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COMMENTATOR: Oh, it's unbelievable! Unbelievable! | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
It's a spectacular opening goal in the derby. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
This is history! Highland history! | :00:17. | :00:43. | |
There's nothing quite like the magic of Scottish Cup final day. For the | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
first time ever, two teams from outside the top league are competing | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
for the big prize. It is the 13th time in two seasons Rangers and Hibs | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
have gone head-to-head. They know each other only too well. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Left-footed from Rogic... Skies it! | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
And Rangers are through to the Scottish Cup final! | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Alan Stubbs has guided Hibernian into the Scottish Cup final. | :01:08. | :01:19. | |
It'll be an all-Championship Scottish Cup final | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
# Baby, if you could, would you go back to the start? | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
It's more Hampden heartache for Hibernian. | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
# Take any fresh steps or watch it all fall apart again? | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
# Play another song here, then you can leave | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
# With your delicate wings, I used to weave | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
# It could have been a wonderful year | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
# Instead we might not make it to the end | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
# You gave me magical, I gave you wonderful | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
# Cut that invisible cord or I'll starve you | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
# Let's make immeasurable moves to the left | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Rangers have pulled off the seemingly unthinkable. | :02:23. | :02:34. | |
# Baby if you could would you go back to the start? # | :02:35. | :02:53. | |
Will it be a trophy treble for Rangers? The Championship and the | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
Challenge Cup are already theirs. It would add up to a horror hat-trick | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
for Hibs, who have already missed out on promotion, the pain is still | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
raw, and they lost at Hampden in the League Cup final. But maybe the | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
black cloud over Leith will have a silver lining and they can get their | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
hands on the elusive Scottish Cup after a wait of 114 years. The | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
winners will play in Europe, at least Alan Stubbs's team is matched | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
sharp. Rangers have not played a competitive game in three weeks. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
Does any of that matter on cup final day? We are about to find out. | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
Taking centre stage, the world's oldest national football trophy. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
This is the 131st year it has been played for, and for a fifth | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
successive season, whatever happens a different name will be etched into | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
the special silverware. The 2016 Scottish Cup final is on the BBC and | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
this is our studio line-up. # Light the fuse, | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
gonna watch it blow Ronald de Boer, Pat Nevin and | :04:01. | :04:43. | |
Michael Stewart. That took a bit of digging out, Michael. Is this the | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
day for Hibs, is it the year for their Scottish Cup? We have a great | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
chance. Plenty of games against Rangers to size them up and know | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
what they are about. I had a weird feeling it would be their year, but | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
having lost the semifinal in the play-offs, I am not sure now. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Rangers are slight favourites but Hibs have a chance. Ronald, some | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
happy memories of this shiny thing. Beating Celtic was special, 3-2. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
Winning the trophy is always great. Had you followed the Rangers journey | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
back to the big-league? Of course. It's massive. I was therefore a | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
great four years, despite injury problems. I had a great time. | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
Rangers, still one of the biggest clubs in Europe. It is a shame that | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
a club like that went so down, but it's great for Scottish football | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
take their suffering to a new level? take their suffering to a new level? | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
-- can the. They might have to, but the way it has happened has been | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
incredible. Hibs have had a great season, Rangers were slightly | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
better, winning the league. The pain of the late goals, just getting so | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
close... Much more painful that way. The one thing about this | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
competition, the semifinals were so exciting, fabulous games. This | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
should be the same. Really exciting game. I think we have got two teams | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
that want to play attacking football. Everything is in place. | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
Could Hibs's desire be the thing? Rangers have achieved their | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
objective of getting to the Premiership. Hibs desperately need | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
something from the season. Sometimes that desperation can play against | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
you, if you want it too much. You need to focus on the game and not | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
get caught up in everything surrounding it. Yes, both teams' | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
main objective was to get promoted and Rangers have done that. In a cup | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
final you have to put that one side and focus on the game. I don't think | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
it is a case of Hibs having more. Rangers are desperate to lift the | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
trophy as well. Considering where Rangers have come from, it would be | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
a really special season if it was the title, promotion, the Scottish | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Cup and Europe. Of course. They know that, they want to do it for the | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
fans. It is great for next year. You are going full force into next | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
season, so it would be perfect. The same of course, Hibs have a great | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
team. It's going to be very even. Two hours of build-up, this is a | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
sample of what is on the way. The football fairy tale that was | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
East Kilbride. Just so delighted to | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
be in the next round with Celtic. What a feeling. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
It really feels so good to say that. The Rangers climb | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
back to the big-time. 25 years on, the memories | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
of the family final. The main thing was that, | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
in the final, if you lost, it was your brother that was going | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
to win the cup. Who was the role model | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
for the Hibs goalkeeper? Well, because of yourself, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
your penalty save in 1990. I remember watching it | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
in my sitting room. What's it really like to play | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
in this football showpiece? Thinking back, you didn't even | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
realise until after Playing for Hibs is | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
a boyhood dream come true. A club I've supported all my life. | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
It was a real easy choice. Walked through the doors, | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
signed on the dotted line and got my number, | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
24, and that was me. Being Jason Cummings, | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
by two who should know. He always seems to pop up and get | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
the goals in the box. We look at the making | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
of Mark Warburton. He's remembered fondly, | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
but if you know Mark, he's going to be remember | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
fondly wherever he goes. He's very good with people, | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
having the ability to make And will the return of | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
Anthony Stokes have a happy ending? I've enjoyed my time here, that's | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
one of the reasons I came back - because I enjoyed the first | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
spell I had for a season here. You will get a glimpse of the 1991 | :09:10. | :09:24. | |
version of Craig Paterson when we venture down the Motherwell memory | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
lane, a court of a century on from the finest vinyl, the 2016 model is | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
our match summariser. Craig and his Motherwell team-mates of the day | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
have celebrated that quite a lot. Hopefully we will get something | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
similar this afternoon. Rangers and Hibs, they have become familiar foes | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
over the last couple of seasons. 12 times they have met, six wins | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
apiece. On paper, not much between them. Very little between them, both | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
more than capable of winning. Hibs dominated the league matches, | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Rangers came out on top in the knockout situations. Will it make a | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
difference? Not a bit, it is about bringing your A game to Hampden | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
Park. They have to bounce back, Hibs. Both sides know a place in | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
Europe is up for grabs, it is a big game. Rangers have not played for a | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
few weeks, the Championship season ended at the start of the month. We | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
talked about this last year with Falkirk, before they played | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
Inverness. Will it come into play, the fact they had been idle for so | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
long? They will say they are fresher, if it goes to extra time | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
they might have better legs. The adrenaline flowing through the | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
players will take care of any problems in terms of fitness. It is | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
down to who plays. They want to get the ball down and play. The midfield | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
is the key, if you dominate there, you will win the cup. We were at | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
Falkirk a week yesterday when Hibs' bid for promotion was ended. They | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
lost the League Cup final here a couple of months ago. A bit of a | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
downer. Talking about Rangers being idle, is the fact that Hibs have had | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
such poor results going to come into play? They will be extra keen to get | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
a result, having lost a cup final and the play-offs, you don't want a | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
third disappointment. Hibs will be fired up, and they will have to be, | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
because Rangers have won the Championship and the cup. If Hibs | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
can win today, these players will go down as legends at Easter Road. | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Expecting any surprises in the starting line-up? Alan Stubbs likes | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
to play three centre-backs against Rangers and has had good results. It | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
means Stevenson and Gray can get forward and confront Wallace and | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Tavernier. I know how Rangers are going to line-up. The sun has come | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
out. Some competition this season as usual. I wonder if there will be | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
more magic moments this afternoon. # Roll up, roll up, roll up | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
for satisfaction # Everybody wants, | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
everyboy needs # So get up, get up, get up | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
to get some action # It's the ticket | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
you've been waiting for # Roll up, roll up, roll up | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
for satisfaction # Everybody wants, | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
everyboy needs # So get up, get up, get up | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
to get some action # It's the ticket | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
you've been waiting for # Cos everybody wants, | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
everybody wants When you think of the magic of the | :12:39. | :12:58. | |
Scottish Cup this season, two words pretty quickly come to mind, East | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
and Kilbride. Their meeting with Celtic was a moment for all cup | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
romantics to savour. Kenny was with them every step of the way. He | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
organised a little reunion. Has there ever been such | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
a lopsided match-up? When you entered the Scottish Cup, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
was there anything right at the beginning where you thought, | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
we're going to have We were nearly going | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
out, weren't we? We were nearly going out | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
when we played Forres Mechanics. Khutsishvili! | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
The Highlanders are in front. This tie will be decided | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
in the Highlands. I actually owed a wee bit | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
to the gaffer, to be honest. It is a second | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
for Craig Hastings! We were writ off before the game | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
even started. And then I think that's when our | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
name got out a wee bit. How does it feel | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
to be in the third round now? If we get through, you never know, | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
we might get Celtic or Rangers. We had a point to prove and it | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
showed, because that was our best The way we played, | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
we were keeping the ball for fun. I think Stenhousemuir were | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
absolutely stunned. The little team from the lower | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
leagues are two goals up! Jason Scotland gives his | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
side a lifeline. And they get the equaliser, | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
and then the final whistle went. We went into the dressing room | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
and there was utter silence, We'll left our heads and get | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
prepared again on Monday You could really say | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
it's just half-time. And it is the perfect | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
start for Kilby! That will settle it. | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
This cup run is not stopping here. That's probably the best draw | :15:09. | :15:21. | |
we could've actually got. First game got called off, | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
there was snow up at K-Park. Which meant that the draw came out | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
for the fifth round before you'd finished against Lothian | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
Thistle Hutchison Vale. I was watching it with my mum. My | :15:43. | :15:43. | |
mum predicted it would be Celtic. Right enough, Celtic came out and | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
she just ran about the living room, screaming, and then my phone was | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
just red hot. We had this big hurdle in front | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
of us, in Lothian Thistle. A couple of attacks, one especially | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
they should have scored. That settled us down. | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
That settled the boys down. I just stayed on the keeper | :16:13. | :16:24. | |
every corner and set piece. Luckily for me, he dropped one. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
It just landed right beside me. Couldn't believe my luck! | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Just a wee toe-poke in. Just so delighted to | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
be in the next round with Celtic. What a feeling. | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
It really feels so good to say that. I don't care who was in that green | :16:41. | :16:50. | |
and white jersey next door. Knock at the door, and the boy hands | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
in the team line-up. And I threw it onto the table. | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
Not interested. And I'm looking right | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
into their eyes. The sweat's going down | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
my legs when I looked! Celtic's playing | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
their strongest team. A chilly afternoon here | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
in Airdrie for what is I'm out in the technical area, | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
and I remember shouting, And we're knocking the ball, | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
and making Celtic... Small moments of chasing. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
I was swelling with pride. Oh, it hasn't been | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
cleared off the line! It's forced home! | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
Kazim-Richards claims. It's a dream come true for me | :17:43. | :17:54. | |
to play against my boyhood heroes. Fingers crossed, if I'm here next | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
season, we can do it again. Barry Russell has not been parted | :18:00. | :18:25. | |
from that Celtic jersey since then! Back here at Hampden Park, the | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
playing surface could not be looking in much better shape. The final | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
preparations have been made. The surface was not good when Rangers | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
won the challenge cup here, it has been relayed since. I was down on | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
the pitch at the start, it looks in great shape, that will not be an | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
excuse. Rangers have already hit the target with their main objective for | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
the season achieved, a third promotion in four Seasons has them | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
back in the top tier. The journey is complete. | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
Rangers, one of the giants of world football, have been consigned | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
to life among the minnows of the Scottish game. | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
I was away on holiday and I still couldn't believe it. | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
At first, it was a wee bit of a shock, to be honest. | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
The Scottish Football League's only acceptable position will be to place | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
The last five pages of the paper was all about Rangers and how things | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
Nothing seemed to be beyond the realms of possibility. | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
From the outset, we made it clear we would play | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
The majority of the people, certainly the supporters, went, | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
right, that's our medicine, we have to take it. | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
We've been put down there, we have to get on with it. | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
It felt quite historic, Rangers arriving in these places. | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
It was a big deal for these towns to host Rangers. | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
Even though playing at a lesser level, and obviously not | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
against the top players, you are still playing | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
As a player, that's what you want as well. | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
It did become a recurring theme that they stumbled a few times. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
They did lose at Stirling Albion when Stirling were bottom | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
of the league, they beat Rangers 1-0. | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
The Stirling Albion manager was away, he took the day | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
A season of unfamiliar opponents, but a familiar result. | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
Ultimately, we've still won the league. | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
The feeling that they had kind of clicked, | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
The football wasn't always particularly pretty. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
They went through the whole league season unbeaten. | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
Some of these lower division pitches aren't the best, | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
So at times it wasn't pretty football at all. | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
We knew that and I'm sure everyone watching knew that as well. | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
Just getting through the games, game management almost. | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
That first Championship season for Rangers, they were totally | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
Rangers were strong favourites to win the division and keep | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
this kind of momentum of annual league wins. | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
Hearts set a ferocious pace at the start of the season. | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
Ousmane Sow! Sensational finish at Ibrox. | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
It was a difficult season for everybody. | :21:13. | :21:13. | |
Hearts were by far the best team in the Championship, ran away | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
I think you could say they surprised everybody, the way | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
I don't know how many points they had. | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Ally McCoist has left his position as Rangers manager and the club say | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
When you see the way the manager was towards the end, | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
As a football manager, you want to concentrate on | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
A lot of the time at the end, a lot of attention was | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
It was all about how he dealt with everything off the field. | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
When I actually went in, in my 35 years of being involved | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
in football, the morale and the confidence was the lowest | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
From the top of the club, there was no leadership. | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
There was nobody there to get a grip of the club. | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
It was like a rudderless ship, if you like. | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
I don't think we were equipped as a team to go and face Celtic | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
Personally, and I'm sure a few of the other boys would say, | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
we were out of luck that day and Celtic ran out | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
We came up short against Motherwell in the play-offs. | :22:26. | :22:37. | |
No doubt about it, over the two legs, Motherwell were by far | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
Ainsworth scores the goal that secures safety for Motherwell! | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
In a 15-minute spell, all the work of a full season that | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
had been done to try and get into the top league at the first | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
time of asking, was unravelled in a three-goal spell. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
I did say at the time it was a great time to come into Rangers. | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
It was almost a blank canvas to bring your own players in. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Rangers have been really impressive under Warburton this season. | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
He has signed well, he's signed players we weren't really aware of. | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
It's going to be left for Tavernier! | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
Mark Warburton has gelled the team together, built a team that | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
genuinely believe they can win any game of football. | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
So I think for the first time in years, there's a style of play, | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
the fans are sitting on the edge of their seats, saying, | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
And then of course the semifinal against Celtic. | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
Which so far has been the signature result and performance | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
Barrie McKay scores a wonder goal for Rangers in extra time! | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
Rangers played so comfortably and were good on the ball | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
and played out from the back, and kept the ball for long periods. | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
I don't think I've ever seen an Old Firm game where it's been | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
that one team's played far better than the other team. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
I thought Rangers were fantastic, passed them off the pitch. | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
There's no doubt the quality of the football they played | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
It was a massive lift for the whole football club. | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
Throughout the season, they must be delighted. | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
The things that he's put in place, the players have taken on board. | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
And again, the backing and support, it's just been | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
Just over an hour and a half to kick-off, Alan Stubbs leads | :24:28. | :24:43. | |
Hibernian off the bus into Hampden Park. The League Cup final losers, | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
they missed out on promotion, can they win the Scottish Cup against | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
Rangers? We will find out in the coming moment. We have been watching | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
those recollections of Rangers fighting their way back through the | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
leagues, can you remember where you were when you heard the news four | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
years ago that such a big club, your former club, had been relegated to | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
the fourth level? I can't remember, but it was shocking. You know how | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
big Rangers is all over the world. Everywhere you come, Rangers fans. | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
We took about Rangers and Celtic, how big they are. You think if they | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
are in the Premiership, they would be the likes of Liverpool, that | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
status, and they go down to the third division. It was a major | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
shock. Could you explain it to yourself? It is due to management. | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
We have it now in our Dutch league, Twente has to go down. You want your | :25:48. | :25:58. | |
team to go well, but you go over your Budget. That is not the way to | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
do it. Mismanagement. Every big company, if you do that, you get | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
sacked, and the company is probably ruined. That is the same as a | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
football club. Was it still the right thing to do? The rules are the | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
rules. I can understand the argument against it, it felt very Draconian, | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
but the people have to work within what they see as the rules. Stuart | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
McCall says it better than any of us, it has happened, we need to get | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
on with it and stop it looked as if it would be a straight progression | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
all the way up. Looking back now, I hope eventually people look back at | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
those teams that got through those divisions and be very depressed. The | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
work that Ally McCoist and Lee McCulloch did. It is tough to get | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
all the way through and stick by the club. I applaud them. In the end, | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
they were going to get back, it took them a year longer, but they are now | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
getting back when he looked strong enough, and that is important. Until | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
this season, you would not say they have done it in style. That is a | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
fair assessment. You look at the transition from last season to this | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
season, it is huge. You can now see them settling into the top flight | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
and aching a good fist of it. Previously, there was a huge golf. | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
That is a huge credit to Mark Warburton and the players he has | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
brought in. You heard Michael Grant, who brought in a lot of guys we did | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
not know a great deal about, he has moulded them into a young, energetic | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
team. For the Rangers supporters, they can now look at that side and | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
get excited about it. It will be a good addition to the top flight next | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
