Heart of Midlothian v Arbroath - SPFL Championship - 29.12.2020

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CONTENTS 5 Today’s Squads 13 Team For Me 15 Hearts On Tour

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18 A bit of History 23 Big Hearts 16

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CLUB DIRECTORY

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HEARTS MANAGER: ROBBIE NEILSON CRAIG GORDON 01 MICHAEL SMITH 02 AIDAN WHITE 03 JOHN SOUTTAR 04 PETER HARING 05 CHRISTOPHE BERRA 06 JAMIE WALKER 07 OLLY LEE 08 LIAM BOYCE 10 JORDAN ROBERTS 11 ROSS STEWART 13 STEVEN NAISMITH 14 CRAIG WIGHTON 15 ANDY HALLIDAY 16 ANDREW IRVING 19 STEPHEN KINGSLEY 21 LOIC DAMOUR 22 ZDENEK ZLAMAL 23 ELLIOTT FREAR 24 JAMIE BRANDON 25 CRAIG HALKETT 26 LEWIS MOORE 27 MIHAI POPESCU 28 JOSH GINNELLY 30 EUAN HENDERSON 31 SCOTT MCGILL 36

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ARBROATH MANAGER: DICK CAMPBELL 01 DEREK GASTON 02 JASON THOMSON 03 COLIN HAMILTON 04 RICKY LITTLE 05 THOMAS O’BRIEN 06 MARK WHATLEY 07 DAVID GOLD 08 MICHAEL MCKENNA 09 DALE HILSON 10 GAVIN SWANKIE 11 BOBBY LINN 12 SCOTT STEWART 14 KRIS DOOLAN 15 LUKE DONNELLY 16 MICHAEL RUTH 21 SCOTT GALLACHER 22 MIKO VIRTANEN 28 JAMES CRAIGEN 31 RAB DOUGLAS

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HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 5

FIRST TEAM RESULTS SEASON 2020-2021 DATE

OPPONENT

F A

Tue Oct 06

Inverness CT (LC)

1-0

LINE UP

Gordon

Brandon

White

Halkett

Irving

Popescu

Walker pen

Sat Oct 10

Cowdenbeath (LC)

1-0

Gordon

Brandon

White

Halkett

McGill

Popescu

Roberts

Tue Oct 13

Raith Rovers (LC)

3-1

Stewart

Brandon

White

Haring

McGill

Kingsley

Moore

Fri Oct 16

Dundee

6-2

Gordon

M Smith

Kingsley 2

Halkett

Irving

Popescu

Ginnelly

Fri Oct 23

Arbroath

1-0

Gordon

M Smith

Kingsley

Halkett

Halliday

Popescu

Ginnelly

Sat Oct 31

Hibs (SFA 19-20 SF)

2-1e

Gordon

M Smith

Kingsley

Halkett

Halliday

Popescu

Wighton Halliday

Sat Nov 07

Inverness CT

2-1

Gordon

M Smith

Kingsley

Halkett

Haring

Popescu

Tue Nov 10

East Fife (LC)

3-2

Stewart

Brandon

White

Popescu

Irving

Berra

McGill

Sat Nov 21

Dunfermline Ath

1-2

Gordon

M Smith

Kingsley

Halkett

Halliday

Popescu

Wighton Halliday

Tues Nov 24

Alloa Athletic

3-0

Gordon

M Smith

Kingsley

Halkett

Haring

Berra

Sat Nov 28

Alloa Athletic (LC 2)

0-1e

Gordon

M Smith

Kingsley

Haring

Popescu

Berra

Halliday

Sat Dec 05

Greenock Morton

2-0

Gordon

M Smith

Kingsley

Halkett

Irving

Berra

Halliday

6-1

Gordon

M Smith

Kingsley

Halkett

Irving

Berra

WALKER

Sat Dec 12

Queen of the South (H)

Sun Dec 20

Celtic (SFA 19-20 F)

Sat Dec 26

Ayr United (H)

Tue Dec 29

Arbroath (H)

Sat Dec 02

Dundee (A)

Tue Jan 12

Dunfermline (H)

Sat Jan 16

Alloa (A)

