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Hibs hoped that selling the Easter Road site would allow them to clear their debts and reduce costs.
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Hibs and Easter
Hearts play at Tynecastle Stadium in Gorgie, while Hibs play at Easter Road Stadium, which straddles the former boundary between Edinburgh and Leith.
Easter Road is a football stadium located in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland, which is the home ground of Scottish Premier League club Hibernian ( Hibs ).
Easter Road is also known by Hibs fans as " The Holy Ground " or " The Leith San Siro ".
Hibs first played at the present site of Easter Road in 1893.
After the publication of the Taylor Report, Hibs considered leaving Easter Road and moving to a different site, but these plans were abandoned in 1994.
Easter Road staged its first Scottish League match when Hibs joined the league in 1893.
Hibs proposed in January 1992 to sell Easter Road and move to a site owned by Farmer in Straiton.
Even though Best failed to save Hibs from relegation, gates increased dramatically, as Hibs ' attendance quadrupled for his first match at Easter Road.
Charlie and Craig Reid appeared at their Easter Road stadium for the ' Hands Off Hibs ' campaign in 1990 when Wallace Mercer, a wealthly Edinburgh businessman with direct connections to Hearts FC, attempted a takeover of the club but was defeated by fan pressure.
Robertson eventually earned the moniker " The Hammer of Hibs " as he scored for Hearts in almost every game he played against their city rivals and holds the record of scoring the most goals by any single player against Hibs by notching up 27 strikes against the Easter Road team.
Sauzée is an Easter Road legend and is known as " Le God " and " Dieu " by the Hibs fans, who voted him as their all time cult hero in a Football Focus poll carried out in 2005.
They achieved a famous Scottish Cup upset victory, however, when they defeated Hibs 3 – 2 at Easter Road in the first round of the 1937 – 38 Scottish Cup.
He left Easter Road after the media reported that there was unrest amongst the Hibs squad.
After a solid spell at Hibs, Smith was allowed to leave Easter Road for Cowdenbeath in 2006.
He entered the final month of his contract in January 2012 and started the New Year in style as he scored the third goal as Hearts defeated Hibs 3-1 at Easter Road in the New Year Edinburgh Derby on 2 January.
Hibs and site
No line was ever built, but Hibs ' interest in moving to the site was thwarted.
Hibs entered talks with Edinburgh District Council about sharing a new stadium with Hearts, but the proposed site of Ingliston was in the wrong part of the city for Hibs.
Hibs also invited Hearts to share this stadium, as their proposal for a site in Millerhill had been rejected by planners.
As this site was then regarded as being ' out of town ', Hearts would sometimes stage two matches for the price of one, or set an admission price much lower than Edinburgh derby rivals Hibs.
Hibs and would
When Hibs suffered financial difficulties in the early 1890s, the lease on Hibernian Park expired and developers started building what would become Bothwell Street.
Sir Tom Farmer took control of Hibs in 1991, but the club was still faced with the need to develop a stadium that would meet the requirements of the Taylor Report.
After these negotiations were concluded, Hibs announced in February 2010 that work would immediately begin on a new East Stand, increasing capacity to 20, 421.
It was announced on 31 January that Stein would leave Hibs for Celtic at the end of the 1964 – 65 season.
Cork Hibs beat Shels in the replay of the 1973 FAI Cup Final in Flower Lodge-the only time the final was ever played outside Dublin while Shelbourne were eliminted from the UEFA Cup by Hungarians Vasas SC in what would be their last European game for 21 years.
He signed a new contract with Hibs in October that would expire in June 2009, with Mowbray saying " Chris is a model professional for a young man of 20.
After his sacking, Sauzée stated that he had no fear that Hibs would be relegated.
The result meant that the city would have to sustain five league clubs, as Edinburgh City joined Hearts, Hibs, Leith and St Bernard's.
After two seasons with Hibs, the club announced in April 2007 that his contract would not be extended and he was free to leave the club.
Despite signing a long term contract with Hibernian, it was still speculated that Thomson would soon leave Hibs.
Although he had a slow start with Hibs and it was rumoured that he would return to Northern Ireland, he scored one of the goals in a 3 – 1 win over Celtic at Celtic Park.
His mother Heather would regularly take Brown to Hibs training sessions in Edinburgh and Motherwell, where he was coached by Davie MacMillan, Gordon Rae, John Park and Keith Wright.
Despite intense speculation that he would move to Rangers, with Rangers fans taunting Hibs fans that Brown would sign for them, Brown agreed a move to Celtic.
Hibs and them
Many republican leaders in the 1916-1923 period, among them Sean MacDermott, J. J Walsh and Rory O ' Connor, had been " Hibs " before the formation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913.
When Duntocher Hibs became defunct Drumchapel moved in, meaning that they no longer play home games in the area that gives them their name.
Sproule caused further damage to Rangers by helping Hibs eliminate them from the 2006 Scottish Cup.
Hibs and their
This is alluded to in two sketches ; once when he rants that a position should be created in the UK Government for an ' All Round Good Guy ' which should be awarded to the " Hibs player Mickey Weir ", and also when he reads the news and takes a moment to celebrate a Hibernian victory over their great city rivals, Heart of Midlothian FC.
Towards the end of the 1963 – 64 season, it became apparent that Hibs wanted to replace their manager, Walter Galbraith.
Stein led Hibs to victory in the Summer Cup, their first trophy in ten years.
When Blackburn realised that they were going to lose him to Hibs they matched their offer with an increase from £ 20 to £ 25.
Many Hibs fans, including former player Alan Gordon, wrote to The Scotsman newspaper to voice their disapproval of Hibs ' treatment of Sauzée.
" The Lodge " was regularly filled for Hibs home games, particularly for their local derby with Cork Celtic.
Riordan left Hibs as a free agent in 2011 and signed for Chinese Super League club Shaanxi Chan-Ba, but their two year contract was mutually terminated after just four months.
Hibs became the first Maltese club to have their own football pitch when the Hibernians Ground was inaugurated on 9 November 1986.
Hibs played their first European match on this pitch on 23 July 1996 when they played against Uralmash Yekaterinburg in the Intertoto Cup.
In the first leg in Malta, Hibs drew the match 2-2 against the visitors, but in their away match they were beaten 4-0.
In the domestic competitions, Hibs won their fourth league championship.
In the same season Hibs won their fifth domestic league title.
In the same year Hibs opened their own stadium, the Hibernians Ground at Corradino on the outskirts of Paola.
Hibs won their sixth Maltese Cup after beating Valletta 2-1 in the final.
As part of their training camp in Malta the Poles played against Hibernians at Corradino in the Hibs Football Ground.
In the 2001-02 season Hibs celebrated the 80th anniversary since their foundation and the 25th anniversary since Tony Bezzina was appointed president.
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