year. There is Mark Warburton leading Rangers of their team bus. | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
Kenny Miller. We will get the team news at 2pm, that is as early as we | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
can get it. We will bring it to you at that point. Rangers against | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
Hibernian, the 2016 Scottish Cup final. We are also looking back, one | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
of the most fondly remembered finals is 25 years old, Tim -- Jim and | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
Tommy McClane led out Dundee United and Motherwell in an unforgettable | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
match, it still reduces grown men to tears. | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
There's Tom McLean and Jim McLean leading out their respective teams. | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
The build-up to the final was disappointing for the family, | :28:33. | :28:34. | |
because my father died the Tuesday prior to the game. | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
The second time that brothers have led out the Cup final teams. | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
The main thing was in the final, if you lost, it was your | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
The friendly family Cup final is under way. | :28:47. | :28:55. | |
My memories of the day would be getting up in the morning, | :28:56. | :28:58. | |
myself and Davie Cooper, looking to see who we would bet | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
on to score the first goal, I am sure he bet me! | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
I picked the ball up, given to Jim Griffin, | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
he went down the right-hand side, a great ball in. | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
The problem was Ally Maxwell had a bad injury. | :29:14. | :29:27. | |
Colliding with Maxwell, he is in trouble. | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
It was the act of his jump, the sharp end of his elbow | :29:35. | :29:44. | |
It was the way I landed, punctured the spleen. | :29:45. | :29:52. | |
I don't attach any blame to John Clark whatsoever. | :29:53. | :29:54. | |
I would have gone for the ball as well. | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
It is how we played the game back then. | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
He is going to continue, but I can't help imagining | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
they will want to test him again very quickly indeed. | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
I was really struggling with my movement. | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
Drilling the ball in low, testing Maxwell, | :30:14. | :30:15. | |
It hit the turf and skidded a little, rather than bounced. | :30:16. | :30:23. | |
I did not get down as quick as I thought I could have done. | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
I would have saved it if I was fully fit. | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
In the second half, another two goals, quite rapid. | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
We felt we were in control at 3-1, thinking about walking up to lift | :30:38. | :30:54. | |
the trophy, but Dundee United had other ideas. | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
At that point, I thought the pendulum had swung in their favour. | :31:00. | :31:18. | |
There's not one player that is a quitter. | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
We all want to win things, but initially we had to win it | :31:26. | :31:32. | |
by beating Dundee United, secondly we had to do it | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
with a goalkeeper injured, and then we lost a goal | :31:37. | :31:39. | |
30 minutes and perhaps the penalty shoot out. | :31:40. | :31:47. | |
Maxwell will be dreading that prospect. | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
Alan Main, a phenomenal goalkeeper, he fumbled the cross a bit. | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
It's a thing I have never said to the players, well done. | :32:00. | :32:27. | |
The final whistle has gone. Motherwell have won the Cup. | :32:28. | :32:36. | |
In the most dramatic fashion possible. | :32:37. | :32:44. | |
It was a great reflection on how my father wanted | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
us to play the game, the spirit it was played in. | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
It's the moment these Motherwell supporters have | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
It's so sad that they all can't be here to enjoy the moment. | :32:58. | :33:12. | |
Davie Cooper's contribution was second to none. | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
Philip was a young man at the height of his development. | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
Jamie was a ball-winning midfield player. | :33:21. | :33:31. | |
They'd be first four I think about, I don't think | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
They were an integral part of the team. | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
Every time I see that, gets me. It must get this man, Craig Paterson, | :33:41. | :33:57. | |
our co-commentator today, who played must get this man, Craig Paterson, | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
in that game, a Scottish Cup winner with Motherwell in 1991. It must be | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
so poignant when you get together. Great memories of a wonderful day, a | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
magical cup win for Motherwell, the supporters and the town. Sadness | :34:13. | :34:14. | |
when you think of the four lads who supporters and the town. Sadness | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
are not there to enjoy it with us. Just one of those days, the game had | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
everything. The brothers managing the teams, the tragedy of their | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
father passing away the week before. Seven goals, Max is the wounded | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
hero. Darren Jackson with a last-minute goal. It was Taylor made | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
for Kirky to come and score the winner. He scored against Falkirk. | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
He scored against Celtic. People thought Motherwell's name was on the | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
cup and Kirkwood scored the winner. A lot of people made money betting | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
on Stevie Kirk to score. Never been so happy to hear the final whistle. | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
Dundee United kept coming back. When the final whistle went, you thought, | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
thank goodness, no one can come and take it away. Still talking about it | :35:04. | :35:10. | |
25 years on, fabulous memory. Great memories of 1991. Hibs' Scottish Cup | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
semifinal against Dundee United, we did not know much about debutant | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
goalkeeper Conrad Logan. 16 months after his last senior game, he was | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
an instant hero with a series of superb saves, a couple in the | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
penalty shoot out. He is from Donegal, like another couple of top | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
keepers, Shay Given and our debutant interviewer Packie Bonner. | :35:36. | :35:38. | |
Conrad, for the fans who are watching today, | :35:39. | :35:40. | |
some of them don't know Conrad Logan. | :35:41. | :35:42. | |
I was born in Donegal, I came to England as a 15-year-old, | :35:43. | :35:45. | |
went to Leicester City, and I spent most of my career, | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
15 years, at Leicester City, until I came up here a couple | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
Your dad was one of my heroes, and he played for Finn Harps. | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
Yes, ever since I could walk, I was coming with him to games. | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
Why goalkeeping? Because of yourself. | :36:02. | :36:16. | |
It was you, your penalty save in 1990, I remember watching it | :36:17. | :36:18. | |
The big man from Donegal has set it up for the victory! | :36:19. | :36:33. | |
After that, I wanted to dive like you for | :36:34. | :36:35. | |
I was four years old, my mum was going mad, | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
When you had the homecoming and the books came out, | :36:41. | :36:48. | |
You said, "If you are half as good as your dad, | :36:49. | :36:55. | |
You were out for 15 months with injury. | :36:56. | :37:02. | |
Was there any doubt that you would not come back? | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
I was always quite positive that I would. | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
The surgeon was positive when he did the operation. | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
There is no quick fix for the tendon injury, you have | :37:14. | :37:15. | |
It was a year to the day when I had no pain in my leg, | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
There was light at the end of the tunnel, thinking | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
Did you ever think you would be the hero in a semifinal | :37:27. | :37:33. | |
I was just looking to play a game this season if I could, | :37:34. | :37:40. | |
it is always difficult to find a club with six or seven games left. | :37:41. | :37:43. | |
Half an hour before the warm-up, he named the team, that was it. | :37:44. | :37:51. | |
I was as relaxed as I had been in any game through my career. | :37:52. | :38:00. | |
When you have had an injury and you realise the things that go | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
on outside, maybe being a bit older and everything, | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
I just enjoyed it, I thought it was an unbelievable opportunity | :38:08. | :38:10. | |
They have asked the question of Conrad Logan now. | :38:11. | :38:25. | |
Early enough in the game to make a decent block. | :38:26. | :38:28. | |
Conrad Logan has just received a standing ovation | :38:29. | :38:44. | |
It gives the defenders and people I have not played | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
with more confidence, they can rely on you | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
The first Scottish Cup semifinal is going to a penalty shoot out. | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
When I came to the club, I did not realise how long | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
They said, "If you play in the semifinal, you could | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
The man of the moment does it again. | :39:07. | :39:18. | |
Jason Cummings has the chance to put Hibernian into the final. | :39:19. | :39:32. | |
The tweets and things I read in the paper about how much | :39:33. | :39:44. | |
Who were you on the phone to on the middle of the pitch? | :39:45. | :39:50. | |
I rang my father, I did not have reception. | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
He got the next phone call! I rang my father. | :39:54. | :40:00. | |
It had been a hard time, being injured, for everyone. | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
You need your family and friends to stick by you. | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
Do you have enough tickets coming over from Donegal? | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
We are all sorted and ready, they will have their seats, | :40:13. | :40:14. | |
Best of luck. Thank you. | :40:15. | :40:31. | |
That is one of those rare interviews where you say, who is the biggest | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
influence on your career? Well, you, actually! What a story, Conrad | :40:38. | :40:45. | |
Logan. Cliche alert, fairy tale. We all sat there watching it when we | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
came on, I hadn't seen it before... We were a bit apprehensive, let's be | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
absolutely honest, but he was absolutely stunning. And you watch | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
what happened after these saves. The first one he closes everything down. | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
When he finally became the hero and the penalties were saved, most of | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
the players ran to him, not the goal-scorer. The speed off the line | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
was fantastic. Technically superb. Adapting his feet to get to the | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
crosses. He didn't get up the quickest in the world after that | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
penalty, but he got up in time to save that one. The reaction was | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
quite stunning for the Hibs fans. It is like a fairy tale because he was | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
nowhere and suddenly a hero. It was a door to watch if you are football | :41:31. | :41:39. | |
fan, a great story. The Hibs fans must have been concerned, thinking | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
he had not played since 2014, and they ended up giving him a standing | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
ovation. When you see his size, you think he is not in the best shape. | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
But the save we just saw, I think also he has learned from other | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
goalies. He doesn't go too quick to the ground. He uses his arms, like a | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
handball goalie. That is why he saved them. They great story. For | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
somebody so long out. Respect for the man. Maybe more heroics to come | :42:08. | :42:14. | |
today from Conrad. Some of us and some of you know exactly what it is | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
like to play in a big game. Others can only guess what goes through a | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
player's mind during the big build-up. A fascinating insight from | :42:23. | :42:29. | |
the hero of 2002, Peter Lovenkrands looking back. | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
That day was special. It is not like any other game. | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
Coming into Hampden Park, the bus pulling in, | :42:39. | :42:40. | |
You are finally there, Tina Turner's Simply The Best | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
was playing, everybody was getting hyped up. | :42:46. | :42:48. | |
Walking to the dressing room, that is when I started to feel | :42:49. | :42:54. | |
I couldn't stop yawning, I was asked, "Are you tired?" | :42:55. | :43:04. | |
I said, "No, I am just nervous." I yawn when I am nervous. | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
He said, "Don't worry, we've got this." | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
You feel like time is going slow because you are excited. | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
You can hear it in the dressing room, the singing going on. | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
Half the stadium against you, half with you, it is special. | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
This Rangers team are lined up and ready to go. | :43:29. | :43:37. | |
You don't wait, because you don't care, you just focus | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
It's a big game, and you know that from the get go. | :43:42. | :43:53. | |
Just wanted to get into the game quickly and get settled. | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
Annoy the centre half as much as possible. | :43:58. | :44:00. | |
A couple of minutes in, I felt good, got some good chances, | :44:01. | :44:07. | |
you feel ready, you feel like you are in the game. | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
The ball fell for me, I took a touch. | :44:13. | :44:23. | |
Normally I would have played him in, because he would not be happy! | :44:24. | :44:31. | |
The ball goes in, there is an amazing sound that comes | :44:32. | :44:34. | |
Peter Lovenkrands gets a fifth Old Firm goal of the season. | :44:35. | :44:45. | |
Thinking back, you did not realise until after what you had | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
People running off the bench, the staff, everybody is so excited. | :44:51. | :45:04. | |
You are just trying to soak it all up. | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
Peter Lovenkrands with the Cup in his hand. | :45:10. | :45:12. | |
Two goals which he will long remember. | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
It is not until you come home, "What happened today? | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
You make history, an experience you will always remember. | :45:22. | :45:34. | |
Don't tell of the story you told us earlier about him, but he was a bit | :45:35. | :45:44. | |
quick. Unbelievable. You can have pace, but if you don't use it, some | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
boys always wanted at his feet, but he chooses it very well. We had | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
players behind him, we could send him away. He almost gave you an | :45:56. | :45:58. | |
apology for shooting! Should he have passed to you? No! I | :45:59. | :46:11. | |
won't comment on that! You decide in a split-second. Maybe he did not see | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
he is so focused. There is one thing on his mind. When some players have | :46:18. | :46:25. | |
something in their head, it stays in their Fed. He is a bit like that. | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
Don't give him too much information, their Fed. He is a bit like that. | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
just let him go. He can be incredible. The Scotland manager | :46:35. | :46:37. | |
just let him go. He can be here, a couple of big games coming | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
up, a couple of friendlies, against France and Italy will stop he will | :46:42. | :46:44. | |
take in this match this afternoon. This is the one I have been looking | :46:45. | :46:55. | |
forward to. It is a bit different. Rangers and Hibernian, we have not | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
had that for a while. The place is going to be full of colour. The | :47:00. | :47:04. | |
pitch is perfect. It is perfect for a cup final. I hope the rain will | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
stay off, the players can produce what they have done all season. They | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
have done tremendously well. Discovered stars on the way, Barrie | :47:14. | :47:20. | |
McKay, John McGinn, people like that. We hope they will enjoy | :47:21. | :47:25. | |
themselves. They can only be one winner, but it is a great occasion. | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
Everybody is looking at Hibernian and asking, can they recover from | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
not getting promotion? They have had disappointing matches en route. Have | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
they got more to prove? They have proved that they can play, they are | :47:41. | :47:43. | |
well coached, they have a determination, they have had a bit | :47:44. | :47:50. | |
of bad luck. If you look back at several occasions, you think... But | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
that will change. The only way it can change this by making it happen. | :47:57. | :48:03. | |
That is the only thing the players have got to decide. Hope that | :48:04. | :48:08. | |
Rangers don't play well and they can win it that way. Alan will say, we | :48:09. | :48:14. | |
have got to take this. You have media commitments, but you are | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
watching this as Scotland manager. What are you looking at's --? The | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
ability to pass the ball and keep the ball. The fitness level and | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
determination when things are not going well. To keep going. | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
You need the first touch and composure and decision-making, so I | :48:36. | :48:43. | |
will be looking for that. It would be remiss of me to not ask you about | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
Brendan Rodgers, a good appointment for Celtic? Terrific. He has got to | :48:48. | :48:55. | |
work with a great group of people behind the scenes, fantastic | :48:56. | :48:58. | |
support, and I am sure the players will be looking forward to it. He | :48:59. | :49:06. | |
has managed at a massive club like Liverpool, but is it different | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
managing... I have not managed Liverpool, so I can't tell you! But | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
is it different? Manchester United, Leeds United, it is different being | :49:18. | :49:23. | |
a player from a manager. Management is something else, it is a lonely | :49:24. | :49:30. | |
place. No matter where you are. But he has had a good grounding. Europe | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
is the big thing for him, he has got to try and be successful. The league | :49:37. | :49:45. | |
is almost secondary. You need to ask the Celtic the Pol their ambitions | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
are. They have a terrific manager. Enjoy the day. | :49:51. | :50:02. | |
We have got -- we have gone this far without mentioning Rendon Rogers. | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
The bookies were telling us it was happening, but how much of a | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
surprise that Celtic have got a manager at that level? You had asked | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
a week ago, I would have been very surprised. You might have thought he | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
could go to a top club in England. It is a fantastic opportunity, a big | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
club. I also think he fits Celtic perfectly. When you watched him at | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
the very best when Liverpool were playing the best under him, Luis | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
Suarez, Raheem Sterling, they were fantastic to watch. Celtic fans | :50:36. | :50:41. | |
demand that. If you are going to watch teams who want to play good | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
football on the ground, we have another manager who will play really | :50:46. | :50:48. | |
good football as well. It can only be good for Scottish football. Some | :50:49. | :50:54. | |
would say that Celtic have been on a downward spiral. Still winning the | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
title in this country, but their European performances have been a | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
disappointment. Is this a statement of intent? You want to go back to | :51:02. | :51:09. | |
where they normally are, in their way of football, how people see | :51:10. | :51:17. | |
them. Rangers coming back. I won't say everything is back to normal, | :51:18. | :51:23. | |
but they want to be there. They want to be ready for the next step. | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
Brendan Rodgers has so much experience, it is a good move. This | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
will have the Rangers fans talking today beyond this game, because it | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
up the ante. Of course. There was a lot of chat that Celtic had to make | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
a statement with this appointment, and they have done. Gordon Strachan | :51:43. | :51:49. | |
said you need to speak to Celtic to find out what their objectives are, | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
but there is no doubt, if you speak to anybody involved, they have got | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
to get back to competing in Europe because they have fallen away in the | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
last three or four years. That will be one of the parts of the remit, to | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
get them competitive on the European stage again. Aberdeen have run them | :52:06. | :52:12. | |
close the last couple of years, Rangers coming up, Heart of | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
Midlothian will want to kick on, so there will be competition at home, | :52:16. | :52:19. | |
but the European stage is where they need to get to. Lee Wallace and | :52:20. | :52:22. | |
but the European stage is where they Barrie McKay have been called up for | :52:23. | :52:25. | |
Scotland, you watched the semifinal eatery against Celtic hammered they | :52:26. | :52:28. | |
were effective. Amazing, how they played. For bucks | :52:29. | :52:38. | |
-- full-backs coming up and linking with other players. You cannot stay | :52:39. | :52:46. | |
at the back, you have to have runners, look at the best full-backs | :52:47. | :52:56. | |
in the world. The assist makers were the full-backs. You need to have | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
full-backs who can run the full 100 yards. It is not just the case of a | :53:02. | :53:10. | |
standard overlap. Lea Wallace goes inside the white man and gets to the | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
byline. They have linked up really well. It will be interesting. You | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
heard Craig Paterson talking about whether Alan Stubbs will play three | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
at the back and five in midfield or their normal narrow four-man | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
diamond. This is where it becomes a tactical battle. If Rangers have the | :53:30. | :53:36. | |
space in the wide areas, people like Lea Wallace will exploit that. This | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
is the flip side. When you play attacking full-backs, you have to | :53:41. | :53:45. | |
get the attacking cover. A deep lying midfielder is important. That | :53:46. | :53:53. | |
is the big tactical question. I look at them and think that they are good | :53:54. | :53:58. | |
enough. We have always known what we were getting from Lea Wallace. | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
Barrie McKay thinking about what lies ahead. He was out on loan, | :54:04. | :54:09. | |
there were all sorts of doubts about his future, Mark Warburton said, you | :54:10. | :54:14. | |
are the man for me, and how has he responded? | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
You need games in your body. I went from Ajax to two -- the Twente | :54:21. | :54:28. | |
because you need games. He did it also. Getting more knowledge about | :54:29. | :54:39. | |
what professional football asks. Everybody knew he had the quality | :54:40. | :54:46. | |
already, and now he shows it. I know exactly what you mean, having played | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
in wide areas. If you have a fallback that flies by due and you | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
give the ball away, before but can't go. Barrie McKay does not give the | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
ball away, he has an intelligent mind, he knows when to take chances, | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
and that is why they have been so successful. That one time they were | :55:05. | :55:11. | |
broken on, for every one they have lost, they have scored ten to 15. | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
Always take the positive. There are far more positives in that link up | :55:18. | :55:24. | |
than there are negatives. Lea Wallace is really intelligent. | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
Barrie McKay is a youngster, it is good to have somebody like that | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
behind him, went to tuck in and went to stay out wide. There is a good | :55:33. | :55:40. | |
combination between them. It is all well and good getting the | :55:41. | :55:43. | |
experience, but he needed somebody at Rangers who would give him that | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
opportunity. He could have got the experience and come back and hit a | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
brick wall again. Full credit to Mark Warburton for creating the | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
space for Barrie McKay to do so well. Just over an hour to go to | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
space for Barrie McKay to do so kick off. Last season Darren | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
McGregor was a Rangers player will stop in the summer, there was a | :56:05. | :56:07. | |
parting of the ways, and he went back to the roots, fulfilling his | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
boyhood dream of paying for Hibernian. | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
To be given the opportunity so late in my career to come to a club | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
that I have supported was a dream come true. | :56:21. | :56:23. | |
I don't think Rod Petrie will be happy, but I used to sneak | :56:24. | :56:26. | |
My mum and dad were short of cash, I took it upon myself to go | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
with friends and hopped over the fence. | :56:33. | :56:34. | |
That was my first experience of Hibs. | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
Me being a defender when I was younger, | :56:40. | :56:47. | |
looking up and thinking, this guy has ability. | :56:48. | :56:49. | |
We are told as defenders to head it and clear it and give it | :56:50. | :56:53. | |
to somebody who could play, but to see him gracing | :56:54. | :56:55. | |
Easter Road, I looked up to him and aspired to be him. | :56:56. | :57:04. | |
I remember the phone call, Danny Lennon asked if I wanted | :57:05. | :57:12. | |
I did not take too long to make my mind up. | :57:13. | :57:19. | |
I enjoyed my time at Rangers, they looked after me really well, | :57:20. | :57:30. | |
a lot of good people there, from top to bottom. | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
They want their own people, I respect Mark Warburton. | :57:35. | :57:37. | |
He said at my age I needed to play football, I agreed. | :57:38. | :57:43. | |
A club I have supported all my life, it was an easy choice. | :57:44. | :57:51. | |
I signed on the dotted line and got my number 24, | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
that was me, unbelievable, something I had dreamed | :57:55. | :57:56. | |
His man-management skills are second to none. | :57:57. | :58:06. | |
For me, that has been a big factor in why we have got so far | :58:07. | :58:09. | |
That is a trait that is difficult to acquire. | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
You can be a tactician and set your team out, | :58:16. | :58:18. | |
but if you cannot relate to your players and have | :58:19. | :58:21. | |
a personable conversation with them, it is difficult for them | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
The boys have worked so hard and done so well in cup conditions. | :58:26. | :58:36. | |
To potentially be left with nothing to show for it is really sad. | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
The grit and determination that we will need to show | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
on Saturday, we will be motivated by losing the cup final | :58:47. | :58:50. | |
The season is on a knife edge, having lost the League Cup | :58:51. | :58:58. | |
This is our one chance of redemption. | :58:59. | :59:02. | |
We are sitting here with a great opportunity to win a Cup that | :59:03. | :59:05. | |
has not graced Leith in a good long while. | :59:06. | :59:15. | |
He speaks well. It must be tough when the Rangers manager said, I | :59:16. | :59:28. | |
don't Inc so, not for me. But it has had a happy ending, he is back with | :59:29. | :59:32. | |
his boyhood club. He has had a brilliant season. I had not realised | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
how quick he is. He is lightning quick. He sometimes gets himself in | :59:38. | :59:44. | |
that position is. But his pace gets him out of him. He has got a really | :59:45. | :59:48. | |
good understanding with Danny Handling. He seems comfortable going | :59:49. | :59:54. | |
into a three as well. Not all centre-backs in Scotland have been | :59:55. | :59:59. | |
able to do that. He has managed to do it. It has been a special season. | :00:00. | :00:05. | |
Is it a back three or a back four today for Hibs? The managers make | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
the big money to make the big decisions. That will be one today. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
He has played three at the back against Rangers. He has played four | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
as well. It throws up a conundrum. If they play three, they will have | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
more bodies in the middle but they will have more width. Craig Paterson | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
said if you have the wing-backs and the central three, you can combat | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Rangers in wider areas because Wallace wants to get forward. Of | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
course. The wisdom from that is that Unigate one of the big threats of | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Rangers. You will confront them further up the park. -- you negate. | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
I still think they have played so much with a diamond in the middle of | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
the park. To change it for the cup final would be a big, bold decision. | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
It is a big temptation. There are games when you say, right, we have | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
decent play, but if we can nullify each other... Hibs would accept | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
losing Gray out of the game if you take Wallace out of it because of | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
the effect he has going forward. Kenny Shiels will feel a flush of | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
paternal pride if his son can lift the cup. Dean's first taste of | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
Scottish football... A cup double would be a special moment for father | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
and son. Given all the troubles they have | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