Sat Jan 23

Raith (H)

Sat Feb 06

Ayr (A)

Sat Feb 13

Queen of the South (A)

Sat Feb 20

Morton (H)

Sat Feb 27

Inverness (A)

Sat Mar 06

Dundee (H)

Sat Mar 13

Ayr (H)

Sat Mar 20

Arbroath (A)

Sat Mar 27

Queen of the South (H)

Sat Apr 03

Dunfermline (A)

Sat April 10

Alloa (H)

Sat Apr 17

Morton (A)

Sat Apr 24

Inverness (H)

Fri Apr 30

Raith (A)

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The use of any form of pyrotechnics is strictly prohibited. We thank you for your co-operation.

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SUBSTITUTES

Lee Lee

Wighton Wighton

Naismith Naismith

Ginnelly Ginnelly

Stewart Stewart

Haring Haring

Roberts Roberts

Halliday Halliday

Kingsley Kingsley

FrearFrear

Henderson Henderson

Lee Lee

Walker Walker

Naismith Naismith

Ginnelly Ginnelly

Zlamal Zlamal

Haring Haring

Wighton Wighton

Cochrane Cochrane

Moore Moore

FrearFrear

Henderson Henderson

Cochrane Wighton Wighton 3-2p Henderson Henderson Cochrane 3-2p

FrearFrear

Gordon Gordon

Walker Walker

Lee Lee

Roberts Roberts

Halkett Halkett

Popescu Popescu

Ginnelly Ginnelly

Lee Lee

Boyce pen Boyce pen

Walker Walker

Roberts Roberts

Stewart Stewart

White White

Haring Haring

Naismith Naismith

Wighton Wighton

Halliday Halliday

FrearFrear

Lee Lee

Boyce Boyce

Walker Walker

FrearFrear

Stewart Stewart

White White

Haring Haring

Naismith Naismith

Wighton Wighton

Irving Irving

Brandon Brandon

Lee Lee

Boyce pen Boyce pen

Walker Walker

Roberts Roberts

Stewart Stewart

White White

Haring Haring

Naismith Naismith

Irving Irving

Henderson Henderson

Brandon Brandon

Lee Lee

Wighton Wighton

Boyce Boyce

Naismith Naismith

Stewart Stewart

White White

Berra Berra

Irving Irving

FrearFrear

Brandon Brandon

Henderson Henderson

Lee Lee 2 2

Wighton Wighton

Henderson Henderson

FrearFrear

Zlamal Zlamal

Naismith Naismith

Kingsley Kingsley

Moore Moore

Logan Logan

Darge Darge

Denholm Denholm

Lee Lee

Boyce Boyce

Naismith Naismith

FrearFrear

Stewart Stewart

White White

Berra Berra

Walker Walker

Roberts Roberts

Irving Irving

Brandon Brandon

Walker Walker

Boyce Boyce

Naismith Naismith

Roberts Roberts

Stewart Stewart

White White

Lee Lee

Wighton Wighton

Pospecu Pospecu

Henderson Henderson

McGill McGill

Lee Lee

Boyce Boyce

Walker Walker

White White

Stewart Stewart

Roberts Roberts

Naismith Naismith

Wighton Wighton

Irving Irving

Henderson Henderson

McGill McGill

Lee Lee

Wighton Wighton

Stewart Stewart

White White

Haring Haring

Boyce Boyce

Roberts Roberts

Popescu Popescu

Henderson Henderson

Stewart Stewart

Haring Haring

Wighton Wighton

Halliday Halliday

FREAR FREAR

Popescu Popescu

GINNELLY GINNELLY

Walker Naismith Walker 2 2 Naismith

BOYCE NAISMITH BOYCE 2 2 NAISMITH

Lee Lee

KEY:

League (Unless Stated)

1st Sub

White White

2nd Sub

3rd Sub

4th Sub

5th Sub

Goalscorer in BOLD

Home games in red

* won on pens

e extra time

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HEARTS U18S AIDAN DENHOLM

ARRON DARGE

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CAMMY LOGAN

CONNOR SMITH

HARRIS SPRATT

Home: John & Mairie Simm Away: Preacher’s Patisserie Third: Michael Logan & Emma Tulloch

