Pat Stanton is a Hibs legend. With his silky skills and natural leadership, Pat captained Hibs to three trophies and later went on to manage the team. Now he chooses his ultimate Hibernian dream team. In Pat Stanton's Hibernian Dream Team Pat devotes a chapter to each position and evaluates the many outstanding players who have worn the green and white during his lifetime. He looks at their strengths and weaknesses, reveals their character and tells personal anecdotes about many of the players he has known over the years. He also debates the merits of Hibs' post-war managers and chooses his top team boss. Written with humour, honesty and insight, Pat Stanton's Hibernian Dream Team will be one of the most talked about books on the club for many years.
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Pat Stanton made 680 appearances for Hibs in the 1960s and 70s and then spent two seasons at Celtic. He won numerous medals as a player and also played for Scotland before starting a managerial career. Ted Brack is a retired headteacher and a lifelong Hibs supporter. He is the author of several bestselling Hibs books There is a Bonny Fitba Team, The Life and Times of Last Minute Reilly and There's Only One Franck Sauzee.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Generally speaking, football fans are a pretty argumentative lot; discussion and disputation is, after all, part of the fun of following `The Beautiful Game'. However, task any group of Hibernian supporters with deciding the status of Pat Stanton, and you would get complete unanimity. Great great nephew of Hibs' first captain, Michael Whelaghan, and from a family that was died in the wool Hibernian, Paddy Stanton was the `fan on the pitch', alongside his Holy Cross Academy buddy, Jimmy O'Rourke, the mainstay of Turnbull's Tornadoes, that 70s team who were the natural successors to the Famous Five.
The support loved Pat because he was a Hibee, just like them, but he was so much more: Scotland's Player of the Year in 1970, Hibs, and, far too occasionally, Scotland's, Captain Courageous, classed by Tommy Docherty as `better than Bobby Moore' and chosen by Jock Stein as the anchor of a double winning team at Celtic at the end of his career, giving him the two medals he hadn't been able to capture with his beloved Hibs. Pat was a class act - in defence or in midfield, scoring goals, making them, or stopping them; like a Boys' Own hero, he could do the lot. We puzzled at graffiti in the 60s and 70s that proclaimed that Eric Clapton was God, because we knew he wasn't - that epithet was reserved for a good looking man in a green and white shirt, with the number 4 on his back.
Now, in collaboration with Ted Brack, Pat has chosen his Hibernian Dream Team, and taken the opportunity to cast his mind back over the Hibernian greats that he has watched and played alongside over the years.
Fans of all ages will get something special from this very accessible volume.... Read more ›
The support loved Pat because he was a Hibee, just like them, but he was so much more: Scotland's Player of the Year in 1970, Hibs, and, far too occasionally, Scotland's, Captain Courageous, classed by Tommy Docherty as `better than Bobby Moore' and chosen by Jock Stein as the anchor of a double winning team at Celtic at the end of his career, giving him the two medals he hadn't been able to capture with his beloved Hibs. Pat was a class act - in defence or in midfield, scoring goals, making them, or stopping them; like a Boys' Own hero, he could do the lot. We puzzled at graffiti in the 60s and 70s that proclaimed that Eric Clapton was God, because we knew he wasn't - that epithet was reserved for a good looking man in a green and white shirt, with the number 4 on his back.
Now, in collaboration with Ted Brack, Pat has chosen his Hibernian Dream Team, and taken the opportunity to cast his mind back over the Hibernian greats that he has watched and played alongside over the years.
Fans of all ages will get something special from this very accessible volume.... Read more ›
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is quite simply the book all fans of Hibernian Football Club have been waiting for ; - and it is highly appropriate that Pat Stanton has taken this subject on board. Stanton played with distinction for Hibs from 1963 to 1976 making an incredible 680 appearances in the process and captaining the club to major honours.
Naturally, making a choice of a 'Dream Team' is incredibly difficult given the many world-class players that have graced Easter Road down the years but Stanton does this with aplomb. His final choice is a fantastic Hibs team that would send fear and trepidation to any side it faced.
A great book from a living legend.
Naturally, making a choice of a 'Dream Team' is incredibly difficult given the many world-class players that have graced Easter Road down the years but Stanton does this with aplomb. His final choice is a fantastic Hibs team that would send fear and trepidation to any side it faced.
A great book from a living legend.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By K. Watters
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Ideal Christmas / birthday present for the Hibs fan, particularly one who remembers Pat's great team from the early 1970's.
Great read and easy to relate to exactly who Pat is writing about, with some interesting / funny anecdotes.
Great read and easy to relate to exactly who Pat is writing about, with some interesting / funny anecdotes.
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By Euan Mackay
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Touted by hibs fans as some kind of sporting hero, I entered into the reading of this book with an open mind, freshly laundered and willing to be entertained. Sadly I found it less than entertaining, and it was, in fact, awful.
Dream Team? More like a nightmare.
Dream Team? More like a nightmare.
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