe pflücken und zur weißen Rose verzücken. Ja, es ist eine Ode. Eine Ode an die Freude. Die Freude, die ich verspüre, meinem Club ganz nahe zu sein. Noch dazu in schwierigen Zeiten…Was kann es Schöneres geben?
In September 1941 Smith played in the famous 8-1 League win over Rangers, scoring the last goal while running with his shin-guard in his hand. He told me a lovely story about that game many years later:
After the match I would walk home or catch a bus. This was in the era before fottballers were really |
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famous and quite normal practice. I remember that after that game I walked out of the ground and round and round to the nearest bus stop. There a fan was reading his sports paper and said to me: “It says here that Hibs beat the Rangers 8-1, what nonsense, it must be a mis-print.” When an eight is poorly printed it can look like a zero, so I knew what he meant, but I was able to say: “No, it isn’t a mis print it’s right enough, it was 8-1. I know, I was there!”
Gordon Smith
Born: Edinburgh, 25 May 1924
Position: Right-winger
Playing career: Hibernian, Hearts, Dundee
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05.11.2011 20:07 -
Paulo Coelho -
Hibernian FC Edinburgh
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März 26 