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Home: A.W. Gray

HARRY GORDON

HARRY STONE

JAY CHARLESTON KING

Home: Big Hearts Community Trust

Home: Tollcross Hearts Supporters Club Away: Ken & Gavin McLeish

CALLUM FLATMAN

ROBBIE NEILSON

GORDON FORREST

LEE MCCULLOCH

PAUL GALLACHER

MIKE WILLIAMS

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MAKENZIE KIRK

MICHAEL AITKEN

RYAN SCHIAVONE

Home: Niamh Morrison Away: Colin Marshall and Steven Fraser

SCOTT MCGILL Home: Heart of Midlothian Shareholders Association Away: harmonyemployment. com Third: Neil Fyall & Liam Baillie

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HEARTS WOMEN SQUAD CHARLOTTE PARKER-SMITH

CLAIRE DELWORTH Home: Foundation of Hearts Away: Anne Ferguson & Summer Ferguson Boots: Lorraine Hartley

CLARE WILLIAMSON

COURTNEY WHYTE

Home: Jambos Kickback Away: Heart of Midlothian Shareholders Association

GEORGIA HUNTER

JENNY SMITH Home: Heart of Midlothian Shareholders Association

JUDITH SHEPHERD

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PAIGE MCALLISTER

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The Team for Me –

The Lambeau Jambo

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They say you can choose your friends, but not your family. We cannot control where we were born or when. We have no power to select our mothers or fathers, our hospitals or houses, our countries or countenance. We are at the mercy of chance… or a higher power, should you believe in such things.

I have lived most of my life in Green Bay, Wisconsin — Titletown, as many American sports fans call it. Around here, we play REAL football… you know, the kind where you use your hands to throw a leathery lemon at someone called a “tight end”. The city is home to the 13-time world champion Green Bay Packers. (You may scoff at the arrogance required to use the term, since we do not play a team from any other league in the world, but send a group of 53 jobbers to square off against us and see how far you get.)

My father is a Packers fan. His father was a Packers fan. My aunts and uncles, cousins, friends, coworkers, neighbors, clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right — virtually everyone in the city bleeds green and gold. A century of local culture surrounds me as well. We celebrate the bratwurst, the polka, the frozen December temperatures. We wear yellow foam hats to games and call ourselves “Cheeseheads”. We name our streets after title-winning coaches: Lombardi, Holmgren, McCarthy. We let strangers park their cars, grill meat and drink beer on our front lawns on Sundays. We snicker at fans of our rival Chicago Bears, but proudly walk into Lambeau Field with them side by side. The church and school I attended in my youth is a block from the stadium. My classmates and I would play “two-hand touch” in the parking lot at recess for nine years, almost quite literally in the shadows of that sainted ground.

I did not choose to be born into this environment, but I feel blessed that I was. I live and breathe with every pass and catch, every first down and touchdown, every deep playoff run and deep fried curd. Most people love their families, but oftentimes, they are the ones to drive us to the madhouse the most quickly. The players on the team, the coaches and my fellow Packers fans fit that bill to the letter. But you cannot deny their passion, their loyalty, their camaraderie. There is a waitlist for season tickets that my children’s grandchildren will be lucky to summit. Green Bay and her people are my family — the smallest city in the league with the biggest (if cholesterol-encrusted) heart.

Pardon the curse word, but I was no fan of soccer until the World Cup in 2006. Despite the Americans’ early exit, I would remain suspiciously fascinated for the rest of the tournament. The names Crespo, Zidane, van Persie, Buffon and Podolski meant nothing at the time, but at least I understood the imperative task ahead of me: to find a club for myself. As with many of my countrymen in those days, it was fashionable to choose one of the trademark English clubs. Even to the present, I can count Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Spurs fans among my friends. But this did not interest me — to be guaranteed a top-6 finish every season, to spend millions upon millions of pounds on players, to have adoring but entitled supporters worldwide. (Trust me, I already know what this is like. I am a Packers fan after all.) My longest flirtations seemed to be with “lesser” clubs down south: West Ham, Wolves, Forest, Norwich. They were about the size I was looking for; however, my as-yet-undefined satisfaction still evaded me.