had, did you seek advice from your father about making | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
the move from the SPL to Division 3? Yes, he told me to | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
stay at Kilmarnock! Throughout my career he has always | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
been my main adviser. I will always have him | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
to take advice from. What he can do with the ball | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
is quite extraordinary. From a very young age, | :01:56. | :02:16. | |
his friends where he lived in Northern Ireland | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
were all Rangers supporters. Because he was a free agent, | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
he wanted to try Rangers I can empathise with that, | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
because Rangers are a big club. One of the biggest | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
clubs in the world. Rangers, Celtic, Manchester United, | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
they are synonymous anywhere you go in Europe or South America, | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
they are well known. As Rangers celebrate | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
their return to the top flight The supporters are now reenergised, | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
back in the Premier League, back to challenge the Old Firm, | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
the old rivalry. The methodology of the manager | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
and how they play have lent itself Hibs were very good to my son, | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
they are a great club, Dean Shiels scores | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
at the second attempt. To go there and play for a club that | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
plays football in the right manner with the right philosophy, | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
that was a great period in his life. If he was to ask your advice, | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
what would you say? I would say, treat it | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
like a garden kickabout. You have got to combine | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
two sources of energy, you have to be mentally | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
strong and aggressive in your movement and your nature, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
and you have got to combine that If you can put that recipe together, | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
you are pretty close. Kenny Shiels wondering if his son | :04:03. | :04:23. | |
will play. The all-important team news shortly. Peter Lovenkrands was | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
speaking about how a big match like this affected him. What were you | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
like on cup final date for Rangers? I was already a bit older, but when | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
you are younger, those are the games you are looking forward to. A lot of | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
tension is normal. Too much is not good because you get heavy legs. The | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
thing you look back on in your career, those moments you will never | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
forget. For example when Peter Lovenkrands scored twice against | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Celtic in the final. That is why you have all of the work done before. | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Those are the special things. One can handle the pressure, someone | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
can't. Of course that makes you a good player or not. What were you | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
like before the game, Michael? Some people handle it differently. You | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
just get used to do it with experience. Very young, I was a | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
little bit too nervous, the tension affected my game. Once you get a bit | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
more experience, you learn to relax and handle it. But definitely, there | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
is a big difference between if you allow too much tension to affect | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
your game, but you need a bit of nervous energy almost to keep you on | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
your toes. When I was younger, I had nervous energy almost to keep you on | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
too much. With more experience, I learned to handle it. I couldn't | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
handle the tension. I put too much pressure on myself. In training, I | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
was one of the best. In the game, I couldn't show it. When you get | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
older, you get to a place where you can handle it. I never understood | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
it. I had never been nervous in my life, so I never got it. I used to | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
be slightly jealous of the players who were nervous. Because the | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
players said it gave you edge and a bit of a boost. I thought it was | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
better to be comfortable and relaxed. I'm sure there are a couple | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
of players out there who will be totally comfortable. I can't see | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Cummings being a nervous guy. But a belief in yourself. I talked about | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Patrick Kluivert, he had so much confidence in himself. He even | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
thought he was a good penalty taker. I would say, you are rubbish! But he | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
thinks he is great. In another sense, that makes a good penalty | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
taker, because he has no fear to miss. You get the complete range in | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
the dressing room. Someone who is completely calm and someone who is | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
throwing up in the toilet. Everybody is different. People handle it in | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
different ways. My personal experience, I had too much tension, | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
I couldn't handle it, but I learned to deal with it. Some people you | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
think they are nervous wreck but somehow they managed to handle it | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
and they perform OK. Every team has different characters. You have to | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
get a balance because you can't have everybody the same. We talked about | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
formations and tactics. So much is about who takes the initiative, the | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
front foot, the back foot. Who sets the tone right from the start. Hibs, | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
almost every game they want to get in the face of the opponents. A lot | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
of people said in the build-up, and I would agree, Hibs have to go in | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
front today. If they go behind, it is a nightmare for Hibs, the | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
pressure comes straight onto them. It will be tough for them to come | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
back. They showed against for Kark they can come back but it's really | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
difficult. -- against Falkirk. But in the other semifinal, Celtic | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
wanted to do that with Rangers and they never got a sniff of the ball | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
in the first 45 minutes. It is whoever takes control. 51 minutes | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
until kick-off in the 2016 Scottish Cup final. Here is what is still to | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
come. Being Jason Cummings, | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
by two who should know. He seems to pop up and get | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
the ball in the box. We look at the making of Mark | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Warburton. He is remembered fondly, | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
but if you know him, he will be rumoured fondly | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
wherever he goes. He has the ability to make | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
people feel very special. And will the return | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
of Anthony Stokes I've enjoyed my time here, | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
one of the reasons I came back - because I enjoyed | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
the first spell I had. Rangers will win it easy! 3-0, 3-1. | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
Hibees! 50-50. I think Hibs, definitely. I | :08:51. | :09:24. | |
have a funny feeling they might put us, like. Hibees! We are nervous but | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
we are hoping that Rangers win, maybe 2-1. Come on! Getting closer | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
and closer to the announcement of the teams. Rangers and Hibs. We have | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
spoken about what Hibs might do tactically and shape-wise at the | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
back. I guess Rangers' options are failure limited when you think about | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
it. Ball is suspended, King and O'Halloran cup tied. Law is short of | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
match action. I guess his team is almost going to pick itself, Mark | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Warburton. For a lot of the season, there has been very few changes in | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the Rangers side. A very settled team. A few comings and goings, not | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
a great deal. Coming into this game, a few guys missing, cup tied, | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
Dominic Ball suspended. The one question is in the middle of the | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
park in terms of what is going to happen. In the semifinal, Dominic | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
Ball plate number six and did it really well. I think Halliday will | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
drop in there and it is a question of who is going to step into the | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
middle of the path to take the place to link up with the striker. Not a | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
huge number of decisions for Mark Warburton to make. He will have been | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
quite settled in his mind who his team will have been. The one thing, | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
the number six position, Halliday stepping in and whether he can | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
negate the potential top of the diamond for Hibs if they go that | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
way. Going forward for Rangers, the squad size is an issue in a tougher | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
league. Not much to spare at the moment. No. I remember in our good | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
times, if you have only 13-14 players who play a lot, you feel | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
comfortable and you know each other very well. If you see a big team, | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
you think, is it the right way? For Rangers, it's perfect. This team | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
knows exactly how they want to play. I think it's a benefit. The only | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
problem is who is going to play number six? You want a creator, to | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
pass the ball well. Or you want a more defensive player. We will know | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
soon. Rangers haven't had many injuries this season. Hibs can | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
afford just about any player to get injured, they have cover just about | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
everywhere. It's actually pretty good. I don't think Stubbsy has many | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
problems. He can change and adapt during the game to do different | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
things. I'm not sure Rangers have that to anywhere near the same | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
level. You wouldn't want Rangers to that to anywhere near the same | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
get a centre-back injured today. If you lose either full-back, it makes | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
a big difference as well. A very, very good point. No many injuries, | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
so well done to the medical staff. It might be all about the | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
preparation and physiotherapy. And the way Mark Warburton takes care of | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
the squad and organises it, he looks at everything. You have to applaud | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
him and the medical staff as well. They have to get a bit lucky, that | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
as well, but that is another thing, Hibs will be slightly more tired. If | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
it goes to extra time, Hibs will be more tired. But Rangers don't want | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
any injuries if they are going to do another half an hour. Difficult to | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
know who is in the position. I would rather have more power on the bench, | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
so that is one area where Hibs have an advantage. Let's get the teams | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
with Liam. We are just getting the team sheet now. No real surprises. | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
Rangers, listed as the home team. Martyn Waghorn plays. He featured | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
against St Mirren in the league a few weeks ago. In fact, the same | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
team as that day. When you have 28 goals, he has to start. I think so. | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
Even if he only lasts an hour, fine, then you can bring on a substitute. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
He will chop and change, with Kenny Miller moving into the middle, and | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
moving out wide. He is the top scorer, so get him on at the start | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
and see if he can do damage. If he runs out of steam, go to the bench. | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Gedion Zelalem also in from the start. We wondered who would partner | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
Anthony Stokes. Keatings did so well last week. Jason Cummings, you have | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
to play him as the top scorer, and an excellent record against Rangers. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
He is a big-time player, a confident player. 30 yards in, he will shoot. | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Hibs going with a back three. That is the formation that allowed them | :14:24. | :14:24. | |
Hibs going with a back three. That to beat Rangers in the last league | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
game at Easter Road. Alan Stubbs hoping for more of the same. So | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
close between these teams over the last couple of seasons, this is the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
biggest so far. Kick-off is fast approaching. Alan Stubbs will hope | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
today's milestone for him is significant, his 100th game as Hibs | :14:46. | :14:46. | |
manager. It looks like a back three. We know | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
Rangers are a good team. " A lot of the games they do have a chunk of | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
possession, as we do. When we have not got the ball, we want to be | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
difficult to beat. We have played with a three against them before and | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
one, and with a four. I have gone with that because it could have the | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
best chance of winning the game. What must you get right today? We | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
must get decision-making right, working together as a team, and when | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
we create chances, we have to take them. It will be the same for | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Rangers. It has got the makings of a great game. It will be exciting. It | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
Rangers. It has got the makings of a has got everything you would want | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
the Scottish Cup final to have today. Rangers have had a rest, you | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
haven't, do you expect that to have any bearing? I don't know. Whether | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
they win or lose, I would not look at that as a reason. They have known | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
about it for a while. Mark has done the best he can do with the | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
timescale in between the games. We have been going Saturday, Wednesday | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
or Sunday, Tuesday. It has kept us going. It is the first time we have | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
had a week in between games for a number of months. There has been a | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
long time for this club, is today the day? I hope so. It will be | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
fantastic if it does. But we have 90 minutes, potentially 120, to put the | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
hard-working buckle -- before we can stop thinking about that. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
It is Anthony Stokes and Jason Cummings upfront, and the back | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
three. It is Gedion Zelalem in midfield for Rangers, instead of | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Dean Shiels. Other than that, no surprises. There were very few | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
places up for discussion. Gedion Zelalem, it will be a big game, he | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
has not played a great deal, especially in the second half of the | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
season. You would expect there will be a lot of bodies in the middle. He | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
is not the most physical. It is a big part, but there will be a lot of | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
people on top of him. From Hibernian's perspective, the free at | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
the back. Liam Henderson will be devastated he is not playing, and | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
Liam Fontaine coming in. But you can understand it. Yes, but it is always | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
disappointing when good players are not starting. I tried to figure out | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
who was missing, it was between John McGinn and Liam Henderson. You need | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
players later on. One of the things you said, Hibernian have looked | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
tired at the end of some games, and Liam Henderson put everything in for | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
every single game, so maybe if you need somebody in the last half an | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
hour, that is the man you need. We thought it would be an open game, | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
but with this line-up, I don't think it will be an open game. The | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
full-backs from Rangers will come up, but with five in the back, it is | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
difficult to go forward. They know that, they don't want to step in the | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
trap. Everybody says three in the back is five at the back when you | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
lose the ball. Then you either have to or three midfielders in front of | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
that. It is difficult for Rangers to break down. They have to be careful. | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
It will be a tactical game, especially the first 45 minutes. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Don't expect too much in the first half. Hopefully, a gold will open up | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
the game. Neither team will want to lose the game early on. The | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
Hibernian full-backs, whether they play four or three, they will | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
provide the width. When they lose the ball, it will become a five. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
Even with a diamond midfield, they are expected to push high up the | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
park. That is where it becomes a tactical battle, who will get the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
best of the full-back area. It is not only that. If you have three | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
centre-backs, that says something, you are not comfortable with your | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
team defensively from free kicks and corners, and most fans know they | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
have lost a lot of goals from there. But if you get free kicks and | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
corners, you can attack, those lads might make a difference. Maybe that | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
is what they are working towards today. They have wide players who | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
can put the ball in. Some useful pre-cup final advice coming up for | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Jason Cummings, who has scored 25 goals this season, and he promises | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
so much for the future. Two other players have traded a similar path, | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
they are warning the Young pretender to stick on the straight and narrow | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
so as to not miss out on what could and should be coming his way. | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
Jason Cummings is going to have the chance to put Hibs | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
With my new barnet, I thought I would dink it. | :20:28. | :20:44. | |
It takes a special kind of player and person to do that | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
in normal time, and then do this to win a semifinal. | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
But Jason Cummings could not ever be described as ordinary, | :20:55. | :21:07. | |
and he is the latest in a line of brilliant but erratic | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Garry O'Connor scores in the Edinburgh derby! | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
What Garry O'Connor traits are in him? | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
Running in behind and shooting early. | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
He is an in-the-box player, he pops up | :21:31. | :21:44. | |
He reminds me a little bit of Sparky. | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
He was a Jambo by birth, but when Hearts released him | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
as a teenager, Hibs gave him the platform to become | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
Leigh Griffiths, Fletcher, they have all had an edge to them. | :21:59. | :22:19. | |
Some people will like that, and some people will maybe | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
The Hibernian family does not forget its own, | :22:23. | :22:37. | |
regardless of past indiscretion or promises undelivered. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
It is like a small pond, big fish in a small pond. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
When you are a football player, everything gets picked up | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
on footballers these days, but it is part and parcel of it. | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
At a young age, getting so much money, you never had | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
You go out, you buy flash motors, nice houses. | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
Maybe you should have somebody who gives | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
With the younger ones who are coming into the game, you do feel an extra | :23:15. | :23:25. | |
sense of responsibility to try and guide them along the right path. | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
The players in the dressing room have a responsibility | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
I would not have a bad word to say about Jason. | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
He is just a young lad that maybe needs to mature ever so slightly, | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
but there is not a bad bone in his body, he is a great lad | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
around the place, he is quite chirpy. | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
He keeps everyone motivated, on their toes, including the gaffer. | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
I underachieved, maybe that was off-the-field | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
I don't know how many goals I scored for Hibs, 85 goals for Hibs, | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
That fills me with pride, nobody can take that away from me. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
But I never really fulfilled my potential. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
When you are at school, you imagine playing | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
I have done it, I have played for Hibs, scored a lot | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
of goals and played for my country, so I can't ask for much | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
What would it mean for a young local striker to be the man who helps Hibs | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
As I would say to him, don't let it go to his head. | :24:46. | :24:55. | |
Be very careful, yes, because everybody will | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
It is not what he will be thinking about at the moment, but some good | :25:00. | :25:12. | |
advice in there from two who should know. They achieved great things, | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
but were left feeling frustrated they did not do more. We were just | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
chatting about them. Really nice guys. But you can safely say they | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
could have done a lot more. They have had successful careers. You | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
look at Jason Cummings, it is almost like an embodiment of them ten years | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
ago. It would be wise of him to listen to them, because they will | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
give him some good advice. He is a top talent, Jason Cummings, the | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
potential is unlimited. Hibernian breed the Centre forwards, they have | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
a lot of talent but there is something a bit missing. Leigh | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
Griffiths showed that can be overcome. He has gone further and | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
been phenomenal. The possibilities of going further there. He is a | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
talented player. I don't think he links great with Anthony Stokes. | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
That might be a difficulty for them today, but there is no doubt that | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
the players they are playing against, he will run every one of | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
them. Half an hour to kick off in the 2016 William Hill Scottish Cup | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
final, Rangers against Hibernian 's. The early arrivals taking their | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
seats. Let's get a flavour what is happening outside. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Who will score? John McGinn. I will go for Rangers winning. But you | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
never know, football is a funny game. It depends on what Rangers | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
turns up. Hibernian looking to win this one. Rangers! I do confident? | :26:53. | :27:02. | |
Yes. Rangers is on a high, we can get into Europe. Simply the best, we | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
are the people! Hibernian to win, amazing. | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
Rangers and Hibs do not need to be introduced, this is the 13th time | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
they have played in the last couple of seasons, four league meetings | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
this season, it is two victories each. | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
Deflection, Jason Cummings scores for Hibernian, | :27:31. | :28:04. | |
Anthony Stokes, Wes Foderingham has spilled it, it is two. | :28:05. | :28:54. | |
That sets up a nervous finale at Easter Road. | :28:55. | :29:17. | |
Let's talk about those four games. It tells us something about the ebb | :29:18. | :29:27. | |
and flow of the season in the division. This was way back in | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
August, the first league meeting. It was close, it took a bit of magic | :29:31. | :29:43. | |
from James Tavernier. You need players who are effective with free | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
kicks, it was a great goal. Those games are tight. It will be today | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
also, not any different. He has been a real discovery, James | :29:52. | :30:03. | |
Tavernier. Unbelievable. To score as many goals from full-back as he has, | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
he has been a real find. The outlet he gives the team, a huge success. | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
he has been a real find. The outlet Hibs won on November 1st, which was | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
important because Rangers had roared out of the blocks. Good goals. The | :30:17. | :30:24. | |
standard of goals in this tie... Long may it continue. Some absolute | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
crackers. That shows there are some talented players involved. But it | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
was incredibly tight. That game, the emotion was exceptional. Hibs | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
getting the winning goal was extraordinary. But it could have | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
gone either way, and most of the games have been like that. This was | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
the last meeting of 2015, Michael. Hibs edging into the lead going into | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
the New Year, but Rangers stamped all over them in a 4-2 win. It was a | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
massive game. Huge expectation going into it. Quite a lot of thought that | :31:03. | :31:09. | |
Hibs were going to get the upper hand. Rangers put in a performance | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
to come out on top. Pat talks about there not being a great deal between | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
the teams. It has led to two thoughtful managers trying to find | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
different ways to breakdown the opposition, which has led to Hibs | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
playing three at the back, and also to Mark Warburton trying to find the | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
way talking about to break down the opposition and make it difficult for | :31:35. | :31:43. | |
them. By this stage, Rangers had just beaten Celtic in the semifinal | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
of this competition and they had won the title and the Challenge Cup, so | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
there was maybe something of a hangover in this performance when | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
Hibs won 3-2 at Easter Road. It is amazing how often it happens, the | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
team who needs to win the game will win it. There is just the extra few | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
percent. You find a way. The thing that underlines it, I don't think | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
there is any fear of either team. There is a bit of respect. We were | :32:14. | :32:18. | |
not hearing much of that from the managers. It was Stubbsy trying to | :32:19. | :32:26. | |
