The manager is hopeful of a performance tonight of which the Hibs players who embarked upon that run to the semi-finals of the European Cup 50 years ago would approve. You still see some of that team around the stadium on match days and they are all perfect gentlemen, ... Those are the guys who laid the foundations for Hibs being an entertaining, open, passing football team, which is something I try to follow today. It's thanks to those guys that we can try and humbly follow in their footsteps.
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Everyone at the club was disappointed with the Hibs defeat, so it is crucial we bounce back against Falkirk on Saturday. We have always reacted well to a loss in my time at the club so hopefully we can do the same this weekend.
I thought in the first half we were excellent. We got one goal and could have got a number more. Hibs were on top for a spell at the start of the second half, but after our second goal there was only going to be one winner.
A 5-1 scoreline suggests that we got a doing but that's not the way the game went, ... It was unfortunate that we lost goals at vital times. This is the first taste of Europe for a lot of our players and, in spite of that result, it's hopefully given them the desire to want to get back there. It's important for us to qualify for these competitions. This was our first time there for four years and we want to make Hibs a name that's familiar on the Continent again.
It was the intensity of Italian football which troubled the former Hibs striker most. It was cruel stuff out there as Italians, at that time, were quite prepared to play without the ball, ... Foreign players - and we were the pioneers - were regarded with deep suspicion. Not only were we kicked up and down the park but regularly spat on as well. When I returned home for the close season, I knew I couldn't go back.