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Persevered Aidan Smith

Persevered By Aidan Smith

Persevered by Aidan Smith


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The story of Hibs' 2016 Scottish Cup victory

Persevered Summary

Persevered: The Epic Story of Hibs 2016 Scottish Cup Campaign by Aidan Smith

One hundred and fourteen years and no Scottish Cup for Hibernian. It could be considered the biggest curse in football. Cock-up after near-miss after not-a-hope. Over the years Hearts fans have even tried to get the term Hibsing it to chuck away a vital game from a favourable position included in the dictionary. Every year would come the mention of 1902, the last time Hibs had won the cup. 1902, when Buffalo Bill still alive and the bra was newly invented. And then came 2016 and a run all the way to the final at Hampden. Hibs couldnt finally, at long, long last, win the infernal, blasted thing ... could they?

Aidan Smith takes us on the turbulent journey that was Hibs 2016 Scottish Cup Campaign, through a season of peaks and troughs which, despite everything, finally delivered that elusive Cup victory Hibs fans have craved for so long.

Persevered Reviews

'The story cannot be better told than by Aidan Smith, an Edinburgh native sentenced not only to watch continued failure but forced to write about it.Perseveredis thus intensely personal. It is also wonderfully wide-ranging, dramatic, moving and informative. It is smashing stuff ... It is about that moment when everything works out on the pitch and we are, in the midst of mortgages and existential angst, amazed about just how marvellous this makes us feel'

-- Hugh Macdonald * Herald *

'the delightfully quirky, witty and exquisitely rendered story of Hibernian winning the Scottish cup'

* Sunday Herald, The Best Books for Sporty Types, 2016 *

About Aidan Smith

Aidan Smith is a journalist for The Scotsman, a five-times-winner in the Scottish Press Awards, the author of two previous books, Heartfelt and Union Jock, and a Hibernian fan.

Additional information

GOR008563598
9781909715479
1909715476
Persevered: The Epic Story of Hibs 2016 Scottish Cup Campaign by Aidan Smith
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Birlinn General
2016-11-04
240
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