have a wee wind-up. He found none from Mark Warburton. It shows they | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
like to slug it out. Hibs win that one. OK, they lost a late goal. Once | :32:33. | :32:39. | |
again Hibs could find themselves in a position they have done many | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
times, losing late goals, but it has settled down to a real respect | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
between the sides. One player who did not score in any of those games, | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
maybe today might be his day, a player who has played for both | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
clubs- Kenny Miller. 36 and still doing it after all these years. If | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
you keep away from big injuries, you can go a long way. If you keep | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
yourself fit, you can still reach a decent level. Kenny came when I was | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
there, he scored five times in one game. Against St Mirren? Yes. He has | :33:15. | :33:23. | |
always the pace. What I like about him, before it was only pace, | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
running. Now, his runs are always spot on. The right moment to | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
accelerate. And be on time. The experience he brings... He is so | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
clever now with all of those years behind him. A great asset for this | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
young team. He has got better in the course of this season. He was | :33:47. | :33:48. | |
missing chances earlier on, he course of this season. He was | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
hasn't missed many lately. He wasn't playing every week. Since they had | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
injuries, Kenny has had to step up to the plate and he has. He has had | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
to adapt his game at this stage of his career. He gives a good balance. | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
A lot of the young Rangers players. He has the legs and energy about | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
him, whereas he can pick and choose. He realises when he needs to put the | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
afterburners on. That is experience, and he uses it to his advantage. A | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
year ago, Mark Warburton might have seemed an unlikely candidate for | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
Rangers manager, but the last 12 months he has delivered in style. A | :34:34. | :34:36. | |
Londoner who step out of football for a spell as a city trader. He has | :34:37. | :34:43. | |
Lamont has dug into his background. Lamont has dug into his background. | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
-- Alasdair Lamont. Griffin Park, the West London | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
home of the English This is where Mark Warburton came | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
to make a name for himself as a football manager, | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
but his formative years were spent in altogether more | :35:00. | :35:00. | |
humble surroundings. Mark came from Enfield, | :35:01. | :35:11. | |
who were a big club back then. He won the Trophy with them | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
and came here. He played about 105 | :35:16. | :35:18. | |
games, maybe a few more. He would not like me to tell | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
you how limited he was, but he would tell you more about his | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
Leicester City youth career. If you know Mark, he will | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
be wherever he goes. He went out the game, | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
he went into the City. What differentiated Mark | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
from the average trader was his networking skills, | :35:43. | :35:51. | |
he was very good with people, he had the ability to make | :35:52. | :35:53. | |
people feel very special, When you are managing risk | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
and currency, you have to be He had the correct appetite | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
for whatever bank he worked He was studying for the Uefa A badge | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
in his spare time, but as soon as he finished in the office, | :36:08. | :36:14. | |
he would go on to train for whatever When we parted company in 2004 | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
he was with Watford. Everybody would like to | :36:19. | :36:28. | |
have the opportunity to do that, but we don't | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
have the talent, and he had that. Having cut his coaching teeth | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
as part of Watford's youth academy, his big break came in February 2011, | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
the Brentford owner invited him to become part | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
of the coaching setup here. That summer he was made sporting | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
director to work alongside We shared the same vision, | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
but sometimes we had We discussed them honestly. | :36:55. | :37:02. | |
I did not need a yes man. I needed somebody who honestly | :37:03. | :37:09. | |
gives me his opinion. We had a lot of discussions | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
with agents, contract negotiations, and I felt at some point his | :37:13. | :37:19. | |
desire was changing more to go back to the grass | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
and I completely understood that. Because of the work we did, | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
we got recognised by other clubs. He got an offer from | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
a Premier League club in the sporting-director role, | :37:33. | :37:35. | |
he was honest with me, I got offered several chances | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
in the Championship. When I left for Wigan Athletic, | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
he knew he had a good chance to get I recommended him to the owner, | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
he asked me at the time, he was a natural choice | :37:48. | :37:54. | |
to put him in place, Mark played a big part | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
of the success of Brentford. Last year, there was a parting | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
of the ways. Mark decided that his view | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
of the future and the club's He was not out of work | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
for long, because in June He has embraced it very well. | :38:15. | :38:23. | |
It is a fantastic city. It was quite a surprise, | :38:24. | :38:29. | |
a long way from home. I followed him and my ex-players, | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
James Tavernier, Rob Kiernan, Martyn Waghorn, and I am happy that | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
Rangers is back in the big time. And the way they play football, | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
that is also very important for him. They are not going to overturn | :38:43. | :38:49. | |
Celtic's dominance in ten minutes, there is catching up to do, | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
but he will know that. The first job is to keep | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
closing the gap. He did that this year, | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
you could see that in the semifinal. Going into an Old Firm derby | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
and getting them to produce To be fair, they were the better | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
side from the opening minutes. He has kept in touch with the people | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
who used to work with. Half of the city now | :39:17. | :39:26. | |
looks at Rangers' result. That is the mark of the man, | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
very personable. The day he will leave Rangers, | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
he will leave a talented squad with a lot of quality, | :39:34. | :39:36. | |
with a lot of value. Everywhere he has gone, | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
he has improved where he has been. In such a short time, | :39:42. | :39:49. | |
he has even surprised himself, but his passion, ability, | :39:50. | :39:53. | |
knowledge of football and how he handles people, | :39:54. | :39:56. | |
it did not surprise me. I don't think he will stop here. | :39:57. | :39:59. | |
He can achieve much more. It's always good if someone says | :40:00. | :40:16. | |
that about you. Everywhere he is gone, he's improved, Mark Warburton. | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
12 months ago, you would not have had a clue who he was. Nor did we. | :40:20. | :40:27. | |
When Ajax played Celtic here, I went to the training ground and I heard | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
from the older people there for many years, they said, such a change | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
football-wise. Like modern football. He brought it in. All credit to him. | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
I don't think his venture into the real world, whether the City is the | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
real world, but risk management... Being out of football does not seem | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
to have done him any harm. Sometimes it gives you a reality check to see | :40:56. | :40:58. | |
what the normal world is like, although as you say it is not the | :40:59. | :41:04. | |
normal world. Yes, good football, fine, good players, great, but the | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
way he has coped with being the Rangers manager is really | :41:10. | :41:12. | |
impressive. He has been prodded and poked a few times, which happens | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
with other managers, the press, whatever. You are under massive | :41:17. | :41:19. | |
pressure, and he was under huge pressure to make sure the team got | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
up. But he very rarely seems flustered, he copes incredibly well. | :41:25. | :41:28. | |
If you listen to Gordon Strachan, Walter Smith, they always say the | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
same thing- you never know what pressure is until you actually see | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
this and feel it. He has coped with it. It will be harder next year. I | :41:39. | :41:45. | |
would imagine that having David Weir alongside him would add some | :41:46. | :41:52. | |
calmness. Weir cannot spell panic! It is just the fact he is a balanced | :41:53. | :42:00. | |
guy, quite chilled out. People on camera talking about how he is a | :42:01. | :42:03. | |
good people person, he handles people when. -- people well. Robbie | :42:04. | :42:12. | |
Neilson was on loan at Brentford and he spoke about Mark Warburton and | :42:13. | :42:15. | |
always said what a great character he was. He handled the ball well. | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
Didn't know much about him as a coach, but he said he was a really | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
good man manager. That is one of the most important things as a manager, | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
dealing with people. We are talking about people on the training ground. | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
They have a good feeling off him and he has created a good atmosphere at | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
Rangers. Influential in the tactics, sometimes you need a people manager | :42:40. | :42:42. | |
and sometimes someone else who is technical. I rate David Weir quite | :42:43. | :42:51. | |
high in that aspect. Is he making a point in only naming | :42:52. | :42:53. | |
high in that aspect. Is he making a substitutes today? Yes, it's a | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
shocker. You have plenty of kids, you could throw them on and give | :42:59. | :42:59. | |
shocker. You have plenty of kids, them a bit of experience. But only | :43:00. | :43:06. | |
five substitutes... Hibs have got the full complement. Possibly the | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
point being made to the owners and the people to put money in, we need | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
more players here. He didn't have much options... Yes, but put some | :43:19. | :43:25. | |
kids on the bench. He is probably saying, get me Joey Barton, would | :43:26. | :43:33. | |
you? A memo to the board. He did it in the semifinal, he did not fill | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
the bench. It's a clear sign, they are stepping up to the Premiership, | :43:40. | :43:42. | |
they need reinforcement. We are going to go back outside to Jane. | :43:43. | :43:49. | |
Soon. In the meantime, Anthony Stokes returning to Hibs on loan | :43:50. | :43:55. | |
from Celtic, and it hasn't been the victory procession he was hoping | :43:56. | :43:58. | |
for. Second prize in the League Cup final and missing out on promotion | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
were not part of the plan. He is hoping for third time lucky at | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
Hampden to give the Hibs fans something smile about. | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
Anthony Stokes with the opening goal. | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
I would like to have scored more goals, but I have felt like the last | :44:16. | :44:27. | |
six or seven games my performances were becoming more consistent. | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
If I was not scoring goals, I was assisting or in some way | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
contributing to the team, and my fitness levels got better. | :44:37. | :44:41. | |
It has been difficult, because at the end of the day | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
in my head I had it set that I wanted to get Hibernian | :44:45. | :44:47. | |
back up and help as much as I possibly could. | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
It has not happened, so it has not been everything I wanted. | :44:51. | :44:53. | |
But if we lift the Cup, it will take a bit of the hurt away. | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
It is something the fans have been striving for for a long time. | :45:00. | :45:02. | |
It will be a nice way to wrap up the season and give them | :45:03. | :45:05. | |
For only the second time in four seasons | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
There have been social-media suggestions you might have been keen | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
I have always been a Celtic fan since I was a kid, | :45:16. | :45:22. | |
Even if it meant missing out on the final? | :45:23. | :45:28. | |
He makes a real mess of that penalty, and Rangers have pulled off | :45:29. | :45:36. | |
Once Rangers got over the line, you need to get focused that | :45:37. | :45:44. | |
I am delighted to be going to Hampden Park | :45:45. | :45:47. | |
with Hibernian, to be involved in the game. | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
Frustration boiling over, he rarely gets a look in these days. | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
I was at Celtic for four or five months, I knew I would not be | :45:58. | :46:00. | |
It did not matter what I did in training. | :46:01. | :46:03. | |
At that stage I was pressing to go out on loan. | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
The manager either fancies you or doesn't. | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
Myself and Ronny Deila, I played reasonably well | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
Then we got to the stage where we both knew it would not work. | :46:16. | :46:22. | |
I have no hard feelings, I do not hold grudges. | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
Playing one up front against Partick Thistle was not | :46:29. | :46:31. | |
ideal, but he is the manager, you respect his decision. | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
Every selection he makes, you have to do that. | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
I think I am good enough to be in the team. | :46:43. | :46:44. | |
I will just have to wait and see what happens with Celtic, | :46:45. | :46:47. | |
Wes Foderingham has spilled it, it is two. | :46:48. | :46:59. | |
I have enjoyed my time here, it is one of the reasons I came | :47:00. | :47:02. | |
back, because I enjoyed the first spell. | :47:03. | :47:05. | |
The coaching staff have been amazing. | :47:06. | :47:07. | |
If we play to our capabilities we can beat Rangers. | :47:08. | :47:15. | |
If they are on it and we are on it it will make for an exciting game. | :47:16. | :47:24. | |
I am disappointed we were not able to get over the line | :47:25. | :47:26. | |
But come Saturday, hopefully we can lift the Cup and take a bit | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
He is keen that his loan spell has a happy ending. A big player, has he | :47:32. | :47:53. | |
had the right sort of influence since his arrival, or has he | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
disrupted things by having to fit him in the? It is difficult to say | :47:58. | :48:04. | |
he has disrupted it, but he has not had the expected impact. He was a | :48:05. | :48:11. | |
big coup for him to go from Celtic. On the face of it, you thought him | :48:12. | :48:14. | |
and Jason Cummings would be a deadly duo that would cause problems, but | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
it has not happened. They have not had a partnership. He is isolated, | :48:21. | :48:29. | |
one on one. That is the problem. He drifts into Derek Rydan's inside | :48:30. | :48:36. | |
left position, there is no partnership between them. There have | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
been moments of quality, but they are few and far between. You want | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
them in the box, because he is a great goal-scorer. He has scored a | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
few goals this season, but that is what he was bought for. Anthony | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
Stokes was bought in the hope they would kick on. You cannot say they | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
have done that. They have done about as well, maybe slightly better in | :49:02. | :49:08. | |
the second part of the season. But he has got quality. Now and again, | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
he has something special. If he scores the winning goal from a bit | :49:15. | :49:20. | |
of brilliance today, he has been a phenomenal signing! Sometimes you | :49:21. | :49:28. | |
come to a team and you think, I am the man, you want to show off a bit | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
and be everywhere. You forget what you are good at, around the box. | :49:34. | :49:45. | |
Sometimes you forget that. No Liam Henderson, will that be a decision | :49:46. | :49:48. | |
Alan Stubbs might regret? He is on the bench, but it might be too late. | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
Rangers scoring the first goal will make it incredibly difficult for | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
Hibernian to get back into it, but if you have somebody like Liam | :50:01. | :50:07. | |
Henderson, the adaptation back into a diamond, that might give them a | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
lift. He will have thought of that. Henderson has done nothing wrong. It | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
is purely tactical. You do feel sorry for him. If you look at Fraser | :50:18. | :50:25. | |
Fyvie, he has not had as good a season. There is a lot of sense, | :50:26. | :50:33. | |
this is a keen to -- 18 to keep it steady to start with. You have | :50:34. | :50:40. | |
mentioned Fraser Fyvie, you could easily have the lunar geek in the | :50:41. | :50:44. | |
middle of the park and Liam Henderson linking up. Fraser Fyvie, | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
he is clearly a good player, but I don't think he has the influence | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
that he should have. That is where the manager has a decision to make. | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
I would rather see Henderson in the side. We touched on Kenny Miller | :51:00. | :51:06. | |
earlier, here is an example of how he shows his match intelligence. | :51:07. | :51:14. | |
It is instinct. You know that the ball is coming. There is a bit of | :51:15. | :51:27. | |
luck, but remember that I saw for him, he would never have done this | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
when he was young. He would have gone to the ball to leave. He knows | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
where he once said. Coming free from his opponent at the | :51:36. | :51:51. | |
right time. He was quite lethal. It is not luck when somebody finds | :51:52. | :51:53. | |
themselves in the right position. That is instinct. It is years of | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
experience of getting into the right areas at the right time. Goals like | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
this are fantastic, he has always been capable. I would ask, is he a | :52:05. | :52:11. | |
better footballer now that he has ever been? I would almost say yes. | :52:12. | :52:20. | |
The amount of top layers that get to a level at 25, 26 and a I have got | :52:21. | :52:27. | |
their and stay static and fade away, because it is fitness them, but he | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
gets better and better. More intelligence every year. He is a joy | :52:31. | :52:39. | |
to watch. So many miracle stories, it is stunning what he has done. How | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
significant it could Rangers' inactivity be? They have not played | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
competitively for three weeks. It is a factor. I remember when we won the | :52:49. | :52:57. | |
league when we played them the, we went to Marbella to relaxed for four | :52:58. | :53:04. | |
days or three days, because they's we still had ten days to prepare. We | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
struggled to come into the game. It could be a problem for Rangers. | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
Hibernian want to rid themselves of this Hampden Park memory. The League | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
Cup final when they were here, they lost Ross County. The pain of the | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
promotion chance missed. They will want to exorcise the Demons of this | :53:28. | :53:35. | |
one. They lost out on silverware already. An amazing achievement to | :53:36. | :53:38. | |
get to two cup finals, but to lose them both would be so painful. Yes. | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
When you couple it with failing to win promotion, it would be a tough | :53:45. | :53:47. | |
pill to swallow for them as a club and the support. You look at the big | :53:48. | :53:55. | |
games, the Falkirk games, and this game, small margins. It is not as if | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
they have not turned up and performed badly. They have stepped | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
up and good performances, they have just not been able to see it | :54:05. | :54:08. | |
through. They have another opportunity today. If they could win | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
this today, it would be a good tonic for them. They do not want the | :54:13. | :54:24. | |
horror hat-trick. Nobody has spoken about Twente. It has been about | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
small margins will stop you look at the full cocaine, Kris Commons | :54:30. | :54:37. | |
smacks the crossbar -- the Falkirk game. There was a team going for it | :54:38. | :54:44. | |
and a team that got unlucky. Will it level at today? Goodness knows of. | :54:45. | :54:51. | |
You have to make your own luck. There is the trophy being paraded | :54:52. | :54:59. | |
around the ground. Rangers are going for their third piece of silverware | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
of the season. They won the championship and the Challenge Cup. | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
Can they get the Scottish Cup and Europe as well? Tony Higgins | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
enjoying the moment. Who is your money on? As an ex-Rangers player, I | :55:15. | :55:21. | |
have to say Rangers. It will be tight and difficult. Maybe I am | :55:22. | :55:35. | |
wrong, maybe 1-0, Rangers. A couple of weeks ago I had a feeling that | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
Hibernian would do it. Now I think Rangers are slight favourites. But | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
Alan Stubbs said it has the ingredients to be a classic, I think | :55:45. | :55:48. | |
it could go to extra time. Rangers narrowly for me. It is about three | :55:49. | :55:54. | |
in a row. I would not be surprised with extra time, anything could | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
happen then. But you cannot see anything other than Rangers winning, | :56:00. | :56:03. | |
they are the shadow -- they are the favourites, without a shadow of a | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
doubt. The teams assembling in the tunnel for the 2016 Scottish Cup | :56:09. | :56:12. | |
final. How are Hibernian fans feeling? It will be tense in among | :56:13. | :56:18. | |
the Hibernian support, hoping that the pain can lead to some joy in the | :56:19. | :56:25. | |
Scottish Cup final. Mark Warburton and Alan Stubbs prepared to lead out | :56:26. | :56:28. | |
the teams. Let's head to the match action with Craig Paterson and Ian | :56:29. | :56:31. | |
McLeod. Good afternoon, the build-up just | :56:32. | :56:43. | |
about done and dusted. Rangers and Hibernian have become regular foes | :56:44. | :56:46. | |
over the past couple of years, and the latest and final chapter that | :56:47. | :56:49. | |
will be written of this current series is the grandest of all. This | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
is the 13th meeting since two of Scotland's biggest clubs were set on | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
a Championship collision course, they have won six each since chapter | :57:03. | :57:06. | |
one was written. There does not appear to be much between them. But | :57:07. | :57:08. | |
something has to give today. Hibernian's failure to join Rangers | :57:09. | :57:28. | |
in the top flight will be felt in the coming months. For today, it is | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
all about wiping away the pain, ridicule and taunting, especially | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
the inner-city division, as the years have piled up without the | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
Scottish Cup. 114 now. It is such an Achilles heel, such a millstone for | :57:47. | :57:48. | |
the older Hibernian fans in Achilles heel, such a millstone for | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
particular. Some would have taken victory today ahead of promotion | :57:54. | :57:57. | |
back to the top league. It is all they are left with now for this | :57:58. | :58:00. | |
season at least. Rangers have been idle for three weeks, they were not | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
exactly in Bloom for the end of the league season. They sealed the title | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
with four games to spare. But they have not won a game since beating | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
Celtic in the frantic, frenetic semifinal here last month. Will | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
losing the winning feeling cost them today as it did in 1994, when they | :58:20. | :58:26. | |
lost it and begin I did? They were without a victory in their last | :58:27. | :58:36. | |
five. Dominic Ball is suspended, so Gedion Zelalem plays from the start. | :58:37. | :58:40. | |
Nine of them began the semifinal. Martyn Waghorn bolsters B-side. He | :58:41. | :58:47. | |
returns from injury just in time. Kenny Miller has won this twice, | :58:48. | :58:50. | |
once with Rangers and once with Celtic. Barrie McKay is in the form | :58:51. | :58:59. | |
of his life. Jason Cummings is restored to the Hibernian starting | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
XI, he has eight goals in his last ten appearances against Rangers. | :59:04. | :59:09. | |
Backing him to school is like printing money, he says. Will he | :59:10. | :59:13. | |
have the Midas touch this afternoon? Calum Logan was the semifinal hero, | :59:14. | :59:23. | |
Dylan the geek is fit and starts. -- Dylan McGeouch. James Keatings | :59:24. | :59:31. | |
scored twice against Falkirk in the play-off. Rangers list just five | :59:32. | :59:35. | |
substitutes, but that did not do them any harm in the last round. | :59:36. | :59:42. | |
The referee for the big one is Stephen Maclean. The 35-year-old has | :59:43. | :59:49. | |
described this as the pinnacle of his career as he takes charge of the | :59:50. | :59:52. | |
Scottish Cup final for the very first time. He has taken charge of | :59:53. | :00:00. | |
the League Cup final before, though. Jason Cummings, there. 25 goals this | :00:01. | :00:07. | |
season. Preferred to Keatings today. Hasn't really got that partnership | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
with Anthony Stokes working as the pair would like, as yet. This would | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
be some stage to get that started. Kenny Miller has been there, seen | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
it, Dummett. He'll be hoping to do it again today -- done it. 36 years | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
of age, Kenny Miller. 37 in December. Still such an important | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
player for this Rangers side. The formalities just about complete. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Lovely day on Glasgow's south side, for a game of football. And it is | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
one of the biggest games of Footballer of the Year. The 131st | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
Scottish Cup final. Despite the clubs involved, for the first time, | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
being contested by two teams outside of Scotland's top league. We know we | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
will have a lower league winner for the first time since East Fife | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
lifted it in 1938. Rangers shooting East in this first half in the blue, | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
Hibs in the green and white. The second time Rangers and Hibs side | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
have clashed in the Scottish Cup final. The other one in 79 went to | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
not one, but two replays. Two goalless draws followed by a 3-2 | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Rangers win at the end of an epic that required extra time. The cup | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
went to Ibrox. Paterson has played for both these teams, won the | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Scottish Cup as well, and is well placed to tell us how this might go. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
I have absolutely no idea and it could be penalties. These teams are | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
so evenly matched. That's an early challenge for Anthony Stokes. The | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
referee doesn't want to start dishing out yellow cards at this | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
stage, but Stokes must be careful. One more of those and he will be on | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
a yellow and then he will be walking a tightrope. 2009 was the last time | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
the Scottish Cup went to Ibrox. This is the first chance for the rages | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
supporters to witness wannabes finals since -- the Rangers | :02:26. | :02:26. | |
supporters. Had some refurbishment since the | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
oldest trophy visited that particular part of the capital. No | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
matter who wins, it will be the fifth new Victor of the tournament | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
for the first time since the 1950s. Then it was Hearts, Falkirk, Celtic, | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
Rangers and Hibs. There's a few challenges rattling in | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
early doors. That's what you want to see, isn't it? If the referee can | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
see the challenge is genuine, player going for the ball, he lets it go. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
For me it just adds a little bit more to the contest. Kenny Miller to | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
McGeouch, who went off injured. It has been an injury ravaged season. | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
Here is Martyn Waghorn. Instant impact this season. | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
Four games against Rangers Alan Stubbs does tend to set the side up | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
the way he has today. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Here is | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
Cummings for Stokes. Hasn't really got anyone to hit in the middle, | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
Stokes might fancy it himself, and he does! And why not? Is it on? Is | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
it on? Hibs lead the Scottish Cup final! What a start. It is a finish | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
from Stokes, but I tell you what, it just seemed far too easy. The | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
referee plays a good advantage. The referee could have given a free | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
kick, you says play on. Anthony Stokes just drives into the box | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
coming he's not con fronted, and he knocks it by the goalkeeper into the | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