That is, until I looked over the touch line into Scotland in 2008. The breadth of my knowledge about your culture stretched only as far as the

distance that a set of bagpipes could be heard. My familiarity with your great statesmen could be summarily found in the selected works of Mike Myers, Mel Gibson and a janitor on The Simpsons. If you had said the words “old” and “firm” to me, I might have thought someone had forgotten leftovers in the fridge for a couple weeks. While performing some cursory research, I discovered that the same two clubs had won the title for 22 straight seasons. At that moment, I knew — without a curried haggisscented doubt — that those two clubs could get right into the Irish Sea. Thus, my attention was diverted over to the capital, where I saw that beautiful maroon (we call it a) “jersey”. Two and only two facts sold me on Hearts: 1) that they had not won a title since 1960 and 2) that since then the closest they had come was in my birth year, 1986. No, I will not say his name, but you the reader are thinking it anyway. One might call me a glutton for punishment, but I felt the club was the optimal size, with the ideal history and the specific “big city/small town” atmosphere that I was seeking.

If there was ever any reluctance for me to support Hearts, the administration battle squashed it. The way the fans came together to build up the Foundation, the way that we would NOT let our beloved team die, the limbs at Tynecastle after Billy King’s goal in the derby — the mortal envelope that contained my football fate was sealed that season. The Packers are the only professional franchise in the five major American sports to be owned by the fans. Now that both of my “football” teams share this attribute, or will shortly, my choice seems only the more appropriate.

Despite my fanhood for twelve years, I do ask for your patience. I am still gradually gleaning from the history of this great club. I am trying to learn the glorious names that every Hearts fan should know: Speedie, McCrae and Battles — Bauld, Conn and Wardhaugh — Anderson, Ford and Cruickshank — Mackay, Smith and Colquhoun — McPherson, Locke and Flögel — Pressley, Hartley and Brellier — naturally Robertson and Skácel — and I bought a Lithuanian phrase book just in case.

The proverb at the beginning of this piece is incorrect. Gorgie is now my family too. The family that I chose. I was born neither in Scotland, nor into the lifestyle of the average supporter. I know little of your customs or your habits. I have never visited Edinburgh or taken a glimpse at the famous pitch. I have never eaten a chippy with brown sauce. But some day, your adopted cousin shall arrive at your local pub to buy you a pint before a match. We shall march into the Wheatfield Stand as you teach me every chant you can remember. And we shall watch our treasured eleven sneak past a markedly inferior side by a goal to nil in the 86th minute. To you, it would be just another matchday. To me, an adulthood’s worth of missed holidays, birthdays and reunions rolled into one afternoon. Thank you to those who have welcomed me thus far. I look forward to meeting and laughing with the rest of you when I one day make the journey across the Atlantic.

This is my family. This is my story. This is my song.

Forever the Heart of Midlothian — forever the team for me…

Yours in maroon and memories, Kaleb H. Pier

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Hearts

On Tour The 1950’s Tours

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hroughout the most successful decade in the Club’s history, manager Tommy Walker forged close bonds between his talented players by taking them on six post-season tours to destinations as far apart as the USA, South Africa and Australia. This season, I’m going to take a look at the memorabilia associated with Hearts’ tours of the 1950’s.

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Everywhere that Hearts went, the tourists were inundated with invitations to see the sights and, more so, to attend functions in their honour. Our first time this time is an excellent invitation owned by fellow collector Martin Mackay. It’s from the Lord Mayor of Hobart, the capital of Tasmania and carries the state crest on the invitation. As you can see from the image, Jimmy Wardhaugh was the recipient of the invitation to morning tea at 11.30 on 2 June 1959. The whole team would have been invited but not everyone would have kept these little momentoes. Jimmy Wardhaugh, as we’ll see in due course, was a hoarder of memorabilia.

