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t’s been a busy few days for the brothers McGinn …

First ex Hibs favourite John McGinn, now a top performer earning glowing reviews with Aston Villa in the English Premier League, led Scotland out in a Nations League match away to Slovakia. The honour of skippering the national team followed hard on the heels of Scotland’s epic play off win over Serbia to secure Scotland’s participation in the Euros – a game in which the youngest McGinn brother played his now customary starring, energetic role. And then further history was made when Stephen McGinn came on as a substitute in our league cup win over Dundee at the weekend. Joining his brother Paul, who had started the game, the McGinns became the first brothers to play in a competitive game together for the club in 90 years.

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They followed in the illustrious footsteps of Tom and William Lauder – all the way back in 1930. The Lauder brothers played together six times over two seasons, the last in a defeat to Cowdenbeath. While the two McGinns have played together for St Mirren Paul, who had been unaware of the Hibernian milestone, was delighted. “That’s great, it’s a strange one, but it’s pleasing that we achieved that. Following on from John being made captain of Scotland for the Slovakia game it’s been an interesting time for us. “We were delighted as a family to see John lead out the national team. It’s a huge honour for him, and it’s great to see. And then to chalk up this milestone with Stephen on top, it’s been good.” After achieving his first Scotland callup himself in recent weeks, Paul will be hoping to keep his name front of mind for national Head Coach Steve Clarke with the Euros now approaching.

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HIBERNIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH FOOD PARCELS Since the beginning of May, the Hibernian Community Foundation have worked hard to deliver over 2350 food parcels to families in the Edinburgh and surrounding areas.

Foundation staff and donors for their efforts over the last six months. Without you we would not have been able to pack over 30,000 items and support young and old across our communities.” This would not have been possible without connection the Community Foundation have with Cyrenians FareShare and Tesco Leith. A partnership formed through the Famous FiveA-Day project.

Over 950kg of food has been collected and distributed to the public, equating to 2230 meals for families to enjoy. As we strive to be The Greenest Club in Scotland, an incredible 3000kg of Co2 savings has been achieved with the reduction of food waste. An average of 85 bags have been delivered each week by Foundation staff. Community Development Manager, Lewis Melee reflected on the efforts of the team over the last six months. He said: “The last six months have, without doubt, brought a number of challenges to our communities. However, through our partnerships across Edinburgh and East Lothian we have been able to support those most in need with emergency food parcels and weekend help bags. We have pulled some parts of the community back together to ensure that everyone has the resources they require. “This is the first time Hibernian Community Foundation have worked on food parcel delivery and we understand the need continues. The process has taught us so much over the last six months and we will use this knowledge for future learning across all our work. I would like to place on record my thanks to all volunteers,

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Elsewhere, at Hibernian Women, Eilidh Adams is the latest player to break into the first team from the Girls Academy. The 16-year-old Hibernian Women striker has journeyed through the youth setup after joining at age 13 after being brought up as a Hibs fan – she still cherishes her season ticket!

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ur visitors Celtic played a big part in your early football career â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Club where it started for you? Yeah, I signed on at Celtic from school, and spent a few years in the youth

teams and the reserve team at Celtic Park. At that time, it proved impossible for me to break into their first team and I knew I had to move on to play firstteam football and continue my career, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a massive Club and I learned a lot there.

What kind of things there influenced you? Tommy Burns was the manager at that time, and I saw for myself the standards he set – both for the players, the coaches and for himself. He always tried to make sure people kept to those standards, he had such respect for the Club. Who played there at that time? I shared digs with Liam Miller, and the other young player who came through the ranks with us was Mark Burchill. I know Liam obviously went on to play here at Hibs as well, and established himself with the fans here as a top player. But there were so many top international players at Celtic, and Rangers, at that time. At Celtic we had buys like Paolo di Canio, Pierre van Hooijdonk, and I was there when Mark Viduka came and Henrik Larsson. Not bad… And a centre-half who would go on and do quite well as a Hibernian boss… Yeah Alan Stubbs was centre-half then. He was a top player, and a great guy too. He put off a fair bit of time to help younger players when not every first-team player did. Looking ahead to the game, how do you think we have done as we are now into the second round of fixtures for the season? Pretty good. There is always room for improvement, of course, but people will probably know by now that Jack and I set short-term targets with the players, breaking the season into smaller pieces. At the moment we are pretty close to where we want to be, and the challenge

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now it so push on and compete for that third-place. But considering where we were, and considering the fairly big turnover in the squad, we feel we are in a pretty good place. What areas do we need to improve? There is always room to improve, as I say. We’ve generally been good defensively, and at times we’ve been very good going forward too. We’ve been creating chances, but for a few games there we weren’t taking our chances and getting the goals we deserved. It was good to score a few against Dundee at the weekend, and to get that going again. Now we need to keep it going. How important is this game against Celtic in keeping the momentum going? Every game is important. There is no question this will be a tough match. Celtic are a very good team with good players. It’s the kind of game you want as a player, testing yourself against the best. It’s a big game between two teams who like to play. It’s just a shame that fans won’t be there to push us on, but we think we’ve got good players who can hurt Celtic and we will be trying to win the match. Is it a good time to be playing Celtic? They have had one or two disappointing results by their own standards? Listen, Celtic are a top team. They’ve got a top manager and top players and they know how to win. They always come to play, and they will give you a chance to play, but I don’t go along with those who seem quick to write off a team that has won everything in recent years.

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What are you looking for from the season? Progress. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking for us to do better this season than last, and we are well on schedule to do that. But we need to keep it going, to keep setting our short-term targets and to keep hitting as many as we can and see where that takes us. If we do that then hopefully we can be in and around the right end of the league come the end of the season, looking at European qualification and competing for Cups. But to do that we need to keep working, and keep progressing.