bottom corner. It's poor, poor defending, but I'll tell you what, | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
it's exactly the start Hibs were looking. Like Anthony Stokes, who is | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
on loan from Celtic, put civilian in front in the Scottish Cup final. -- | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
puts Hibs in front. The stuff that dreams are made of. A goal on three | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
minutes. And Alan Stubbs could scarcely have dreamt of a better | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
start last night when he went to his bed. He's come under fire now and | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
again, has Stokes, since he made the loan switch in the winter. While he | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
hasn't set the heather on fire, if he helps win the Scottish Cup for | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Hibs, nobody in green and white will give a jot about that. It's his | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
eighth goal of the season, his third, all told, against Rangers. He | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
did not score for Celtic against Rangers. All of them have come in | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
the green and white of Hibernian. It's a massive shot in the arm for | :05:40. | :05:52. | |
Hibs. They were talking about it beforehand, if they had a hope of | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
winning the trophy today, it was they who would have to score first. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
Well, they have done. Certainly a major bonus. I think both managers | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
realise the importance of getting the first goal, and then you set the | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
tempo of the game. The opposition have to push forward to try to get | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
an equaliser and that leaves them open for the counterattack. Exciting | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
period of play for Hibs. Mark Warburton will be seizing the nature | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
of that strike. Stokes just meandered his way through the | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
defence -- Mark Warburton will be seething. But he takes it with | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
aplomb. The defender does not come across and confront him. As you say, | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
dream start for Hibs. Remember they have not played a competitive match | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
the three weeks. Hibs on the other hand has been playing | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
ultracompetitive matches. So you have two sides of the coin, Hibs | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
could be tired, but Rangers perhaps not at the races as a result of | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
that. People will say Rangers have not come out of the blocks quick | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
enough. It was a decent finish but really poor defending by Rangers. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Not something they've been guilty of often this season. Ten finals in the | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
Scottish Cup in a row that Hibs have lost. Jason Cummings is capable from | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
there. He was the Rangers Player of the | :07:25. | :07:53. | |
Year last season, McGregor. The Hibs fans are making some noise. | :07:54. | :08:11. | |
Understandably so. Here is Andy Halliday. | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
Well, immediately in the semifinal, they just got at Celtic. They | :08:20. | :08:32. | |
haven't been able to do this today. Hibs are going to drop off the game, | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
when Rangers have possession they will allow them to keep the ball in | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
front of them, but the minute they had the ball, the back three became | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
a back five with Lewis Stevenson on the left. Leaving very little room | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
for the Rangers forward to work their way through. The long ball | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
easily dealt with by Fontaine. Stevenson beats Waghorn to it. | :08:55. | :09:10. | |
Danny Wilson sold Kenny Miller a bit short, there. Gray wins it back for | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
Hibs, and gets it back from Cummings. Stokes has made an early | :09:18. | :09:27. | |
run into the box. David Gray started his career as a winner. I thought he | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
was going to go to the byline, take the last defender on, and dive into | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
this challenge -- started his career as winger. It's not a booking, is | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
it? No yellow card. The last team to lose the Scottish Cup final when | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
taking the lead was Dunfermline in 2004. It was Henrik Larsson's last | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
game to Celtic. Celtic lifted the trophy. But the team that has scored | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
first in the Scottish Cup final since, has won the trophy. It's Paul | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
Hanlon. Stalwart of this Easter Road club. Here is another, in Lewis | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
Stevenson. He's looking for Cummings, who is going to get there, | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
he's on his own, so was Stokes earlier, though. Not quite. That's | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
another chance for Hibs. Jason Cummings gets himself into the box. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
Robert Kiernan does not get there, Cummings drags it back, maybe should | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
have pulled the trigger slightly earlier. Rangers crowd him out, it | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
comes back to Anthony Stokes, he misses the target. That was the | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
fastest Scottish Cup final since Colin Cameron scored against Rangers | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
at Celtic Park in 98. Last time Rangers lost a Scottish Cup final, | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
as the corner came in and there was a shout for handball... Really | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
important period for Rangers. They will not want to concede against PLO | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
they need to retain the composure they have been showing. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
They need to retain the composure they have been showing since the | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
start of the season. Their strength is passing the ball. Which they are | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
doing, here. Miller to Zelalem, on loan from Arsenal. Barrie McKay | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
scored a wonder goal against Hibs just after his wonder goal against | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Celtic in the semifinal. Here is Kenny Miller. Tavernier. Overhit | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
set. That's the problem, wide areas. Jason Holt, the only player in the | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
box. He's not going to win too many headers. Go, what a pass from | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
Stokes, here is Cummings. Wilson does enough. Sumptuous ball from | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
Stokes. Terrific ball, and great defending from Danny Wilson. He knew | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
it was one-on-one, is Cummings gets clear, he is through on goal. He | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
stood his ground and saw it off. We did wonder whether Hibs would be up | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
for it today. Such a downer of a week having missed out on a motion | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
in the play-offs, losing the League Cup final couple of months back. -- | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
lost out on promotion. Jason Holt has won a free kick as well. I think | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Paul Hanlon makes the initial mistake, tries to rectify it. Gets | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
there as quick as he can, but the mistake, tries to rectify it. Gets | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
minute Jason Holt gets the crossing, any kind of contact and the referee | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
is going to give a free kick. It's been a troubled opening 11 and a | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
half minutes for Rangers, but it could be wiped away here. We know | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
how good James Tavernier is from this kind of situation. He might | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
have preferred it on the other side of the box. First nervy time for | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
Conrad Logan. Slightly awkward as well. Could go one side or the | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
other. It is going to be Halliday. A roar of relief from the Hibs fans. | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
Zelalem to Holt. Helped hearts to the title last year. Overhit by | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
Danny Wilson. That's April free kick, isn't it? Flick on, there. | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
Head commonly, impossible for James Tavernier to know where that ball | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
was going to hit him -- head, knee. Stokes has made his way to the edge | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
of the technical area for the first time. | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
-- Alan Stubbs has made his way to the edge of the technical area. His | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
future is up in the air, it would seem. | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
Miller. Zelalem. First time for Barrie McKay, he was looking for | :14:19. | :14:32. | |
Miller. Very difficult to work your way down | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
the central area because Hibs have so many green jersies behind the | :14:40. | :14:40. | |
ball. He didn't win the Scottish Cup with | :14:41. | :14:55. | |
Celtic, Alan Stubbs. He did win the League Cup, and a title as well. | :14:56. | :15:24. | |
It came off the Rangers defender so he was onside. He tried to take it | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
early. He is trying to lob that over the goalkeeper. | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Hibs' two wins against Rangers this season came at Easter Road. Though | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
they did lose in the Challenge Cup at the start of the season, way back | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
last July. 6-2 for Rangers, who get their first corner of the afternoon | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
here. Rangers normally take them short, and here we go again. Zelalem | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
to Tavernier. Certainly capable from that kind of | :15:57. | :16:08. | |
distance, Andy Halliday. He doesn't get enough on it. It's a poor | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
strike. Usually better than that. Mark Warburton is Scotland's manager | :16:12. | :16:29. | |
of the year. That was announced a couple of weeks ago. Plenty to think | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
about now. He will trust his couple of weeks ago. Plenty to think | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
players. They have come from behind. They know how to get the job done. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
He also know this is is a final. A big opportunity, especially with | :16:41. | :16:41. | |
European football up for grabs. John McGinn, who, when Hibs beat | :16:42. | :17:16. | |
Rangers at Easter Road, was exceptional. Stokes has space again. | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
He is going to take on Kiernan again. Cummings. | :17:20. | :17:29. | |
Rangers will have to chase the game at some point. It is probably too | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
early to start thinking about that now. They would love to level it up | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
as soon as possible. When you have players the quality of Anthony | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Stokes and Jason Cummings, who can do you harm, you have to be very | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
careful. Watch Anthony Stokes the minute James Tavernier bombs | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
forward, he comes out into this wide-left area, there is a big hole | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
there and every time he gets on the ball he is driving at Rob Kiernan in | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
that central defensive area. Stokes looks in the mood. | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
He wouldn't have been able to play today if Celtic had beaten Rangers | :18:07. | :18:16. | |
in the semis. An incredible statistic came from that semifinal, | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Rangers had 63% of the possession against Celtic. | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
That was easy for Logan. Once again, Hibs have so many bodies. There is a | :18:27. | :18:43. | |
swarm in there and it is going to take a pinpoint pass to break them | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
down. Tavernier gets the better of John McGinn. | :18:50. | :19:11. | |
If you are joining us late, Anthony Stokes with a goal on three minutes. | :19:12. | :19:23. | |
Hibernian lead the 131st Scottish Cup Final. | :19:24. | :19:33. | |
113 Scottish Cup Finals have gone past since they last won it. | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
Barrie McKay is in the Scotland squad for the end-of-season | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
friendlies, so too Lee Wallace. That was not a great ball. Stokes. | :19:49. | :20:23. | |
Still in there. Lee Wallace nips in ahead of Cummings. Rangers do not | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
look easy at the back. They are all over the place just now, playing | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
balls across their own box and inviting pressure. | :20:32. | :21:38. | |
You are 1-0 ahead, you need to start dictating the pace of the game. | :21:39. | :22:22. | |
John McGinn made his international debut here for Scotland against | :22:23. | :22:41. | |
Denmark a couple of months ago and he was Man of the Match. Hibs, of | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
course, consigned to another season in the Championship. That will be | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
made all the easier if they can lift the Cup today. | :22:56. | :23:30. | |
That's a half-decent effort, but winning the ball, driving at the | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
Rangers defence, gets caught under his feet, goes for a chip and it is | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
on the top of the net. After that challenge that we spoke about, Mark | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
Warburton sprinted out of his dug-out to remonstrate with his | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
players to get into the battle, fight their way into this game. | :23:54. | :24:16. | |
Rangers off the pace, Craig? They seem to be. The early goal doesn't | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
help. Then they started playing the ball back to front, which doesn't | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
suit them. It is about Andy Halliday getting on the ball, players like | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
that, to start to dictate the game. Rangers need to up the pace a little | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
bit. Lee Wallace has been a major part in | :24:33. | :25:02. | |
the journey that Rangers have been on for the last four years. | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
Jason Holt has managed 12 goals this season. Andy Halliday is knocking on | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
the door of double figures, too. It's not just been Waghorn who has | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
been finding the net. Kenny Miller has 20. Waghorn has 28. When your | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
full-backs have got nearly 20 between them, that shows you what a | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
weapon they are. Hibs knew that at the start of the game. The back | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
three is designed to stop Tavernier and Wallace bombing on and causing | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
you all sorts of problems. Tavernier has 15, Wallace has 9. Halliday has | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
9. Holt 12. McKay 9. 20 and 28 for Miller and Waghorn respectively. | :25:57. | :25:57. | |
That's some return. 25 minutes in to the final. Anthony | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
Stokes' goal is the difference. I think he tried to hold, but he | :26:07. | :26:36. | |
just went slightly too early. Lewis Stevenson knocks it forward and you | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
can see in the cut of the pitch, he is just the wrong side of the | :26:40. | :26:40. | |
Rangers defence. When Rangers start to build from the | :26:41. | :27:22. | |
back, look how close Fraser Fyvie gets to Andy Halliday. They are | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
trying to keep him out of the equation. | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
It's opened up a bit for McKay. Waghorn. | :27:33. | :27:46. | |
The ball in is good. It is Kenny Miller. It is 1-1 in the final. | :27:47. | :27:57. | |
Rangers' Mr Dependable does it again! It is a great header from | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
Kenny Miller. The ball in from Tavernier is an absolute peach. When | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
you don't have big strikers, you have to fizz the ball in there. That | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
is a beauty. That is a belter of a header. Conrad Logan, he dives, but | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
he has no chance of getting there. A quality cross. Brilliant header. | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
Kenny Miller does what he does and what he's been doing for years! For | :28:24. | :28:32. | |
club and country. It's a tremendous header, but it was all about the | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
ball in from James Tavernier. As you say, Craig. It is Kenny Miller | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
against Darren McGregor at the back post, you would fancy McGregor, but | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
the quality of the ball, Miller is on the run, he is up early, holds | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
down McGregor, and what a finish. Came at a really good time. There is | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
never a bad time to score in a Scottish Cup Final. Rangers had seen | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
more of the ball and it was important, from their point of view, | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
that they took advantage of that, and they have. Stokes. Up the other | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
end. What an effort! He's so unlucky. Hibs were almost back in | :29:06. | :29:14. | |
front. This is turning into an incredible game. Stokes... What a | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
hit! Beats the goalkeeper. How unlucky is that? Cracks off the | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
post, spins out. A magnificent effort. His manager can't believe | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
it. The width of Wes Foderingham's post | :29:30. | :29:40. | |
has saved Rangers, having just got themselves level. Set up nicely | :29:41. | :29:47. | |
here. Not even on the half-hour mark, yet. Cummings gives chase, but | :29:48. | :29:55. | |
he's offside again. Now, what is the Hibs reaction? We got a taste of it | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
there, with the effort from Stokes. What a ball in. Great effort from | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
Kenny Miller. Got to be brave to come in, there. The manager is a | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
happy man. His team have not started well, now they've got themselves | :30:11. | :30:17. | |
right back in the game. Miller, who scored in the semi, looking for a | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
third Scottish Cup winners medal. Having picked up one either side of | :30:23. | :30:33. | |
the great Glasgow divide. Not sure how well that smoke bomb is going to | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
go down with the authorities. Lewis Stevenson who has stunned | :30:37. | :30:55. | |
Brealey to keep it in play. -- done brilliantly to keep it in play. Man | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
of the Match in the League Cup final as a teenager, Alan Stubbs with | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
Kevin Thomson just in front, a player coach, these days. Back at | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
Hibs for the third time. Of course he won the Scottish Cup with Rangers | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
in 2008. Cummings, he is looking to Stokes. Not many are beating Lee | :31:19. | :31:26. | |
Wallace for pace, though. Took a great position, Lee Wallace, saw the | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
danger, tucked in behind his centre-backs. | :31:30. | :31:40. | |
He's a big game player, Kenny Miller. His last international match | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
was against England at Wembley. He scored a terrific goal, that time. | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
Called time on his international career thereafter. 69 caps and 18 | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
goals. But so often in derby matches, big cup ties, and this big | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
final, he has stepped up when it matters. He may be 36 but he plays | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
as if he's years younger. He has an energy and an appetite for the game. | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
Being a coach, you want to lead by example, and that's exactly what he | :32:11. | :32:19. | |
does. Zelalem. For Waghorn, who's going to get there. Only just. His | :32:20. | :32:29. | |
bonus is a corner kick. I wonder if Rangers will stick this one in the | :32:30. | :32:36. | |
mixture for a change. They like to play it short. Danny Wilson going | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
forward, he would certainly be the main target. It may well be a day | :32:42. | :32:48. | |
for simplicity. Rob Kiernan is going there as well. Normally he doesn't | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
for simplicity. Rob Kiernan is going bother. Now there are two decent | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
targets for Rangers. Harry McKay to take. Oh, Miller's got a free | :32:55. | :33:04. | |
header! What a let off the Hibs. Both sides have struck woodwork. | :33:05. | :33:12. | |
Here come Hibs on the counter with McGinn, looking for Cummings, a bit | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
too much on it. What a final we have ourselves here. Incredibly poor | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
defending again at a set piece. Kenny Miller is a dangerous player. | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
You cannot give him a free header. He is so lucky. Very similar to | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
Anthony Stokes, does everything just about right, and it cracks back off | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
he would work. Horrendous defending by Hibs. It's a free header. Umpteen | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
bodies back, extra men in the box, people are standing and looking at | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
each other. The tide has most definitely turned. Rangers so often | :33:50. | :33:58. | |
taking the short corner, as Craig was saying, Hibs perhaps keeping an | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
eye on the big men, didn't bargain for Kenny Miller, left of the | :34:03. | :34:04. | |
penalty spot. 12 to the break. Could be 2-2, we are watching, here. | :34:05. | :34:23. | |
It has been decent stuff. We figured these two teams would be turning in | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
decent fare. Here is Waghorn, he will test Stevenson. Showed too much | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
of it to Stevenson. Tavernier. To Zelalem. | :34:33. | :34:42. | |
He's such a dangerous weapon for Rangers down that right, as Wallace | :34:43. | :34:50. | |
is on the left, of course. Important period of the game for Hibernian, | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
you suspect. For sure. Rangers look like they fancy it now. They are on | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
top. Hibs were snapping into tackles, winning the ball, earlier, | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
now Rangers are starting to take over in the midfield area and they | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
start to look much more dangerous. Four energy sapping play-off matches | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
in recent times, Hibernian. Two against Raith Rovers, two against | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
Falkirk. This is Liam Fontaine. He scored in the League Cup final, of | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
course. The Hibs goal in the 2-1 defeat to Ross County. Dylan | :35:29. | :35:36. | |
McGeouch, who we have barely mentioned. 35 in. Fraser Fyvie. | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
Stevenson. Went through a couple, there. Just | :35:41. | :35:52. | |
done enough. Here is Fyvie. Good work by Zelalem. Looking a bit more | :35:53. | :36:04. | |
measured in their build-up that time, Hibs. I just think Fraser | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
Fyvie should have got the ball into the box. They were two on two, in | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
that situation just give your strikers a chance. That's ambitious. | :36:14. | :36:22. | |
that situation just give your Kenny Miller's 21st of the season. | :36:23. | :36:30. | |
His third spell at Rangers, his second was by far and away the most | :36:31. | :36:32. | |
fruitful. It all began for Kenny Miller at | :36:33. | :36:49. | |
Hibs. Against Motherwell, he made his senior debut. That's a sore one | :36:50. | :36:58. | |
for Tavernier. John McGinn has got to be careful, coming running into | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
the back. I can't believe how much room Kenny Miller has got, acres of | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
space, he pulls off. That is really unlucky. | :37:08. | :37:45. | |
Hibs looking it bit edgy now. They have stopped passing the ball. When | :37:46. | :37:53. | |
a player gets the ball at the back early in the game, there are two or | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
three to play it too, and you work it to the front. Now when they get | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
the ball, they look up and they are under pressure, and they just have | :38:02. | :38:02. | |
to clear it. Is the scoreline about right? I | :38:03. | :38:26. | |
think it's fair. Hibs started sharp, got the goal. Rangers gradually | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
started to grind their way back into the game. I don't think either | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
manager will be too happy at the way they conceded. | :38:37. | :39:02. | |
The winners today not only get to lift the Scottish Cup, but also be | :39:03. | :39:10. | |
playing European football next season. They go into next season's | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
Europa League at the second qualifying round. That, by the way, | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
is the round after Aberdeen and Hearts, who finished second and | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
third in the Premiership. It's great, if you get through the cut | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
you've got an extra couple of weeks to get ready and really prepare, | :39:28. | :39:28. | |
games under your belt. Rangers have it back, and it's Danny | :39:29. | :39:49. | |
Wilson. Here goes Barry Mackay, the | :39:50. | :40:08. | |
fleetfooted Barry McKay. Rangers now need to get McKay involved. Haven't | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
seen a great deal of him. Taking on David Gray, got clear, but David | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
Gray gets back, keeps him under pressure, and the final ball is not | :40:18. | :40:19. | |
good enough. Today's strike was Kenny Miller's | :40:20. | :40:35. | |
13th in what is his 22nd appearance for Rangers against Hibs. | :40:36. | :40:44. | |
Cancelled out Anthony Stokes's early strike inside four minutes. | :40:45. | :41:00. | |
It was a real dramatic collapse by Hibernian as the season got into the | :41:01. | :41:07. | |
business end of the championship. They lost three games in a week. | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
Went from winter to spring. Including a 3-0 reverse at home to | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
Morton. Struggled to get going since then. Here comes Anthony Stokes, who | :41:17. | :41:23. | |
is in again, here! Equal to it this time is Wes Foderingham. I think | :41:24. | :41:26. | |
this is really good save. Thought he was going far post again. Tries to | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
catch the goalkeeper at the near post, and he gets a really strong | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
right hand on this. It looks bound for the bottom corner. That's a | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
great save. Could have had a hat-trick, Stokes, who hit the post | :41:40. | :41:46. | |
earlier. Here comes the corner. Desperately tries to keep it in, | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
which he has done. In the McGregor, now Cummings! Foderingham again. | :41:52. | :41:59. | |
Suddenly the pendulum is swinging Hibs's way again. It is away from | :42:00. | :42:08. | |
Stokes, though. Another chance. Well, incredible pressure. Darren | :42:09. | :42:17. | |
McGregor knocks this ball in, it is an absolute beauty. Stokes just | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
can't make up the ground to get it on target. And Jason Cummings, what | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
a chance he had earlier, but again Foderingham got their quick and | :42:27. | :42:31. | |
smothered his effort. Lost a calamitous goal at Easter Road | :42:32. | :42:34. | |
recently, Wes Foderingham, crossed ball by Anthony Stokes that night in | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
Edinburgh which he almost patted into his own net. Some big saves, | :42:40. | :42:41. | |
there, though. Conrad Logan, who was the hero in | :42:42. | :43:12. | |
the shoot out in the semis. Foderingham coming out to meet | :43:13. | :43:13. | |
Cummings, there. Conrad Logan at some point in the | :43:14. | :43:33. | |
semifinals seemed to be having a personal jewel with Billy McKay, the | :43:34. | :43:34. | |
Dundee United striker. Here come Hibernian, this is | :43:35. | :43:48. | |
Cummings, he is chopped down, there. David Gray is wide on the right. | :43:49. | :43:58. | |
Fyvie. McGinn did well. He was fouled by Zelalem. Important for | :43:59. | :44:05. | |
Hibs, set pieces. You look at the three big centre-backs, they have | :44:06. | :44:08. | |
definitely got an edge in height. But they need quality. Late | :44:09. | :44:11. | |
challenge, doesn't make contact with the ball. Skips over but the referee | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
awards the free kick. All three centre-backs are in there, this is | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
an area where Hibs will believe they can cause problems for Rangers. | :44:22. | :44:29. | |
Interesting John McGinn didn't go down. We saw something in the | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
play-off match the other night, it looked like a foul, certainly, the | :44:34. | :44:40. | |
Kilmarnock player didn't go down, the referee decided it wasn't a | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
penalty. John McGinn's free kick for Hibs. A way by Kiernan. Dealt with | :44:46. | :44:53. | |
by Kenny Miller. Can't argue with that. Waghorn has McKay over to his | :44:54. | :45:01. | |
right, if he can find him. Kenny Miller, picking up the scraps. | :45:02. | :45:18. | |
One minute you think the teams are secure at the back. The next, they | :45:19. | :45:25. | |
are cut open. Neither looks defensively set, you know. Neither | :45:26. | :45:28. | |
team play that way. They will take their chances and get the ball in | :45:29. | :45:30. | |
the forward areas. Jason Cummings. He's dinked it over the bar but we | :45:31. | :45:40. | |
will forgive him that one, after his semifinal penalty. I think it was | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
one of those ones where he wasn't set for the shot. He did something | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
similar at Falkirk in the play-off and rattled it back off the bar. On | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
44 minutes-plus, he was quite entitled to try his luck. | :45:55. | :46:14. | |
It's half-time in the Scottish Cup Final. Anthony Stokes giving Hibs | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
the dream start inside four minutes. A lovely finish. Not great defending | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
from a Rangers point of view. And Kenny Miller levelling up the final, | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
a wonderful header, even better cross from James Tavernier, set up | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
the opportunity, Stokes with his eighth of the season, Miller with | :46:36. | :46:42. | |