From Hobart, Hearts flew west to Adelaide to face two matches in South Australia. Strangely, having been given such a decent game in Victoria, Hearts agreed to play an extra game against the Victorian state side. Despite this being something of a coup for Victoria who perhaps felt that they had got an extra game at the expense of New South Wales who had cancelled their match against Hearts on 27 May, it meant Hearts playing against Australia in Adelaide on 6 June, travelling 500 miles to Melbourne to play against Victoria the following day before heading back to Adelaide to face South Australia on 10 June. Bobby Rankin who had been unlucky with injury during the tour suffered from toothache on the flight from Hobart and had to have a tooth removed. It wasn’t to be his last setback of the tour either.

Indeed, Hearts were racking up injuries as the tour programme took its toll on the players. In the match against Australia on 6 June, the heat took its toll as well with Jimmy Wardhaugh writing in the Evening News that the players “ran around in the first half with their tongues hanging out”. It was the usual story with the local players standing up well to the Hearts onslaught in the first half before running out of steam in the second. In this game, Jimmy Wardhaugh scored twice before the interval to give Hearts a 2-0 lead before suffering an injury which was thought to be a broken collarbone but turned out just to be strained ligaments in his chest.

Bobby Blackwood also suffered knee ligament trouble in the match but it was Australia who finished the game with ten men, Pagani having to leave the field as a result of an injury.

George Thomson slotted a penalty in the second half and there were further goals for Ian Crawford who got a brace and Alex Young who made the final score 6-0 to the visitors.

A single programme was produced for the two matches on 6 and 10 June in Adelaide.

Produced by the South Australian Soccer Football Association, it weighed in at a substantial forty pages. The cover is a striking orange colour showing a goalkeeper diving to make a save. The heading “The Heart of Midlothian Tour 1959” and the two match venues are picked out in green.

The President of the Association welcomed Hearts and focused on the example which the touring team might set for youngsters in Adelaide. He wrote that “Among the many thousands watching you today will be the schoolboys of South Australia. It is our earnest hope that the example of sportsmanship and skill which you give today will have a lasting influence in their young lives”.

The pen pictures of the Hearts players are spread over eight pages; they’re the same biographies which appeared in the programme for the matches in Melbourne. Gordon Marshall was “strongly built, he has a keen eye and a spring like a cat for the high balls”. John Cumming was “a remarkable dribbler and his anticipation is quite uncanny at times”. What is different about this programme is that it is late enough in the tour to have some great action pictures from matches earlier in the tour. One shows Jimmy Wardhaugh heading the ball as Alex Young is challenged by an Australian player.

On page 17, the programme editor has his say. He writes that “Last Saturday we saw the famous Hearts in operation and there is no doubt about it, this is a great soccer team. What makes them such a great team? I would say firstly ‘esprit de corps’. They have a wonderful club spirit and a youthful zest for the game of soccer. This spirit is manifest throughout the whole party – directors, manager, trainer and players. They should be called more aptly ‘The Young at Hearts’”. The centre pages have the team lines for the South Australia v Hearts match though notably, not the full international match.

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There are then pen pictures of the Australian side and then the South Australian team. Sixteen players are listed for the latter team; five born in England, five in Hungary, four in Hungary, one in Scotland and only one born in Australia. That cosmopolitan background is also reflected in the brief histories of the South Australian clubs which have names like Budapest, Croatia, Polonia, Enfield and, happily, Edinburgh which was formed in 1957 and had won three trophies in its first two years of existence.

The programme which cost just 1/- was an excellent souvenir of the tour for South Australians.

Finally this time, the club’s archive has a wonderful banner presented to it by the South Australian Association. Marking the fact that the day of the Australia match in Adelaide was the fifteenth anniversary of D-Day, the pennant is a vivid maroon with white lettering and gold braid.

Gary Cowen is a member of Hearts heritage group and is currently writing a book about the Hearts post-season tours

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A FINE CATCH FROM ARBROATH

By David Speed The Royal Burgh of Arbroath punches above its weight at football and its time-honoured team, “The Red Lichties,” has made a big impact on Hearts’ history.