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Scottish League | Saturday 15th November 1947 HIBERNIAN 2 - 1 DUNDEE Turnbull Smith

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Hibs: Brown, Govan and Shaw, Buchanan, Waldie and Kean, Smith, Combe, Linwood, Turnbull and Ormond. Dundee: Lynch, Fallon and Ancell, Bruce, Boyd and Smith, Gunn, Pattillo, Turnbull and Juliussen. Referee: Peter Craigmyle (Aberdeen) A crowd of around 30,000 watched a thrilling end to end game, two dangerous attacks desperately attempting to outwit two resolute defences. Level at the interval a goal by Gordon Smith a few minutes from the end would be enough to guarantee the Easter Road side the victory that would see them sitting at the top of the league table. The Hibs goalkeeper Jock Brown who was replacing the injured Jimmy Kerr, would join Dundee later in the season. The Scottish international Brown was the father of the future Scottish rugby internationalists Gordon and Peter, he himself appointed physiotherapist of the Scottish rugby side after his retirement from football. Just seven days before the game against Dundee Gordon Smith had scored five in an 8-0 home victory against Third Lanark, a record for a wide player that had only been achieved twice before in England. It was a record that would stand until Harry Melrose scored six from the outside left position in Dunfermlineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10-0 home victory against Partick Thistle in 1959.

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Scottish League | Saturday 13th December 1947 H I B E R N I A N 1 - 1 C E LT I C Cuthbertson

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Hibs: Brown, Govan and Shaw, Finnigan, Aird and Buchanan, Smith, Combe, Linwood, Cuthbertson and Ormond. Celtic: Miller, Mallan, and Milne, McPhail, Corbett and McCauley, Bogan, McDonald, Walsh, Evans and Paton. The huge crowds then attending games at Easter Road had stretched all the way from the ground as far as Easter Road itself and had had held up the Celtic team bus a quarter of a mile from the stadium although it eventually managed to reach the ground in time for the kick-off. With Aird and Cuthbertson replacing Waldie and Turnbull who were both down with flu, over 40,000 spectators watched a Celtic side committed to a dour defensive struggle for much of the game, and despite goals by Cuthbertson for Hibs and Paton for Celtic in the second half, the home side had scorned several chances to put the game beyond doubt, Cuthbertson the main sinner. A few years earlier the Celtic outside right Tommy Bogan, who was then with Hibs, had what was probably the shortest ever international debut on record. In the game against England at Hampden in April 1945 he was carried off after only 40 seconds following a collision with the England goalkeeper Frank Swift before he had even touched the ball. Because it was classed as wartime international the future Hibs player Leslie Johnston, then with Clyde, was allowed to replace Bogan and he scored Scotlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solitary goal in the 3-1 defeat. Bogan would make only one other appearance for Scotland, an inter league game against the Football League in 1948 but by this time would be wearing the colours of Celtic. Runners up in the Scottish Cup the previous season, the 1947-48 campaign would end with the Easter Road side as league champions for the first time since 1903, two points ahead of second placed Rangers, twenty ahead of city rivals Hearts who finished in ninth place and 28 ahead of twelfth placed Celtic. The elation of the success however would be somewhat restrained. Just weeks before a side that he had assembled had finally secured the title, manager Willie McCartney had suffered a massive heart attack during a Scottish Cup tie against Albion Rovers at Cliftonville, dying later that evening. The Albion Rovers side that afternoon had included the future Dunfermline, Hibs, Celtic and Scotland manager Jock Stein.

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Today we welcome Celtic to Easter Road for our second encounter with the Champions, the first league meeting between the teams this season at Easter Road. Their last three league encounters have seen them lose at home to Rangers, draw at Aberdeen, and then return to top form with a thumping 4-1 win away to in-form Motherwell. They boast a squad packed with international players, many of whom have been on Nations League duty including a strong Scotland contingent. M A NAGER

NEIL LENNON Neil Lennon knows his way around Easter Road, following his successful spell at the helm at Hibernian. Brought in to regain top-flight status, Neil succeeded at the first time of asking before cementing Hibernian as a Club that competes at the top end of the Premiership. Neil is in his second spell as gaffer at Celtic, and having set the journey towards the prized “ten in a row” in motion he will be hoping to be there for its clinching this year, but first he and his men will need to see off the growing challenge from Rangers.

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SCOTT BROWN What can you say about Scott Brown? Broony started his career at Easter Road, bursting into the first team from the Academy at the age of just 17 and quickly establishing himself as one of the country’s top talents. Since moving from Easter Road to Parkhead, he has proven himself as one of the very best leaders, a tough, fearless competitor who is the heartbeat of his team. Now a veteran, he remains a massive influence in the big games.

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RYAN CHRISTIE Ryan Christie will be buoyed by his starring performance in Scotland’s Euro play-off win over Serbia. After being on loan at Aberdeen, he returned to Celtic and after initially struggling to break into the side he has gone on to become one of the first names on the team sheet. Energetic, creative and hardworking, he also has the knack of coming up with big goals for his team. Alongside Callum McGregor and Tom Rogic, he provides the attacking drive for Celtic. 22

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The Hibees travelled to Celtic Park full of anticipation on the back of some excellent form, but the home side displayed what gaffer Neil Lennon described as one of their best performances under his stewardship to win the game fairly comfortably through goals by McGregor, Ajeti and Elyounoussie. Jack Ross and his men will be expecting a much more competitive encounter with home advantage.

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