his 21st. It's been an exciting 45 minutes with both those players also | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
hitting woodwork. It's been some first half. 45 minutes at least | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
still to come at the National Stadium. At half-time, it is Rangers | :46:51. | :47:01. | |
1, Hibernian 1. They have produced some memorable matches, these two, | :47:02. | :47:03. | |
over the last couple of seasons. This is another one. Anthony Stokes | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
strikes for Hibs inside three minutes, as Rangers backed off. Back | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
came Rangers. James Tavernier's cross and it was a battle between | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
Kenny Miller and Darren McGregor, won by the former Scotland striker, | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
a crushing header. Past Conrad Logan. The frame of the goal rattled | :47:23. | :47:29. | |
a couple of times as well. A half-time scoreline of Rangers 1, | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
Hibs 1. Let's get the thoughts of Pat Nevin, Michael Stewart and | :47:35. | :47:37. | |
Ronald de Boer. Hibs were threatening to run away with it. | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
Rangers will be happy to be back in the game? For sure. I expected a | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
tight game. Technical from the Hibs side. We saw a lot of chances. Great | :47:49. | :48:01. | |
for an objective football watcher. Are you trying to put words in his | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
mouth? It has been a great game. Right from the off, it's been a | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
fascinating watch, like Ronald says. The tactical battle, in terms of | :48:13. | :48:16. | |
Hibs going to three at the back. To start with, their game plan worked a | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
treat. They were able to counter on Rangers and cause them problems in | :48:21. | :48:22. | |
the final third. Rangers dominating Rangers and cause them problems in | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
possession and on the balance of it, Hibs have had the better chances, | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
but 1-1 is a fair reflection. Hibs started well and finished well. But | :48:32. | :48:34. | |
they have created a lot in that 45 minutes? It is exactly the tactics | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
what we expected to happen. If you play three at the back, you have to | :48:41. | :48:43. | |
soak up a lot of pressure. Hibs have play three at the back, you have to | :48:44. | :48:50. | |
two strikers up there so they will play on the break and they played | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
really well on the break. The other thing as well, Hibs managed to get | :48:56. | :49:02. | |
the ball in that final area of Rangers' midfield and Hibs breaking | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
from high up as well. Interesting. Exciting. Amazing game so far. No | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
surprise that there's been goals. Only surprise is there's not been | :49:14. | :49:16. | |
more goals. A great moment for Anthony Stokes inside three minutes. | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
It is a shocker defensively for Rangers? We talked about him liking | :49:20. | :49:30. | |
to go to the left. Of course, this is quite poor defending. A good | :49:31. | :49:43. | |
finish. The defender has to come in. Anthony Stokes has been able to walk | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
into the edge of the six-yard box, unchallenged and Kiernan doesn't | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
close the space off. He has a free strike and Foderingham can't get to | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
it. The defender has to commit the striker. It is two against one. Go | :49:58. | :50:05. | |
tight, outside, I will have the inside. You can overcover as a | :50:06. | :50:13. | |
defender. Let's not forget... He walks into the six-yard box and he | :50:14. | :50:20. | |
gets a goal. It was a pass. It wasn't a shot. That is the thing | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
about Anthony Stokes, a bit of class. He can keep calm in that | :50:26. | :50:32. | |
situation. That was symptomatic of the way the game was going at that | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
stage. Rangers equalised. Kenny Miller, we spoke about him before | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
the match. Yes. It was about who wanted it more. That is desire. A | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
fantastic ball from James Tavernier. You watch Kenny Miller here. That | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
ball comes out, he wants to get in there. He gets in front of Darren | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
McGregor, who has to be stronger. He's expecting, thinking Hanlon is | :51:02. | :51:05. | |
going to get it. It's a fantastic goal. He jumped early and... As a | :51:06. | :51:12. | |
defender, you are thinking, go and wipe the forward out there. Yes. If | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
you challenge him, you will put him off a bit. McGregor, because he | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
expects the guy in front of him to win it, he has ducked below it. | :51:22. | :51:32. | |
Still a great goal. Stubbs will not be happy. That cross has come from | :51:33. | :51:40. | |
deep. That cross has come from ten or 15 yards deeper and that is | :51:41. | :51:43. | |
because they have too many guys on the edge of the box. Stokes and | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
Miller have scored. They might have had a double. This was a great | :51:48. | :51:51. | |
strike from Anthony Stokes. We heard about how desperate he was to do | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
well today. He is having some game. This is what we are talking about. | :51:57. | :52:02. | |
It's a fantastic strike. They have done that really well. Question | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
marks about Anthony Stokes. He hasn't stepped up to the plate | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
enough. But today, so far, Alan Stubbs talks about big-game players | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
a lot. He talks about Stokes being one of them. Today, in the first | :52:16. | :52:22. | |
half, Stokes has been that for Hibs. You see the question marks over the | :52:23. | :52:26. | |
defending of Rangers. When you lose the ball, you have to be tight. | :52:27. | :52:32. | |
Every time the Hibs players, they have all the time to get the ball to | :52:33. | :52:39. | |
feet and then to run to defenders and they should be so much more | :52:40. | :52:43. | |
tighter when they lose the ball and that is a big problem for Rangers. | :52:44. | :52:51. | |
We are sounding like fully-paid-up members of the Kenny Miller | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
Appreciation Society. This was some movement but you would have to be | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
questioning the defending? Yes. There is a reason why he is standing | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
in that much space. Mark Warburton and his whole team have worked on | :53:05. | :53:07. | |
that. Have a look at where he is standing. He knows where he wants to | :53:08. | :53:15. | |
go. He is shouting everyone to get out of the way. He gets a block off | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
his own players. That is not a fluke, I think that was worked | :53:21. | :53:30. | |
there. 1100%. Well done, Kenny. A really good header. On top of that, | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
well done the backroom staff. Great working. They know that Hibs can be | :53:34. | :53:43. | |
weak at corners. It was a tactical success for Hibs right from the | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
start. The only disappointment is that they haven't made more of it? | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
Exactly. Rangers, before the goal they made, they had no clue on how | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
to break the wall of Hibs. Hibs were dangerous every time. No pressure on | :54:00. | :54:06. | |
the ball. They could choose anybody and this is what would be killing | :54:07. | :54:10. | |
for Rangers. If this goes in, it is 2-0. Then it is gone. Here again, | :54:11. | :54:20. | |
all the way, Stokes can walk into the box and shoot. This was terrible | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
defending and good play by Hibs. We know Rangers want to play expansive | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
football. That is what I was talking about before the game. Ball was | :54:31. | :54:34. | |
playing in the six position against Celtic and he did it really well. | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
The two centre-halves are not great defenders. Kiernan was getting | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
dragged into areas he shouldn't be and Hibs have exploited that. You | :54:44. | :54:54. | |
look at Halliday and Holt... Zelalem is back in there and that is not his | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
position. Wilson and Kiernan are afraid to give the space away at the | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
back... They are not quick. That is why Stokes and Cummings can easily | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
take the ball to feet. There is no doubt Rangers have been | :55:13. | :55:16. | |
uncomfortable. Have Stokes and Cummings linked up better than they | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
have done today? Stokes playing in that inside-left position. There was | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
one clip where the ball dropped in the middle of the park and Stokes | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
played a lovely first-time pass into Cummings. They have made themselves | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
very difficult for Rangers and they have caused Rangers a lot of | :55:33. | :55:35. | |
problems. It is probably the most successful, you might not say they | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
have linked up great together, the two have caused more problems for | :55:42. | :55:44. | |
Rangers today than they have in other games. With the two goals, | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
with the efforts rattling off the frame of the goal, then we had a | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
late first half Hibs flurry. They might have got themselves ahead. | :55:54. | :56:01. | |
Most of the possession was Rangers. How many times, it is Groundhog Day. | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
It is the left-hand side. The ease in which they get in there. Stokes | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
likes to go into those areas. He hasn't been as dangerous from there | :56:13. | :56:19. | |
lately. He is today. These are a whole bunch of chances. You have to | :56:20. | :56:26. | |
say Hibs deserved, over the chances, maybe to sneak it, if anyone | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
deserved to sneak it in that first half. Will Rangers look to | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
reorganisation? They do look vulnerable? The manager has to | :56:36. | :56:37. | |
tell... The problem lies when you That is the problem. They are | :56:38. | :56:58. | |
watching the ball, they give way too much space away and you can never | :56:59. | :57:04. | |
keep up the pressure against Hibs, so I think that is a thing he is | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
going to talk about. He will also say be patient, don't try to make | :57:11. | :57:18. | |
2-1 in the first ten minutes. We have 45 minutes. We have possession. | :57:19. | :57:22. | |
Most of the time, Rangers had the possession. If you are so careless | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
with the ball, and you are not pressing, it is waiting for a big | :57:27. | :57:33. | |
chance for Hibs. Are we seeing a rustiness about Rangers? I don't | :57:34. | :57:41. | |
think it is rustiness. Not having Ball in that six position, you have | :57:42. | :57:45. | |
Halliday who is there, he is lovely on the ball, but his first instinct | :57:46. | :57:50. | |
is to get on the ball and to see passes forward. He is not thinking | :57:51. | :57:54. | |
about where is the striker, where is the ten to pick up? That is where | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
Hibs have exploited Rangers. I don't think it is rustiness. Alan Stubbs | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
will be delighted with what's happened in the main? Some defensive | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
issues, but in the main Hibs have been on the front foot, haven't | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
they? They need to be more clinical? His tactics have worked exactly how | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
he would have wanted them to work, except for one or two cross-balls | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
where that mass of players in there didn't attack it as well as they | :58:23. | :58:25. | |
should have done. If I was Alan Stubbs, I would be worried about one | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
thing. McKay got the ball one-on-one against Gray and he flew past him. | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
That's a slight concern. You have not seen anything of them in that | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
left, Rangers on that left-hand side there. They are fabulous down that | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
side with Wallace and McKay. We talked about it before. Hibs have | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
their eye on it. Is he trying to do that for 90 minutes on a big pitch | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
against really good players? That would be a concern to me. The one | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
other thing that will be at the back of his mind is the fact that we have | :58:57. | :59:05. | |
shown so many chances, it's one of those ones, are you going to rue the | :59:06. | :59:10. | |
chances that you have had? Of course, it will cause a lot of | :59:11. | :59:14. | |
energy for those strikers. You have to run in the channels. You have to | :59:15. | :59:17. | |
make ground and can you do that for 90 minutes? I feel Rangers is not | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
of game. We Lieutenant wait and see. of game. We Lieutenant wait and see. | :59:24. | :59:35. | |
-- we will wait and see. I do think Hibs look like the team that will | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
tire. It becomes a big thing at Hampden Park because your energy | :59:41. | :59:43. | |
will be expended and the mental energy and the nervous energy... | :59:44. | :59:51. | |
Do you think Hibs would fancy having him upfront and available? Why | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
hasn't he got the green and white scarf on? To be fair he was | :59:58. | :00:04. | |
fantastic for us, he's had a great season. Looking at Stokes, if you | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
give him the ball in the right area, he looks on fire. A danger and will | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
presumably continue to be so. We wondered what the managers would | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
say, Mark Warburton, he would say, listen, I want you, straightaway, | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
when he goes to the side, go tight. Because they just let him run into | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
the six yard box and he's very dangerous. That's something they | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
will worry about. I think it is one thing that Rangers have to take care | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
of. Then you have already taken half the danger out. Second-half | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
commentary coming up from Liam and Craig. This is the story so far. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
COMMENTATOR: Here is Cummings, Stokes, hasn't got anyone to hit in | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
the middle. Stokes fancy it himself, and he does! And why not? Is it on? | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
Is it on? The ball in is a good one. It is Kenny Miller! It is 1-1 in the | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
final. COMMENTATOR: Became the 25th | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
different winner of the competition last year when they defeated Falkirk | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
year 2-1. James Vincent scoring the winner on 86 minutes. Only one of | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
the last 24 Scottish Cup finals has gone to extra time, that was in | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
2006. Is that where we are heading today? Only been one English manager | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
to win the Scottish Cup, Smith, will Falkirk, in 1957, defeating | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
Kilmarnock after a replay. There will be a second today, but will it | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
be Scouser Alan Stubbs or London Mark Warburton? Hibs get us under | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
way. Shooting towards their supporters in the second half at the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Tony Clement. Rangers in the blue shooting towards Mount Florida. No | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
changes for either team at the interval in what is the 33rd | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Scottish Cup meeting between the teams. Rangers have won 14, Hibs | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
have won ten, there have been eight strong ties. -- drawn. It will be | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
interesting to see if the second half follows in a similar pattern to | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
the first. I think it will be end to end again, the only question is who | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
comes out of the traps quicker this time. This is Jason Cummings. Hibs | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
trying to launch their first assault on the Rangers goal, here. Zelalem | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
pinching it back, though. This is the 199th match for Rangers | :02:50. | :03:09. | |
since they began their route towards the top flight in 2012. Began with a | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
challenge cup tie against Brechin City. Lee McCulloch scoring in a 2-1 | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
win. Being a long arduous journey for the Rangers supporters. This is | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
Martyn Waghorn. It's good play from him. He just let at the vital | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
moment. -- he just slipped. Is Fraser Fyvie looking for the | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
decision? Not sure if he believes he was clipped, but he drives towards | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
the byline. If there a hand on his back from Lewis Stevenson? Is that | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
what he was trying to claim? He has certainly gone down too easily, the | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
referee is not going to give him a penalty for that. | :03:55. | :04:16. | |
Rangers keeping up this excellent record of scoring in all but two of | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
their matches this season. One of those was in the cup against | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
Kilmarnock at Ibrox. The other was in a recent defeat to Livingston. | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
Which was one of just five league defeats in this campaign. Hibs | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
inflicted two on them. I don't think I've watched a game where Lee | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
Wallace has spent so much time back. Good point. Rangers have | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
swashbuckling wingbacks. Here is one of them, James Tavernier. | :04:57. | :05:10. | |
Rangers desperate to win a National trophy before they get back into the | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
top flight. That's what one of their trophy before they get back into the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
main ambitions has been over the past four years. | :05:18. | :05:46. | |
Tavernier to Waghorn, two players who have made such an impression for | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Rangers this season. Slack by Danny Wilson. That just | :05:50. | :06:27. | |
invites pressure. Hibs have got to try to use the ball better. Rangers | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
look better in possession. But certainly a poor pass out of | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
defence. Hamelin. Stevenson to Stokes. He's had a go. And he's | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
forced yet another save out of Wes Foderingham. He's in the mood, | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Anthony Stokes. He keeps dropping short. When he gets the ball there | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
is no thought about, what am I going to do with this? He's going to fire | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
at goal. Decent save. Interesting tussle between Stokes and | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
at goal. Decent save. Interesting Foderingham, as the corner comes in. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
Just nicked away. And that's a goal kick. Danny Wilson was the Rangers | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
player who attacked that. Too much on the Cummings. This is | :07:13. | :08:05. | |
John McGinn. Looking further Cummings, he's going to find him as | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
well. He's on his own right now. Two arriving in the middle about now. No | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
way through. Wouldn't be surprised to see this go | :08:13. | :08:56. | |
all the way. You wouldn't be surprised if it went all the way, | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
both these sides came through via penalty shoot outs in the semis, of | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
course. I don't think either team manager wants it to go to that. It | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
could become a battle of fatigue or lack of fatigue late in the game. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Rangers starting to keep the ball better which means Hibs have to work | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
twice as hard. Good play by James Tavernier. Rangers beat Peterhead to | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
lift the challenge cup here last month before facing Celtic seven | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
days later. Looking at the bench, though, talking about Hibs with | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
players running out of legs, Henderson, Keatings, Berkeley, a lot | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
does not die looped the team at all. does not die looped the team at all. | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
-- it doesn't die -- it doesn't dilute the team. | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
Jason Holt. Halliday. Good harrying, there, by McGinn. Equally so by | :10:10. | :10:26. | |
Miller. How good was that? Brilliant initially from McGinn, and then also | :10:27. | :10:38. | |
from Kenny Miller. Some wee skirmishes, and the REFEREE: | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
Position, he can see no fouls being committed. | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
Some wee skirmishes, and the referee in a good position, you can see no | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
fouls being committed, let them play on. Here is Cummings. Not being his | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
afternoon so far. Know, and its Anthony Stokes is the man early in | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
the game, you know, he looked like he could turn things around for | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Hibs. Jason Cummings starting today, one or two would be hoping for big | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
things. On the ball away from goal, linkup play, it's not happening just | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
now. But he's still a major goal threat. | :11:25. | :11:45. | |
Rangers looking forward to top-flight football next season. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Hibs would have loved to have joined them. They'll have to wait another | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
year at least. Very late from Tavernier. He'll be | :11:56. | :12:11. | |
in trouble for that. Yeah, he's totally committed, James Tavernier, | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
he just doesn't get there quick enough. You see the ball is well | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
away when he stretches into the challenge. Doesn't catch into badly | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
but the fact is, going head on into a talent like that, the referee is | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
going to believe that's reckless and that's going to be a yellow card -- | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
going into a tackle like that. It's the first yellow card of the final | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
going into a tackle like that. It's four James Tavernier. John McGinn is | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
the conspirator for the high fees, here. | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
It's Fontaine. He does well to get his head on the ball. Liam Fontaine | :12:45. | :12:56. | |
is grabbing him. Another chance for Hibernian. If | :12:57. | :13:13. | |
they lose this Scottish Cup final, there will be feelings of regret. | :13:14. | :13:27. | |
Goes early for Waghorn. Really good idea by Kenny Miller. Realised he | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
wasn't going to get in on goal and self, Tavernier coming at the back | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
post, can't deflect on target. He's not had a bad season, has he? | :13:37. | :13:50. | |
Lee Griffiths, the Celtic striker, 40 goals he managed this campaign. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Could have been more, missed a couple of penalties throughout the | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
season. I don't think the Celtic supporters will let that annoy them | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
too much. Fabulous campaign. Enjoying a well earned rest. He's | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
not involved in the Scotland games against Italy and France which are | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
to come in the next week and a half. John McGinn of Hibs in there, too. | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
It's a long season. Hibs have played more than 50 games this campaign. | :14:30. | :14:47. | |
It was Anthony Stokes who was involved in this... Anthony Stokes | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
tried to stick out a leg to block the clearance. He may have kicked on | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
to the sole of the boot. He kicks him on the knee, so I don't think he | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
will book Anthony Stokes for that. Zelalem was fouled by Fyvie. That | :15:06. | :15:32. | |
might be a yellow. It is. The Hibs midfield three are having to work | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
really hard in there and Fraser Fyvie committing a challenge like | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
that and getting himself yellow carded. I would imagine Marvin | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Bartley might be warming up shortly. You have to be very careful. A man | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
sent off at this stage could be so costly. | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
The Rangers subs today - just the five listed by Mark Warburton. Cammy | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
Bell is one of them, Law, Clark, Shiels and young Liam Burt. Hibs | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
have got Mark Oxley, Henderson, Bartley, Boyle, Keatings, Gunnarsson | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
and Dagnall. That knock to Zelalem... Mark Warburton is going | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
to spend a bit of time explaining something to the midfielder. In the | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
meantime, it's a Rangers free kick and Tavernier will take it. In it | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
comes... That could have been more awkward for Conrad Logan than he | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
made it look. Yeah, he stood his ground. He realised Kenny Miller | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
couldn't quite make up the ground. Fontaine was matching the run that | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Miller had just got ahead, safe for the goalkeeper. Well done by Gray. | :16:46. | :17:05. | |
That's a sharp move from Hibs, the turn from McGinn, he puts the pace | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
out to Cummings, tries to get it in early. Over the pair of the two in | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
the middle. We have played an hour of the Scottish Cup Final. Hibs led | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
early through Stokes, cancelled out by Kenny Miller. The 131st final of | :17:26. | :17:37. | |
this competition. A long way to go yet in the Glasgow sunshine. | :17:38. | :18:01. | |
Rangers are dominating possession of the football. When Hibs get it, | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
Rangers are pressing them quickly and Hibs are giving them the ball | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
back far too cheaply. Dean Shiels will be on. He is ready to come on, | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
in fact. Just out of picture. It will be Zelalem who is going to come | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
off. Craig's thoughts on that in a minute. Martyn Waghorn... Zelalem, | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
who is about to be hooked. McKay. He minute. Martyn Waghorn... Zelalem, | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
wins a corner. Oh no, goal kick. Once again, the referee in a good | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
position. From here, it did look like it had come off David Gray. The | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
introduction of Dean Shiels suggests the manager is looking for a little | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
more craft and guile. Rangers have possession of the football. Zelalem | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
is more steady, Dean Shiels can produce a killer ball. A mixed | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
reception for Dean Shiels. One-half of the stadium cheer him on, the | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
other half boo him on. A former Hibee against his old team. The | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
referee today, Steven McLean, sent off Craig Gordon in last year's semi | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
against Inverness. Encouragingly for the Hibs | :19:30. | :20:06. | |
supporters, they were dead and buried by this time in their last | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
two finals. They are still very much a force in this one. You do sense | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
that Rangers are beginning to get a stranglehold on this. Certainly | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
possession of the ball. Very little for Conrad Logan, the goalkeeper, to | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
do. But the fact is, every time the ball is in the middle of the park, | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Rangers can make eight, nine, ten passes. When Hibs get it, it is one | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
or two and it is launched forward and possession is given straight | :20:36. | :20:36. | |
back to the Ibrox side. Andy Halliday. Nice touch from | :20:37. | :20:51. | |
Halliday! There is nothing you can do about that! Andy Halliday puts | :20:52. | :21:01. | |
Rangers in front. That is an absolute fizzer. Defensively, he's | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
tried to take a touch, turn, set it up, but what a strike this is. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Across the goalkeeper. Bang! You will not see a better strike than | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
that. Conrad Logan no chance at all. Just inside the post. He's got a | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
powerful left foot. He's now hit a belter and given Rangers the lead. | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
It is a tenth goal of the season for Andy Halliday, who is a big, big | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
Rangers fan and he has just put them in front in a Scottish Cup Final. | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
What a feeling for him. And what a feeling for Mark Warburton. | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
Jason Cummings, his afternoon is over. James Keatings has come on. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Hibs need to get some sharpness up there. Cummings in the dug-out, | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
James Keatings is on the park alongside Anthony Stokes. Well, is | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
Hibs' Scottish Cup misery about to be extended by another year? They | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
have to come up with a response. James Keatings on the park now. That | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
is a foul by Stevenson. Hibs will have to take chances. I | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
don't think Liam Henderson will be far from making an entrance either. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Rangers will be lifted by that goal. Their passing has been good. They | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
will make it very difficult for Hibs to get on the ball. | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
