Apologies. Thanks for pointing this out.

... having secured Scottish qualification for the 1986 World Cup. In spite of that triumph, one of the blackest days in Scottish football history. As Gayle says here, it was “The night a nation cried together.”

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3/3 The turning point in the game, attended by 115,000, was Lugar man Sam Clemie’s penalty save from Tully Craig, Killie going on to score two second half goals. It was the first ever penalty save in a cup final.’

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2/3 Having beaten Glasgow Uni, Bo'Ness, Albion Rovers, Raith Rovers and then Celtic 1-0 in the semi-final Killie were expected to get a drubbing in the final, Rangers having lost only one of their previous 43 league and cup games...

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Nevertheless we are indulging the great and talented John Daly here because he addresses the issue with humour and skill! In fact (though he wouldn’t admit it as slam poetry is new fangled) this would make a great slam poem or rap. We’ll get the boombox, John!’

‘There are too many poems about the old days. Folk are always going on about how better it was when we had rationing, national service, tanner baws etc etc etc. I catch myself doing it too, ‘we used to have little rosy ten shilling notes’ I was enthusing to a really bored child the other day.

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Cathkin Park, the home of Third Lanark and a prominent part of the Football's Square Mile is one of the most evocative spectral football landscapes. In this compact observational poem Calum Ewen strips away some of the years, reveals what’s left.’

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All you have to do to join in is write a few lines about your team. Doesn’t have to rhyme or anything! Write it in the comments here, along with what team you support. Do it! Unleash the muse!

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I will add this to the renga, meaning even Rangers have scored a goal in the cup final which is more than Celtic have and they’re actually in it! So far it’s Aberdeen 3, Celtic 0, the rest 27.

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Hibs have had some fantastic players, folk who if the light was at the right angle and you’d had a few pints you’d dream were world class, or at least might have been. Here’s Dave MacKay thinking along the same lines in a fabulous poem about the gifted Scott Allan.’

There were ten penalty takers in total that night and eight of them were Scots. Unhappily Pat Stanton missed the very first penalty and that great Leeds United team scraped home.

'Unfortunately there has been no progress on making me Hibs Writer in Residence for their 150th anniversary year but I live in hope. I’ve been a Hibee since watching the 1973 Penalty shoot out against Leeds United at Easter Road in the EUFA Cup.