FANS have debated it for years – now it's your chance to help us decide once and for all.
Which is the greatest game your team has ever played?
It's day two in our quest to find Hearts and Hibs' most memorable 90 minutes as we look back at classic matches involving the Capital clubs, selected by the Evening News.
Once all five matc
h choices have been revealed, we'll print details of how you can vote for your team's most greatest match. Did your proudest moment come during a glorious Cup final victory? Or did a thumping derby win bring you more joy?
The choice is yours.
Once all the votes are in, we'll reveal which two games are considered the greatest by you the fans.
And all readers who vote will enter a prize draw to win either a new Hearts or Hibs shirt signed by the current team.
HIBS 2, CELTIC 1
League Cup Final
9 December, 1972PAT STANTON became the first Hibs skipper in 70 years to win a major trophy when he held aloft the League Cup in 1972 with victory over Celtic.
The 2-1 win is a match that will long live in the Easter Road legend's memory – but it's the journey to the national stadium before the game that automatically springs to Stanton's mind when asked about that remarkable day.
Stanton and his team-mates had just set out from Easter Road on their way to Hampden on the team coach when it was hit by something thrown by a passer-by.
The window smashed on impact but there was no time to change bus so the Hibs squad kept on their way to Glasgow with a freezing cold wind blowing in through the broken glass. Stanton jokes that the icy breeze was the reason they arrived at Hampden so wide awake and ready for the challenge that lay ahead. He said: "I remember sitting on the bus, travelling along Easter Road on our way to the game. Someone threw something at the bus as we were passing and it smashed the window, it was in bits.
"There was no other option than to travel all the way through to Hampden like that and it was a freezing cold day.
"The one good thing was that we were all wide awake by the time that we got to the stadium!"
After a tense first half, the scoreline remained goalless at the break but manager Eddie Turnbull sent Arthur Duncan out to the left and that seemed to give a better balance and more potency to the Hibs attack.
It certainly did something to trouble Celtic as the Easter Road side opened the scoring with an hour of the match gone when Alan Gordon was fouled just outside the box by Billy McNeill. The free-kick was swung in by Alex Edwards and taken beautifully by Stanton, who took the ball away from goal before turning and firing it beyond Evan Williams in the Celtic goal.
Man-of-the-match Stanton was running the show and pushed his team forward at every opportunity and he helped carve out a second goal when he surged forward and picked out Jimmy O'Rourke, who was haring in at the near post. Stanton's cross was inch perfect and O'Rourke, pictured below, made no mistake, steering his header past Williams.
Hibs could have further added to their advantage in the minutes that followed their second goal, only for McNeill to block a close-range effort from Gordon, more by luck than design, and then again when Stanton saw his shot come back off Williams' right-hand post.
They played out the final 15 minutes on a knife-edge after Celtic pulled one back through Kenny Dalglish but held out to make Stanton the first Hibs skipper since the Scottish Cup win in 1902 to hold a major cup aloft.
Hibs: Herriot, Brownlie, Schaedler, Stanton, Black, Blackley, Edwards, O'Rourke, Gordon, Cropley, Duncan.