It's a real Scottish Cup Final, a classic from Andy Halliday. One of | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
the best you will see in this showpiece. This is Stokes. | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
That was a good idea. From that distance, even a chip going into the | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
top corner, Wes Foderingham would move his feet and deal with that. | :23:05. | :23:20. | |
50,701 inside the National Stadium today. Segregation is perhaps | :23:21. | :23:29. | |
keeping it down from being an absolute capacity. | :23:30. | :23:40. | |
We saw Barrie McKay score a wondergoal in the semifinal here | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
against Celtic. That was equally good from Halliday. Every bit as | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
good. When you turn and move it out of your feet... He generates | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
magnificent power. A bit of needle between these two | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
this season. There hasn't been much sympathy for | :24:09. | :24:30. | |
their plight in the league coming to Hibernian down Ibrox way. The final | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
quarter of the game now, though. Stokes. | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
Others were asking in the middle why that was not fired across for them. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
I still believe he is the man most likely. He will take defenders on. A | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
complete mis-hit. Puts it a mile way, but Hibs need to get him on the | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
ball. Liam Henderson is going to be on | :24:53. | :25:06. | |
momentarily for Hibernian. Rangers can be patient now. They | :25:07. | :25:41. | |
don't have to go chasing that ball. This is why. Just look at the | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
strike... Absolutely sweet as a nut. Nicks off the inside of the post. | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
Andy Halliday nicked that from his top drawer. It was wonderful. Hibs | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
staring down the barrel of misery again, as things stand. There is | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
still time for them to save this. Keatings goes in over the top on | :26:07. | :26:07. | |
Wallace. The referee is going to settle for a | :26:08. | :26:19. | |
word again. It's a 50/50 and he's thrown himself into it. He put his | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
foot on the top of the ball, I think. A word of warning. It is Liam | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
Henderson for Liam Fontaine. A change of system, back four, | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
midfield diamond. With Henderson at the front of the diamond, trying to | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
get him on the What a feather in the cap of Mark | :26:39. | :27:00. | |
Warburton it would be if he could win the Scottish Cup at the end of | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
his first full season. It would be three trophies. He won the | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
Championship title and the Challenge Cup. Delivering, as things stand, | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
top-flight football, silverware and European football. That's all in his | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
first season. Little wonder he is held in high regard by the Rangers' | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
supporters. The Championship, getting back into the Premiership | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
was the job he had to do. Everything else is a bonus. The bonuses help | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
when you are trying to attract players and trying to sell season | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
tickets. The Rangers chairman has spoken today and, winning the | :27:46. | :27:54. | |
Scottish Cup today would change the Rangers budget. Rangers looking for | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
their third which, you would think, would kill off Hibernian. An | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
important phase in the game here. 19 to play of the 90. Hibs have to go | :28:03. | :28:13. | |
for it. We Have 19 minutes to go. They need Anthony Stokes on the | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
for it. We Have 19 minutes to go. ball. Rangers are looking very | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
comfortable just now. Everybody wants to get involved in the play | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
for Rangers. Up towards Stokes, who has two Scottish Cup winners' | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
medals. One in 2011, one in 2013, against Motherwell and against Hibs. | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
Henderson in support. Taken away from Keatings by Kiernan. | :28:46. | :29:00. | |
Good full-back work by Lewis Stevenson. | :29:01. | :29:24. | |
They are linking up well, those two, the couple of minutes they have had | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
on the pitch together. Here is Tavernier. Just took his eye off | :29:31. | :29:40. | |
that. McGinn. Through towards Keatings. Back by Kiernan to his | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
keeper. Nicky Clark is going to be on for | :29:45. | :30:14. | |
Rangers, shortly. Mark Warburton looking at his bench for the second | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
time. We are hearing it will be Martyn Waghorn who will be | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
sacrificed. Certainly not moving easily out there, Waghorn. Lewis | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
Stevenson is getting off him far too easily. Doesn't have the legs to get | :30:31. | :30:32. | |
back and match those runs. easily. Doesn't have the legs to get | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
Where there's a will there's a way for Hibernian. Henderson to Stokes. | :30:40. | :30:54. | |
Towards Gray who was well offside. He shouldn't be off, he's the widest | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
player, he can see right across the park. All he has to do is just bide | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
his time. Decent ball to the back post. It's all about timing. Just | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
off and no more, but he should have done better, there. It's not been a | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
vintage afternoon for Martyn done better, there. It's not been a | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
Waghorn, that's for sure. But he has been so important to Rangers across | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
the season. 28 goals, bearing in mind he missed a large chunk of the | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
closing months of the campaign. He is replaced by Nicky Clark. Yeah, he | :31:32. | :31:40. | |
supplies goal threat but he will also work, Lewis Stevenson was | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
getting away far too easily from Martyn Waghorn, the legs have turned | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
to jelly. Stevenson won't get away that easily from Clark. If it stays | :31:49. | :31:56. | |
this way I am sure Martyn Waghorn will find a lot more energy, as | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
Nicky Clark's father, Sandy, watches on. Took Dunfermline along to the | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
championship. Dundee United there tomorrow, we | :32:05. | :32:19. | |
will find out who else will be in that championship, the final place | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
in the championship will be taken. Falkirk protecting a 1-0 lead | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
against Killie at Rugby Park. There will be highlights of that park | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
tomorrow evening on sports scene. Highlights of this tonight as well. | :32:31. | :32:46. | |
Rangers 2-1 up and heading toward Silver again. For the third time | :32:47. | :32:54. | |
this season. Henderson to McGinn. This is Stokes. Loads in the middle, | :32:55. | :33:03. | |
here. It's lovely play. He's scored one, but he's missed five other | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
chances. Absolutely must hit target, there. He does really well to take | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
on James Tavernier, on his strongest side. A lot of players to go | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
through, but he's cop the quality just to into the bottom corner. -- | :33:19. | :33:26. | |
he's got the quality just to pass them into the bottom corner. 10:25pm | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
tonight for highlights of the Scottish Cup final. BBC One. Of | :33:33. | :33:39. | |
course there are highlights of tomorrow's second play-off leg. It | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
will be live on BBC Radio 2. It's all about the Scottish Cup final | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
here this afternoon. Just over 30 minutes to play. -- 13 minutes. | :33:53. | :34:06. | |
Keatings making his way into the box. Headed away by Wilson. And a | :34:07. | :34:14. | |
foul by Henderson, says the referee, who had the best view in the stadium | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
of that. Henderson doesn't believe that when the ball bounces, if a | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
player gets ahead of you, you are never going to dispossess him | :34:26. | :34:32. | |
without drawing the free kick. These Hibs fans have been in this movie so | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
many times before. They have lost their last ten Scottish Cup finals. | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
many times before. They have lost They haven't won it in 114 years. | :34:40. | :34:48. | |
It's going to go to 115 at least, if they can't somehow work back into | :34:49. | :34:58. | |
this. Yeah, looking for one quality chance, and it has two full to the | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
right man, or set piece, with the big lads in the team, they might | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
still believe that's an area where they can worry Rangers. Certainly in | :35:07. | :35:12. | |
possession of the football, when Rangers are well ahead right now. | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
When it comes to cup finals, it is the only thing. This is Liam | :35:19. | :35:20. | |
Henderson. Nice turn by John McGinn. He | :35:21. | :35:32. | |
couldn't quite force it back to Stokes, though. It's all getting a | :35:33. | :35:42. | |
bit frustrating for the Hibees. McGinn finds Fyvie. He teased Wilson | :35:43. | :35:50. | |
into the challenge, he's bought his team a corner as well. May have been | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
the best outcome, there. Fraser Fyvie didn't look like he was going | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
to get to the byline and get a ball into the box, so I think Hibs will | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
settle for a corner kick. Henderson's delivery is usually | :36:06. | :36:13. | |
pretty good. 11 minutes left. It's in! It's Stokes again! Anthony | :36:14. | :36:28. | |
Stokes rescues Hibs! They are right back in this! Big-time! I said his | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
delivery was good, he sticks it in a good area. But Anthony Stokes gets a | :36:33. | :36:39. | |
free header, bullets it into the top corner. Just eases James Tavernier, | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
his marker, off the ball, finishes in style. It has been Stokes's day | :36:46. | :36:57. | |
so far, his second of the match, Hibernian's second, and it is 2-2 | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
with ten minutes to play. Elation for the Hibees. Just which way is | :37:03. | :37:18. | |
the seesaw going to go? These two back on terms. We thought it would | :37:19. | :37:25. | |
be very difficult to split them and that's exactly the way it is panning | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
out. Here is Keatings. And suddenly it is Hibs with the swagger. | :37:32. | :37:42. | |
McGeouch to Keatings. Gray on the overlap, here he is. Easily dealt | :37:43. | :37:57. | |
with that time by Wilson. As things stand, we are off to extra time. | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
Good play by Gray, court Dean Shiels napping. -- he court Dean Shiels. | :38:04. | :38:13. | |
-- he caught Dean Shiels. Niklas Gunnarsson is getting himself | :38:14. | :38:24. | |
strapped. Don't know whether Gray is going to be able to carry on. Strong | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
challenge, Dean Shiels doesn't seem coming, wins the ball, and possibly | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
when Dean Shiels comes down on his knee, might have just twisted it. He | :38:35. | :38:40. | |
was already stretching that leg before he made the challenge, David | :38:41. | :38:41. | |
Gray. Gunnarsson is coming on. before he made the challenge, David | :38:42. | :38:52. | |
Anthony Stokes has had more individual chances in this game than | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
Rangers have in total. He doesn't play through the middle, keeps | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
dragging himself out left, when he gets on the ball he can go on his | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
left hand side but normally he cuts onto his right foot. He's missed a | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
couple, to be fair. He smashed one of the post. But he's made two | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
count, and that's kept Hibs in this Scottish Cup final. The dream is | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
back on for those in green and white. On comes the Norwegian | :39:22. | :39:30. | |
Gunnarsson. And Paul Hanlon going off. Didn't appear to be struggling. | :39:31. | :39:42. | |
Niklas Gunnarsson scored against Rangers of course in their recent | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
3-2 victory at Easter Road. So, David Gray continues. Gunnarsson, at | :39:47. | :39:54. | |
six feet and two inches, we'll just slip into that defence. He has | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
filled in at right back, centre-back. He's a big athlete and | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
he is also a target at set pieces, very good in the air. Seven minutes | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
of being normal time left. Henderson asking a lot of Gray, who | :40:07. | :40:28. | |
is already moving a little gingerly. That's really sloppy. I just wonder | :40:29. | :40:34. | |
if either team fancy winning this before the final whistle. When you | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
talk about fatigue and heavy legs. Hibs have no substrate on in extra | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
getting the message on to go for it getting the message on to go for it | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
-- no subs to bring on in extra time. It has been an energy sapping | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
couple of weeks, playing Raith Rovers twice, playing Falkirk twice. | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
Having to lift his players for this final. Scottish Cup finals would | :41:02. | :41:08. | |
normally lift you just by remembering that you have to take | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
part in it. But this has been a very different period for Hibernian. The | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
disappointment of not managing to gain promotion. | :41:20. | :41:29. | |
disappointment of not managing to gain promotion. Stokes with a double | :41:30. | :41:30. | |
for Hibs. Miller, and a classic from Halliday. | :41:31. | :41:38. | |
Rangers leading 2-1, having trailed 1-0. | :41:39. | :41:47. | |
McKay's ball in. Think it was his hand it came off. | :41:48. | :42:12. | |
By all accounts Alan Stubbs has missed the Hibs equaliser from | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
Anthony Stokes. Nature called. What can you do? Got to go, you've got to | :42:18. | :42:29. | |
go, Craig. He might be tempted to go again! Here is Holt. Runs out of | :42:30. | :42:40. | |
pitch. Not bad news to come back out to, to be fair. Interesting inside | :42:41. | :42:47. | |
when he heard the cheer, because you've no idea who is chairing. -- | :42:48. | :43:07. | |
you've no idea who is cheering. Four minutes left to play and you can | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
just about squeeze a cigarette paper between the two of them. Everyone | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
starts to get nervous round about now. You know one mistake, the ball | :43:19. | :43:25. | |
is in the back of the net and there is no time to recover. | :43:26. | :43:49. | |
We haven't had extra time in a Scottish Cup final for ten years. | :43:50. | :43:59. | |
It's not a competition that is normally decided by penalty shoot | :44:00. | :44:01. | |
It's not a competition that is outs, just a couple, Celtic in 1990. | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
McGinn almost found Keatings. Very close to being the perfect pass. But | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
Wes Foderingham sharp off his line. Hearers Tavernier, Dean Shiels to | :44:13. | :44:37. | |
his right. It is at the expense of a Rangers corner. I can't believe | :44:38. | :44:40. | |
Rangers are going to take this one short. The two centre-backs have got | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
themselves forward. You get in the mix-up and see what you can do. | :44:46. | :44:48. | |
Kenny Miller rattled the bar last time they had a corner kick. | :44:49. | :45:07. | |
Tavernier. That's annoyed the Rangers support. It's a head knock. | :45:08. | :45:17. | |
Not sure if it is the two Hibs players that have clashed. I don't | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
think the referee can afford to take chances when a player goes down as | :45:22. | :45:28. | |
quickly as that. Not at all. It's the two of them that's clashed. They | :45:29. | :45:35. | |
have used all their substitutions, Craig. That will be a major problem | :45:36. | :45:43. | |
if they lose a player. It's a big patch at Hampden. With ten men, it | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
is hard to cover the ground, especially against a team like | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
Rangers. They can take it out of your legs. A replay of the goal. | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
Anthony Stokes, just eases James Tavernier aside too easily. That is | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
a brilliant header. No chance for the keeper. He's been Hibs man | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
a brilliant header. No chance for the day. Not just his two goals, | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
he's put himself about today. We haven't seen much of that since he | :46:11. | :46:13. | |
returned to Easter Road on loan. He's the type of player who can turn | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
games. He tries the exceptional. If it doesn't come off, he will try it | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
again. It doesn't bother him. Other players try it once. Anthony Stokes | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
will keep trying to do something to get his team the win. He's proven | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
over the last ten years, Craig, that he's as good as anyone as far as | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
Scottish football is concerned, scoring goals. It is amazing how far | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
he's fallen down the pecking order at Celtic. | :46:44. | :46:50. | |
Injury-time upon us. Extra time will be four minutes after that. | :46:51. | :47:29. | |
Rangers are hunting down the goal that would surely win the Scottish | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
Cup. Good pressing by Gray. Brilliantly | :47:34. | :47:49. | |
done. Pressure, pressure, pressure, would not give up. Fyvie has space | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
to operate in here. He has Stokes to the left. He delayed it slightly. | :47:54. | :48:06. | |
Stokes. Into injury-time. Wow! He's hit this really well. The angle is | :48:07. | :48:13. | |
really tight. It's a decent save. He struck it well. Imagine being the | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
Hibs player who scores a hat-trick in the final minute of the Scottish | :48:20. | :48:28. | |
Cup Final! In goes the goal for David Gray! | :48:29. | :48:39. | |
A stunning moment, in stoppage-time! In one stretch of the neck muscles, | :48:40. | :48:48. | |
Hibernian's Scottish Cup pain and misery could be over. What a touch | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
from the skipper. He's gone up there, he's brave, he's got his head | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
on it. He's knocked it into the back of the net. Another decent corner | :48:58. | :48:59. | |
on it. He's knocked it into the back from Liam Henderson. The man who | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
wanted it most was David Gray. No chance for the goalkeeper. And Hibs | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
are now in pole position to win the Cup. Quite astonishing. Hibs are two | :49:09. | :49:16. | |
minutes away from winning the Scottish Cup. Two minutes is nothing | :49:17. | :49:30. | |
compared to 114 years. We thought David Gray was going to be off a | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
moment or two ago because of injury. If Hibs don't win the Scottish Cup | :49:35. | :49:38. | |
from this point, then it will be a new way to torture their supporters. | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
Anthony Stokes urges James Keatings into the corner. The Hibs fans all | :49:44. | :49:52. | |
on their feet. Rangers can't quite believe it. | :49:53. | :49:59. | |
The long ball is for Tavernier. It is not going to make it. Hibs will | :50:00. | :50:09. | |
The long ball is for Tavernier. It take an eternity to get this ball | :50:10. | :50:12. | |
back into play. Conrad Logan will get the ball, he is going to saunter | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
over and try and run down that clock as best he can. | :50:17. | :50:20. | |
We could be about to see something very, very special for Hibernian | :50:21. | :50:29. | |
Football Club. There will be a few seconds over the 94 because of the | :50:30. | :50:43. | |
goal that appears to be the winner. It was a crazy challenge by Dylan | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
McGeouch to give away a free kick... Wait a minute, he's changed his | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
decision. He's given the free kick to Hibs for a hand, an arm that came | :50:52. | :51:01. | |
up? Now, it is a chance for Hibs to knock this into the corner. If it | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
goes out of play, they don't care. Rangers have played their part in | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
this final but they are very much about to be the sideshow. | :51:13. | :51:20. | |
All eyes are on Steven McLean, the referee. Do Rangers have one last | :51:21. | :51:27. | |
chance? No, they don't! Ladies and gentlemen, you are witness to a | :51:28. | :51:35. | |
moment of Scottish sporting history. Hibernian have won the Scottish Cup! | :51:36. | :51:45. | |
114 years of torment, heartbreak and suffering, ten straight Scottish Cup | :51:46. | :51:51. | |
Final defeats are at an end. It has all got too much for the Hibs | :51:52. | :51:57. | |
supporters. One of Scottish football's longest standing side | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
stories has finally reached its conclusion. Last time they won this | :52:01. | :52:13. | |
trophy, it was the year that Real Madrid were formed, the vacuum | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
cleaner was invented, King Edward VII was Britain's monarch, that is | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
how long it's been! Generation after generation have suffered. These are | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
scenes the SFA will not want to see. The Rangers supporters beginning to | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
make their way on to the park now as well. It is not what anyone wanted | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
to witness today. Rangers played their part today. Goals from Miller | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
and Halliday turned a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 lead. Stokes opened the | :52:46. | :52:51. | |
scoring. Stokes made it 2-2. And the Hibernian skipper David Gray has won | :52:52. | :52:57. | |
Hibernian the Scottish Cup and Alan Stubbs is with Chris. | :52:58. | :53:00. | |
Hibernian the Scottish Cup and Alan Congratulations, the long wait is | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
over. Describe your feelings to me. Woah, it is difficult right now. I | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
thought the players were unbelievable, the way we started the | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
game and the way we finished it. They deserve this, they have had | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
some knockers, but they have had a long, hard season. Every cloud has a | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
silver lining and today we have got that silver lining. Did you feel | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
after that first half, perhaps it was slipping away? It's weird... | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
Woah, a bit emotional. I have probably dreamt this. I thought we | :53:38. | :53:41. | |
were going to win the game 3-1. This was weeks ago. I just had a funny | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
feeling. I knew the players were so disappointed last Friday. I knew by | :53:46. | :53:54. | |
the reaction on Monday that they were ready for this game. Delighted | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
for all the fans, the players, the football club. The history makers... | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
This means so much to you? It does. You work with them every day. They | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
have had a lot of bad luck against them, you know. And to see them | :54:11. | :54:15. | |
actually achieve it is fantastic. Congratulations. Enjoy it. Cheers. | :54:16. | :54:24. | |
We are seeing scenes reminiscent of the 1980 Scottish Cup Final, rioting | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
at the end of the Rangers-Celtic game. You can forgive some of the | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
Hibs supporters for going out of their minds temporarily. Just four | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
years ago, they all streamed out of here in tears after a humiliation at | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
the hands of Hearts. For those who went through that turmoil and all | :54:43. | :54:50. | |
the other trials and tribulations, can eradicate all those painful | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
memories, they have done it and few will grudge them this almighty | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
triumph, Craig Paterson? It is an incredible end. We want to see the | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
Cup presented. After that length of time, you want everything to be | :55:05. | :55:07. | |
smooth. You want the lap of honour. That is not going to happen. Some | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
people are on just celebrating, that's fine. At the other end, there | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
will be problems and there will be repercussions and the last thing we | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
wanted to see, it was an incredible game of football. It was an | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
incredible end. We don't need this. No, the horses are out. The police | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
horses. It is something we haven't seen in a generation, let alone the | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
generations that have passed since Hibs last won the Scottish Cup. | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
Rangers supporters spilled out on to the pitch as well. The drama of the | :55:38. | :55:43. | |
injury-time winner from David Gray was all too much for the Hibs | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
supporters. This has been pent up inside them for 114 years. They have | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
had misery after misery in this competition. Misery after misery... | :55:53. | :56:12. | |
Not even Gordon Smith, Bobby Johnston, and Willie Ormond managed | :56:13. | :56:18. | |
to do this. It has been zero years since Hibs won the Scottish Cup. It | :56:19. | :56:24. | |
is glory, glory to the Hibees. The chief has put Sunshine on Leith. It | :56:25. | :56:28. | |
finished here at Hampden Park, Rangers 2, Hibernian 3. | :56:29. | :56:34. | |
STUDIO: Thank goodness there is a police presence on the pitch now to | :56:35. | :56:41. | |
get between the two sets of support. What is a glory day for Hibs, no | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
doubt about that. It's gone pretty ugly in the last few minutes. It is | :56:49. | :56:51. | |
scenes of celebration and it will be long into the night for the Hibs | :56:52. | :56:58. | |
fans. An historic day for them. But those scenes outside on the pitch | :56:59. | :57:05. | |
are ones we hope to avoid, Pat. It was a lot worse than that in 1980. | :57:06. | :57:11. | |
We don't want to see that. There is an argument you can understand the | :57:12. | :57:17. | |
level of 114 years worth of frustration bubbling over. So you | :57:18. | :57:20. | |
run on the pitch. It is never right to do it. But you understand it. It | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
is absolutely not right. Without taking the shine off it, it has not | :57:25. | :57:31. | |
ruined it. That is not what anybody at Hibs wants to see. It was a | :57:32. | :57:41. | |
fabulous game of football. Look, it is what it is outside. We should be | :57:42. | :57:44. | |
focussing on the game. We have seen a great game of football today. The | :57:45. | :57:48. | |
second half dipped a little bit in terms of the start. The tempo went | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
down. Rangers had it in their hands at 2-1. They could have seen the | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
game out and Hibs looked dead on their feet. From somewhere, they got | :57:59. | :58:03. | |
a second wind and came back at Rangers. At the end of it, they | :58:04. | :58:07. | |
thoroughly deserved that victory. I am delighted for the club and for | :58:08. | :58:12. | |
the Hibs support. They have waited a long time for it. We should focus on | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
the game because it was a great game of football. It will be some | :58:17. | :58:19. | |
celebration, Ronald, when you have waited 114 years to win the Scottish | :58:20. | :58:28. | |
Cup, 1902? He is getting emotional next to me! You know in the back of | :58:29. | :58:36. | |
your mind if you win a prize like that with Hibs, you will be standing | :58:37. | :58:41. | |
in history for a long, long time. I must say, of course, if Rangers kept | :58:42. | :58:48. | |
the ball a little bit, I would never see Hibs coming back in the game. | :58:49. | :58:52. | |
Every second ball they lost. Easy passes. Then they deserve to win | :58:53. | :58:57. | |
after that. We said, after the 2-2, Hibs will win it. If one team is | :58:58. | :59:03. | |
going to score, it was Hibs. In the final analysis, was it about desire, | :59:04. | :59:08. | |
Michael? That was it. Hibs looked dead on their feet at 2-1. Pat had | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
spoken about trying to change the formation to get back into the game. | :59:13. | :59:15. | |
They didn't pose a threat in the second half. Just lifted their | :59:16. | :59:20. | |
energy levels from somewhere. There is a family snap, the Murray family | :59:21. | :59:25. | |
celebrating the Hibs win as much as anyone at the moment. Judy Murray in | :59:26. | :59:30. | |
charge of the photograph and Andy Murray, who is getting himself | :59:31. | :59:34. | |
started in the French Open tennis will be delighted to hear the news | :59:35. | :59:35. | |
from here as well. Yes, you take a lot of stick over | :59:36. | :59:46. | |
the years as a Hibs fan waiting for this moment. It almost hasn't sunk | :59:47. | :59:52. | |
in yet. They need to get everybody off the pitch so they can lift the | :59:53. | :59:59. | |
trophy. The Hibs like to celebrate by singing sunshine in Leith and | :00:00. | :00:03. | |
everything, they've not had chance to do that yet. And we'd like to see | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
that chance. And also the players, you want to get out there and | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
celebrate with the fans. Hopefully with them in the stands. There is an | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
irony, Hibs fans have waited so long to win the Scottish Cup, what | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
they've done by coming on the pitch is delaying the presentation of that | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
piece of silverware. I can understand why some Hibs fans are on | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the pitch, but the ones that run up to Rangers fans, that's silly. We | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
can hear from Anthony Stokes. Talk me through that. I am stuck for | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
words at the moment, just an unbelievable day and an unbelievable | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
result. What a performance and effort from all the staff, players, | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
everybody at the club. I think we deserved it today. We never gave up, | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
never gave in. One of the highlights of my career. On a personal level, a | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
dream day for you? It was unbelievable. I actually thought I | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
could have had a couple more goals. I scored at good stages in the game. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
I think it's fitting that David Gray scores the winner. He's been | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
outstanding. Great captain and he's led us great throughout the season. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