With apologies to those Arbroathians who came to Hearts by way of other clubs, seven significant players have been recruited directly from Gayfield. From that group, three captains have emerged who have helped Hearts to become Champions of Scotland and to also win the Scottish Cup. Born in 1875, WILLIE MAXWELL grew-up in Victoria Street, Arbroath and played junior football for Ardenlea, before heading to Gayfield in 1893. This splendid dribbler and passer of the ball, signed for Hearts in August 1894 and although mainly a reserve, he played one game in Hearts’ Championship-winning season of 1894-95. Maxwell scored in a 4-3 win over St.Bernards, but the Committee preferred the bustling style of Willie Michael to the Arbroath craftsman and, later that season, the tall and slim attacker joined Dundee.

Both the Scottish clubs slipped-up and Maxwell moved to Stoke (now Stoke City) in the summer of 1895 and during a fine career in the Potteries, he was capped for Scotland against England in April 1898. Following a serious knee injury he became a bit of a nomad and played for Third Lanark, Sunderland, Millwall Athletic and then Bristol City. In 1909, Willie moved to Belgium and coached Leopold, Daring, Mechelen, Cercle Bruges and most notably, the Belgian International team. He was also an excellent cricketer reaching County level at Staffordshire and representing Belgium.

DAVID AXFORD was born in 1882 at Smithy Croft in Arbroath and he joined his local club in April 1900, after experience with Ardenlea and Dauntless Juniors.

The young centre forward was signed by Hearts in May 1903, but there was difficulty in obtaining a suitable day-job and so, in May 1904, David joined Portsmouth.

No fee was received, because his new club operated in

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the Southern League and there was no transfer agreement with Scottish teams. In April 1905, David came back to Hearts, but had a poor season due to a cartilage operation. He was also a restless soul and in July 1906, the 24-year old shoemaker went off to the USA. David returned in December 1906 and he scored Hearts’ winning goal in the Scottish Cup Semi-Final against Queens Park.

However, David and his colleagues lost by 3-0 against Celtic in the Final. He signed for Raith Rovers in June 1907 and then in May 1910, David headed off to Canada.

The strapping striker came home before the Great War to work in Arbroath’s Westburn Foundry and in May 1928, his life took a real change of direction. David Axford of Helen Street, Arbroath was appointed Town Missionary, taking on social and religious work in his native town with great success.

Born in 1913, at Main Street, Thornton, BOBBY CHRISTIE appeared for Hearts, on loan from Arbroath, during the Second World War. He made 58 appearances over three seasons after the Gayfield side closed down in May 1940, due to the impact of hostilities. The left-winger had stepped-up from the junior side, Lochgelly Albert, to Partick Thistle in 1935 and joined Arbroath, then a First Division team, in June 1937. Bobby was frequently described as the “deadliest winger in Scotland” but the War came as he hit the peak of his career. Having joined the RAF, Bobby was stationed at Pitreavie Castle, before heading to the Middle East.

He joined Hearts on loan in February 1941 and was popular, due to his crossing ability and accurate free kicks and corners. That season, Bobby helped Hearts to reach the Southern League Cup Final, but the maroons went down to Rangers at Hampden Park after a Replay. He left Hearts in May 1943 and played a few games for Dunfermline Athletic and East Fife prior to going overseas. After the War, Bobby returned to Arbroath and then signed for Forfar Athletic in October 1946 and Stenhousemuir in September 1947.

JIMMY MILNE was born at Sidney Street, Arbroath in 1929 and was recruited by “The Red Lichties” in August 1949 from the junior side, Brechin Victoria.

The strapping farm worker was surprisingly released in April 1950 and after a trial period, Jimmy signed for Hearts in September that year.

With splendid positioning and distribution, the dominating centre-half covered Bobby Dougan and Freddie Glidden until establishing his place in the team during Hearts’ Championship-winning season, 1957-58.

The sure-footed defender succeeded Davie Mackay as captain and he led the team to another Championship success in 1959-60. Jimmy was subsequently released in April 1961, but not before playing his 250th game for Hearts and appearing in the European Cup against the eventual winners, Benfica. He then played for Falkirk and Forfar Athletic before hanging up his boots and working for the Post Office in Arbroath. Jimmy Milne was proud to later become a director of Arbroath Football Club.

