Quote Originally Posted by Elite_Pie View Post
Have to agree with this. I've never seen such a passionate rendition of a club anthem to match this one when Hibs won the Scottish Cup in 2016.

It was an outpouring of 114 years of pure emotion. Hibs were 2-1 down with 10 minutes to go but won it. I think there was crowd trouble after the game and the video was shot 30 minutes after it finished, but it seemed not a single Hibs fan had left the ground. A bit like our win at Wembley, it made all the years of hurt worthwhile.

I first became aware of this after reading a few Irvine Welsh books. Some of them give a fantastic insight into football rivalry, often very violent. One of them even mentions footy messageboards!
I was in the crowd that day at Hampden. There were grown men and women breaking down and crying with the emotion. At last! Hibs fans entered the pitch after the final whistle to celebrate. Irvine Welsh used to write in the fanzine 'Mass Hibsteria' as I did latterly, occasionally.

Our parents and grandparents had never seen the like. The Proclaimers are died in the wool Hibees. They were born in Leith and came to return there to live. They were prominent in the 'Hands Off Hibs' campaign in 1990 when the Hearts chairman, Mercer, filed a hostile takeover bid. They stood by their team.

I am biased - I am a Hibs fan (with a healthy amount of love for Notts over many decades for family reasons) but I truly do believe that the love song that is Sunshine on Leith is the best of all football anthems. Beauty and kindness.

Just to give a bit of credit elsewhere, I love the way that Motherwell took on 'Twist and Shout'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbsI...nel=RobertPark