For the fans it's just unbelievable. With the history. It's hard to put | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
it into words at the moment. Some boisterous scenes at the end. Your | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
manager saying well done. It's been a long wait for this club, hasn't | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
it? Yes, so much talk about it here, and this year to get beaten in a | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
final already, but this is the one we wanted. We wanted to get | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
promotion this year but for the fans we wanted. We wanted to get | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
this will mean a lot and we are grateful for the support. We will | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
just enjoy it now. Spoke to you a few days ago about using today to | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
answer some critics, do you feel you did that? I did. I heard a couple of | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
people piping up before the game, ex-players than that. I said to you | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
I never doubted my own ability. It's down to me to perform and I done | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
that today. I don't care about my performance or my goals, I'm just so | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
happy that the club has finally won this cup. Congratulations and enjoy | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
your night. Cheers. Getting raffled on the way passed by Alan Stubbs. I | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
think Celtic have a year option on keeping Anthony Stokes, and based on | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
that they probably will. Hibs would obviously love to keep him if they | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
could possibly do that. These are all worries for another day. One | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
last word, Alan Stubbs made the change we were screaming for here, | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
bringing Henderson on, goes on to win 3-2, well done, manager. Two | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
more words, John McGinn. Silly question, how are you feeling? | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
Unbelievable. Everyone questioned my character and bottle, and to come | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
back from 2-1 down to win 3-2. I'm just delighted for the fans and | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
everyone associated with the club. It has been hanging over their heads | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
for a long time and we have finally done it and I am over the moon. Is | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
that phrase beginning to annoy the players? Definitely... There's | :03:15. | :03:27. | |
absolutely no chance of this happening. It was an ambitious move, | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
but it was never really happening, was it? They have just about left | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
you alone. Was it beginning to annoy you guys? It was. When you know it | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
is not true, you have that you guys? It was. When you know it | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
determination inside you to go and do it. It was just an incredible | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
feeling. The manager said he always believed in you guys. Yes, the whole | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
week. I had a feeling we were going to do it, and we were all positive | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
going into it. Rangers are a good side, don't get me wrong, and they | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
had a lot of the ball. But we were more clinical. Well done, enjoy your | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
night. How much of a difference will the Scottish Cup final win make to | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Hibs in terms of the squad they can have next season? It could be huge. | :04:23. | :04:32. | |
Obviously next season they are not going to have any televised games in | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
the championship. They are going to lose the parachute payments. The | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
potential of attracting and keeping people with European football, that | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
could be massive. You can't quantify it at the moment. Hibs managed to | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
keep hold of the majority of that squad then I think the club as a | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
whole have done a great job, keeping that squad together. Hopefully we | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
will get a trophy presentation eventually. As a supporter as | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
opposed to a player I would have preferred winning the Scottish Cup | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
than going up. I know every player and every person at the club would | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
have probably preferred to go up. But this will be remembered longer. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
For the fans. Exactly. Championship to the Premiership, there is | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
something there. Very important. But this will be remembered. Nobody | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
remembered that you got back to the Premier League, Hibs should be in | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
the Premier League. Let's hear from the man who scored the goal which | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
set of this, the late, late show the man who scored the goal which | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
from David Gray. I have a feeling that is a gold you will not forget | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
for a long time? I don't forget many to be honest. James made of this. | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
Scoring a goal in the last minute. It is Roy of the Rovers stuff. Yes. | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
Talk me through the goal itself. I just remember there being a corner, | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
great delivery, he put two great balls in. I was getting my head on | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
it first and that's all I can remember to be honest. The manager, | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
John McGinn, Anthony Stokes, all said that phrase was beginning to | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
annoy you. Yes, so disappointed not to get promoted, we believed we were | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
good enough to get out of this league. Winning the cup just puts to | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
bed people saying you do not have the character. We have managed to | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
come back, and it is credit to the lads and everybody involved, | :06:40. | :06:40. | |
amazing. Does that heal the wounds lads and everybody involved, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
of the play-offs? It certainly helps, definitely. I'm sure the fans | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
will go home very happy. We are not in the SPL next season but it gives | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
us the confidence we can go on to win the league next year. Talk to me | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
about what the manager means to these players and his input this | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
season? Not just this season but from the minute he came on the door. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
I was lucky enough to be his first signing and I've got a lot to be | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
thankful for. He's built this team, him and all his staff. It's been | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
such a group effort. So happy to be involved. You are the cup final | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
hero, enjoy it. Cheers. Shades of Wembley from way back with that | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
collapsed set of goalposts. I think many fans are getting a mentor of | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
the special occasion. We used to laugh a bit about. Finally they have | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
got it under control and hopefully these fans can enjoy something | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
they've waited a decent little period of time for. And let's not | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
forget in the midst of this, that was a really entertaining Scottish | :07:50. | :07:50. | |
Cup final today. Great game, wasn't was a really entertaining Scottish | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
it? Oh yeah, went up and down. I must say, the second half, after the | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
goal of Rangers, was not much changed. But you still felt there | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
was something that could happen. And yeah, I think Rangers did start | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
touching the ball to each other. Because we said Hibs looked tired, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
but suddenly Rangers gave them a new energy by losing every ball. Just | :08:26. | :08:35. | |
waiting and waiting. We've been saying all along, the main objective | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
for Rangers was realised by getting that promotion. Yeah, no, | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
definitely. Look, they've got the Premiership to look forward to next | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
year and obviously winning the petrify cup as well. The players | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
will be devastated they have not won the cup. But they've got a lot to be | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
proud of. Dangers have come on leaps and bounds. Credit to the club and | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
manager. But this day is for Hibs, they have waited long enough for it. | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
Hopefully they will see the trophy get lifted soon enough. They did | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
deserve it. When it came to the crunch they found energy from | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
somewhere and managed to get a last-minute goal, which is normally | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
what has happened against them. At 1-1 Hibs were beginning to lose it, | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
looked tired. We had a discussion here, change it now, Fortune favours | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
the brave, time to go for it. The change was not made, they go to- one | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
ahead, you think they've left it too late again. Give the players their | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
credit, when they did make the change they completely took over. | :09:44. | :09:56. | |
And then it was always an. It was the first time since the semifinal | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
but I thought Hibs would win. You were thinking you would get a draw | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
when they went 3-2 up! Joking aside it was the first time I thought Hibs | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
could win. Psychologically the Rangers players. And Henderson | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
coming on. He has quality on the ball and we saw that. Rangers | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
couldn't times to each other and you felt every ball could be dangerous | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
for Rangers. I think he is a popular choice among the Hibs players to be | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
the hero, he is 100% every time. Put in a fantastic tackle, think it was | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Dean Shiels in the middle of the park, took an injury off the back of | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
it but he kept going. Somebody you could imagine running through a | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
brick wall. Anthony Stokes saying he was delighted for him to get the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
winning goal, and he looks like a good character. Stereotypical type | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
of captain and leader but there are so many of them. The crowd behind us | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
are all going nuts. Great day for them. Having watched Gray this | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
season, he's played a lot of games being injured and kept on going. A | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
lot of other footballers get a wee bit of an injury and go off. Certain | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
players will just go through it for the team. When he went down with | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
that injury, youthful, that was bad news for Hibs. They had a ready use | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
their substitutes. Then you thought, no, it's David Gray, he will be OK. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
He would do it in a normal game, but in a cup final he would do anything. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Does it feel like relief as much as delight, that the taunting can stop? | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
Yes, you look at the fans, that's definitely a huge, huge part of it. | :11:49. | :12:00. | |
David Gray's life, what ever he does from now on, a lot of people will | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
come back to this moment, that day, those seconds. He will look back to | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
it, and if he is ever asked in the future about his football career, | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
he's just had it. Lots of other things happening your career. He's | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
just fortunate that the great thing that happens is a great thing that | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
everyone sees and remembers. It's not like a missed penalty. Wouldn't | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
that be terrible? Any doubt about Alan Stubbs staying on for next | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
season for another crack at getting up? I think there are obviously | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
question marks. But that's for another day. This is a celebration | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
today. They've got the another day. This is a celebration | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
contemplate and think about it. I think there is genuine affection for | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
the club from Alan Stubbs and he's done a fantastic job. Murmurs that | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
some of the crowd were not happy and thought they should look to change. | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
some of the crowd were not happy and For me they've got a manager in | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
place that they would be doing well to get somebody as good as. He's a | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
top guy, seems like a really good manager as well, who the players | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
really have an affection for. Winning the cup, obviously, you | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
would think that gives them a bit of a better chance of hanging around. | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
Here's another shout for you. Some managers have said, I've taken this | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
club as far as it can go, how much better can you get than winning the | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
cup for the first time in 114 years. Some chunks of turf has been ripped | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
up. It was a lovely surface at the start but some souvenirs have been | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
grabbed which will be appearing in the back gardens of quite a few Hibs | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
fans, I think, to mark the day. The police have taken their chances just | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
now. It's not just the fact they are making sure everything is safe and | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
that the Hibs fans don't run on again, I think also they are | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
allowing the Rangers fans to leave the vicinity, outside the stadium. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
There was a bit of trouble after the game, they don't want any more. I | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
know Michael said very quickly let's talk about the success, it's about | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
getting the balance right, it had the potential to get ugly. The | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
reaction did not seem to be that quick in terms of security. | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
I'm loathe to have a go at security people when it's fans that have ran | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
on from both sides. The vast majority Hibs fans. In times gone | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
by, when this was a regular thing, the police were more ready for it | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
and they zipped on quick and the horses were galloping. Those horses | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
came on there, they weren't galloping on, they took their time, | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
no-one is getting injured. How is your heart, Rob? One of the fans has | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
just slapped the window of the studio! The Hibs fans that ran in | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
front of the Rangers fans, for me, the security and the police surely | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
to goodness they have to have all eventualities covered. It was a bit | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
slow in terms of trying to get on and break things up. It is all under | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
control now. The Hibs support can see the team lifting the trophy. | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
When a crowd is moving, it is hard to stop it. When you have 2,000 or | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
3,000 people suddenly in one minute on the pitch, you have to have a lot | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
of police to stop it. We spoke about relief in terms of Hibs winning the | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
Cup, there is relief that that didn't kick-off. Anyway, the news of | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Rangers is they have received their runners-up medals inside. That has | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
happened. There will be a trophy celebration shortly. But you can | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
understand that that will be delayed until it feels like the right time | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
because of course there are so many supporters on the pitch. It looks as | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
if everybody now has been put back where they belong. Well, Rangers | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
won't mind getting the runners-up medal indoors because you don't | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
really want that. Exactly. They will feel frustrated. Embarrassed is a | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
big word. It is not a time to be happy. If you get it inside the | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
dressing room, fine... Did Hibs win it rather than Rangers losing it? | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
Overall, Hibs deserved to win. Rangers had the moment to kill the | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
game. After the 2-1, Rangers could have easily had possession and let | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Hibs run like crazy. They didn't do that. The players didn't have the | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
calmness to finish the game and maybe that has to do with the age | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
and experience because they tried for the 3-1. They had to be patient. | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
You are losing the ball every second, you know you will have some | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
trouble at the end. The applause outside was for the police who were | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
lined up on the halfway line... That is not something you hear every | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
day... And there was applause. They have moved off to the end of the | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
pitch and we are waiting on the police word and then we can have the | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
trophy celebration. It's been a long delay. Hibs players and officials | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
and everyone associated with the club won't mind waiting. As you say, | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
they have waited long enough. It is frustration. You do want to get your | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
hands on that trophy. The celebration also go on for a long | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
time. And just look back on it and finally get a chance to look back on | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
a special day. Hampden was brilliant today. The stadium was beautiful. It | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
was a lovely day. It will be seared in the memories of every single Hibs | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
fan. Rangers have been here dozens of times before. The Hibs fans, it | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
will be seared in their memories for the rest of their lives. David Gray | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
will remember this. There is not a Hibs fan that won't feel exactly the | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
same. There was a lot of talk at the semifinal about Stokes and Henderson | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
not being able to play if Celtic, their parent club, had reached the | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
final. How they made the most of that? They did. Look, you heard | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
Anthony Stokes there talking about how people had been questioning his | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
performances and things like that. He will have been questioning it | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
himself. He knows he has the ability and since he's been at Hibs, there's | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
been flashes of it. Today he put in a top drawer performance. Henderson | :18:38. | :18:47. | |
as well. He added a bit of quality for hibs in the final third coming | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
off the bench. He mixed it up a bit. The two guys there, had Celtic got | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
through to the final, might not have played. They have played their part | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
today against Rangers. Hibs are the only team out with the top tier of | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
Scottish football to win the Scottish Cup since East Fife. That | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
is a stat I carry about with me! Now you can look at some interesting | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
ones from the Hibs point of view. Yes, they are in the lower league. | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
It doesn't feel like a lower league team. It doesn't look like a lower | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
league team. The way they play doesn't look that way. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Professionally, they are. So, in a way, you would look back to that | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
East Fife team, that was a bigger thing. Were they a good team in '38? | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
I seen the tail end of them(!) History being rewritten. This was | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
the moment that settled it in stoppage-time. It looked like we | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
were bound for extra time. David Gray thought otherwise. He wanted | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
that header so badly? Yes. They had guys who can, yeah, have a proper | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
header. They were eager to finish it off before going to extra time. You | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
felt it a little bit. It still has to happen. One thing, Rangers are | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
never going to go. Sometimes that happens in football. You have it | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
yourself when you are on the park. You think, we are going to do it. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
You have to put it into action. Very much like Kenny Miller's goal in the | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
first half, the header, wanting it, David Gray there... You heard him | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
saying, as soon as the ball come in, I'm getting it! It looked like that. | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
We have all been in situations like that, you look at the opponents and | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
think, "They have gone, we have got them here." And there was a wee | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
feeling of that when the equaliser went in. It may have taken it to | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
extra time but Hibs were getting stronger. Kenny Miller probably | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
didn't deserve to be on the losing side today. For a 36-year-old, that | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
was an exhilarating performance? He was everywhere. In the last part of | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
the game, you want also to be still involved to keep the ball. He was, | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
like, chasing people back, taking slides and it was incredible what he | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
did. For him, it was quite harsh to lift the trophy. Still, all the | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
chances that Hibs had today, they were deserved winners. The moment is | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
almost with us. Hibs gathering again in the tunnel. And about to | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
re-emerge into the Hampden sunshine. Not one Hibs fan has left. They all | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
want to be here and to cherish the moment that their team finally wins | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
the Scottish Cup for the first time since 1902. 3-2 it was, with David | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Gray getting that stoppage-time winner. I think the referees will | :22:04. | :22:13. | |
get a round of applause. That will change the habits of a lifetime(!) A | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
wee word for the refs. How many bookings? I thought they managed the | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
game well. They gave two bookings. We never spoke about them. That is | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
what you want to hear. Well done. For the presentation ceremony, as | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
Steven McLean gets his award for the afternoon. It is back to Craig and | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
back to Liam. COMMENTARY: Steven McLean had a good | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
afternoon today. Him and his officials. Steven McLean, David | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
McGeachie, Andy McWilliam, Bobby Madden, John Beaton and Andrew | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
Dallas. Shortly, the stage will be free for Alan Stubbs and his Hibs | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
players, who will now be immortalised. The last time they won | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
it, 1902. Harry Rennie was the goalkeeper. | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
CHEERING It was a 1-0 victory over Celtic. | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
For those, you can now read Conrad Logan, David Gray, Paul Hanlon, Liam | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
Fontaine, Fraser Fyvie, Dylan McGeouch, Lewis Stevenson, John | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
McGinn, Darren McGregor, Anthony Stokes, Jason Cummings. The | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
substitutes who came on today - Liam Henderson, James Keatings and Niklas | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Gunnarsson. Hibernian's 14th Scottish Cup Final. They featured in | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
three of the last five. The last two, they can forget about them now. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
5-1 to Hearts and 3-0 to Celtic. They don't matter anymore. Not for | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
Hibs. This is them now on to a third triumph in this tournament. It puts | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
them alongside Kilmarnock, Clyde and St Mirren. They had to wait a fair | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
bit of time between Scottish Cup win number two and three. Craig | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
Paterson? I can name The Famous Five team one to 11. This team are | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
officially now Easter Road legends on the back of today's result. | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
Incredible. Yeah. Well, he's the captain, he's the hero, and his | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
picture and the rest of the team that he is guiding up the steps here | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
at Hampden will now be immortalised in photographs, paintings that will | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
adorn the Easter Road walls. There is a big banner over on the far side | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
that says, "Time for heroes". These men in green and white are heroes. | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
The hoodoo to end all hoodoos is over. Hibernian have won the | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
The hoodoo to end all hoodoos is Scottish Cup! It is not a dream. It | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
is reality! They lost it in 1914 to Celtic. They | :25:24. | :25:43. | |
lost it in 1923 to Celtic, the Airdrie in 1924, to Aberdeen in | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
1947, Clyde in 1958, Celtic in 1972, Rangers in 1979, Celtic in 2001, | :25:51. | :25:59. | |
Hearts and Celtic in 2012 and 2013. In 2016, the sunshine shines down on | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
these Hibernian players as they hold aloft the oldest of national | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
trophies. Let's be honest, from a big Hibee background, what does it | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
mean to anyone connected with the club, from supporters to boardroom? | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
The jokes are over for a start. It's been a long, long run. It's been a | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
long, long wait. On days like this, all of a sudden, it is worth waiting | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
for. Now, Hibs have to build on this. They have to get out of the | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
Championship. They have European football to look forward to next | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
season as well. Great sight, Darren McGregor, a big Hibee, holding the | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
trophy aloft. He's had two gruesome injuries to contend with. John | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
McGinn and Liam Henderson. Liam Henderson on loan from Celtic. A | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
wonderful day for Hibernian Football Club. What a party it is going to be | :26:58. | :27:09. | |
tonight. That end of Edinburgh will be jumping. It has been a long, long | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
wait. They deserve to celebrate. They have come to Hampden time after | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
time after time and had to trudge back along the M8 after yet another | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
defeat. Today is a day that every Hibs fan will remember. A special | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
cheer for Alan Stubbs, who was on the big-screens here as well. The | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
SFA President congratulating Alan Stubbs, who has guided Hibernian to | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
the Scottish Cup. STUDIO: Should be some party | :27:37. | :27:46. | |
tonight, when you have waited 114 years. Hibs have won the Scottish | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
Cup. My thanks to Ronald de Boer, Pat Nevin and Michael Stewart in the | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
studio. From all of us involved in this Scottish Cup Final, bye for | :27:59. | :27:59. | |
now. # Control... # When I said, "Stop | :28:00. | :28:15. | |
running away from your problems" I didn't mean | :28:16. | :28:17. | |
"Run full speed towards them"! | :28:18. | :28:21. |