Born in 1948 in Dundee, BRIAN WILSON was a six-foot tall goalkeeper who played for Dundee East End Juveniles and the junior clubs, Dundee North End and Arbroath Victoria before signing for “The Red Lichties” in November 1970. Brian helped Arbroath to promotion from the old Second Division and had three seasons at the elite level before his club suffered relegation in 1974-75. Brian signed for Hearts in August 1976 and played 19 games for the Edinburgh maroons, including two in the Cup-Winners’ Cup against Hamburg and in the League Cup Semi-Final against Celtic.

Unfortunately, Hearts were relegated that season and Brian was a casualty, being released in April 1977. He signed for Nairn County in August that year, but travel was too difficult and Brian joined Stenhousemuir in September 1977. He played just over 100 games for the Division Two side before moving to Dundee Violet Juniors on 1 July 1980.

ANDY WEBSTER was born in April 1982 at Ninewells Hospital, but his family home was at Sycamore Park in Arbroath. The 6’1” centre-half was solid and assured, and started with Arbroath in September 1999. He helped start a successful Second Division promotion campaign and then in March 2001, Andy joined Hearts for an initial fee of £67,500. He formed a fine defensive partnership with Steven Pressley and this was the key to Hearts finishing runners-up in the SPL in 2005-06. Andy also helped the club to appear regularly in Europe and during 2002-2003 he started to receive

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International recognition. Indeed, before he left Hearts for Wigan Athletic in September 2006, Andy had made the bulk of his 28 appearances for Scotland.

The fearless defender moved to Rangers in January 2007, but suffered a severe knee injury and went on loan to Bristol City. Andy was also on loan to Dundee United where he captained the team to victory in the Scottish Cup Final. After being released by Rangers, he made a welcome return to Hearts in February 2011 and he emerged as a key-man in 2011-12. Andy was one of that season’s Scottish Cup winning heroes and was recalled to the Scotland side in May 2012. He was a casualty of administration and left in 2013 for Coventry City and St.Mirren.

In January 1875, ALBERT BUICK was born and raised at Brechin Road, Arbroath and undoubtedly, he is one of the town’s most famous sons. Albert played juvenile football for Roselea and stepped-up to the junior grade with Arbroath Rovers, before being recruited by “The Red Lichties” in the summer of 1893. He joined Hearts in July 1896 after responding to the club’s newspaper advert seeking new players. He went on to become very popular, being affectionately known as “Spider”, due to his long gangly arms and short (5’7’’) frame. Albert may have looked frail, but he was actually quick and fearless, and full of energy. He could also read the game brilliantly and was an inspirational captain of Hearts.

In Edinburgh, Albert completed his apprenticeship as an iron moulder and then turned his full attention to football. “Spider” made two League appearances as Hearts won the Scottish Championship in 1896-97, but it was 1900 before he became fully established. The Arbroathian was then one of the Tynecastle heroes when Celtic was defeated 4-3 in the 1901 Scottish Cup Final. He was made captain in May 1902 and led the team to the Scottish Cup Final in 1903, only to be defeated by Rangers after three matches.

Albert was injured and did not play in the Second Replay. This might well have cost Hearts the Cup. In March 1902, he played for Scotland against Ireland and Wales, and Albert skippered the team against the Irish. He was also capped by the Scottish League in 1903, at which time Hearts refused to sell him to Middlesbrough. This proved to be a mistake and following a dispute over a benefit, in May 1903, Albert was lured to England.

No fee could be claimed because he signed for the Southern League side, Portsmouth, whom he served for eight years. This was an enormous blow to Hearts and the Dundee Evening Telegraph recorded in August 1903 that the club had lost, “as hard working a half-back as ever took part in a match.”

Albert had scored 17 goals in almost 220 games for Hearts and although he persuaded other players to join him down south, “Spider” remained a popular visitor to Edinburgh. By 1911, he was a publican in Portsmouth and it was here that he developed an interest in pigeon racing. He was extremely successful in his new sport, particularly after Albert returned to Arbroath at the start of the Great War to take over his father’s waste and metal business.

On 4 April 1924, Albert joined the Arbroath FC Committee and he was involved in the major project to build “Greater Gayfield” in 1925. In December 1936, he was appointed chief scout in the Angus area. His middle name was Thoroughgood which he certainly was.

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