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John Millar
Paul Ritchie
Both scored twice wearing no 3 in the 1990s but weren't playing left back.

So last time was George Thomson with 2 penalties

Mon 31 Aug 1959 19:30
Hearts 8 The British Army 1
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Thomas Frew scored two in
Sat 18 Aug 1900 16:00
Hibernian 3 Hearts 2
East of Scotland League

And Nick Ross scored five back in 1884

Sat 08 Mar 1884
Hearts 12 West Calder 1
Friendly

Though unlikely He was playing what we would think as a 'left back'

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Hackney Hearts

Another one for the statisticians (sorry if it's been covered on another thread):

 

Have we ever been awarded 5 penalties in our first 4 competitive matches before?

 

5 in 4 at any stage of the season must be pretty rare, I'd imagine.

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Only previous Occurrence of being awarded penalties in 4 consecutive competitive games.

Thu 30 Jul 2015 Hearts 4 Arbroath 2 League Cup (Sow Osman) Scored    
Sun 02 Aug 2015 Hearts 4 St Johnstone 3 Premiership (Sow Osman) Missed    
Sat 08 Aug 2015 Dundee 1 Hearts 2 Premiership (Delgado Juanma) Scored    
Wed 12 Aug 2015 Hearts 2 Motherwell 0 Premiership (Reilly Gavin) Scored

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10 hours ago, Hearts Heritage said:

Only previous Occurrence of being awarded penalties in 4 consecutive competitive games.

Thu 30 Jul 2015 Hearts 4 Arbroath 2 League Cup (Sow Osman) Scored    
Sun 02 Aug 2015 Hearts 4 St Johnstone 3 Premiership (Sow Osman) Missed    
Sat 08 Aug 2015 Dundee 1 Hearts 2 Premiership (Delgado Juanma) Scored    
Wed 12 Aug 2015 Hearts 2 Motherwell 0 Premiership (Reilly Gavin) Scored

 

Thank you HH! (from HH)

Interesting that it was also the first 4 games of a season - and also under Robbie. Must be a reasonable chance of setting a new record with a game against Arbroath. I'd forgotten that 2015-16 opened with 7 straight wins (5 league, 2 league cup) - hopefully we can do even better this time...

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12 hours ago, Hearts Heritage said:

John Millar
Paul Ritchie
Both scored twice wearing no 3 in the 1990s but weren't playing left back.

So last time was George Thomson with 2 penalties

Mon 31 Aug 1959 19:30
Hearts 8 The British Army 1
Floodlight Friendly

Thomas Frew scored two in
Sat 18 Aug 1900 16:00
Hibernian 3 Hearts 2
East of Scotland League

And Nick Ross scored five back in 1884

Sat 08 Mar 1884
Hearts 12 West Calder 1
Friendly

Though unlikely He was playing what we would think as a 'left back'

Superb, thanks for this 👏👏👏

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I should know this, as I did play this formation in my younger days, but I think a number three was a wing-half in a 2-3-5 setup?

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1 hour ago, davemclaren said:

I should know this, as I did play this formation in my younger days, but I think a number three was a wing-half in a 2-3-5 setup?

Number 3 was left back.                                            1

                                                                          2                            3

                                                                 4                     5                         6

                                                         7               8          9           10                11

                      

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8 minutes ago, john1951 said:

Number 3 was left back.                                            1

                                                                          2                            3

                                                                 4                     5                         6

                                                         7               8          9           10                11

                      

 

The formatting of that on mobile looks hilarious btw :lol:

 

6, 10 and 11 playing on a different pitch! 

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2 minutes ago, tian447 said:

 

The formatting of that on mobile looks hilarious btw :lol:

 

6, 10 and 11 playing on a different pitch! 

Football was complicated in those days. 😎

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4 minutes ago, tian447 said:

 

The formatting of that on mobile looks hilarious btw :lol:

 

6, 10 and 11 playing on a different pitch! 

In the Wheatfield getting pies and Bovril for their team mates. Football was different in those days. 

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2 hours ago, David Black said:

George Thomson ?

Went to Everton at the same time as Alec Young. He later got invnolved in some kind of match fixing/or something else along with a couple of Sheffield Wednesday players. I'm thing Swan and Lane. Can't quite remember as it was a long time again. Think they all got suspended.

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19 minutes ago, iwasthere1954 said:

Went to Everton at the same time as Alec Young. He later got invnolved in some kind of match fixing/or something else along with a couple of Sheffield Wednesday players. I'm thing Swan and Lane. Can't quite remember as it was a long time again. Think they all got suspended.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Thomson_(footballer,_born_1936)

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38 minutes ago, iwasthere1954 said:

Went to Everton at the same time as Alec Young. He later got invnolved in some kind of match fixing/or something else along with a couple of Sheffield Wednesday players. I'm thing Swan and Lane. Can't quite remember as it was a long time again. Think they all got suspended.

Took all our penalties in that era and I can't remember him missing. 

Perhaps HH can help. 

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2 hours ago, jambos are go! said:

Kenny Black scored a hat trick including  two penalties  but not sure he was playing  left back or left midfield.

Against Dumbarton, 5-1. First hat trick I ever saw. I think Whittaker (or George Cowie) would have been playing so KB was in midfield

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Test the historian with this query ... 4 left footed goals in game ( 3 scorers ) 

I know Rudi had a few braces and hat tricks but unusual to see four great goals with the left peg . 

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6 hours ago, john1951 said:

Number 3 was left back.                                            1

                                                                          2                            3

                                                                 4                     5                         6

                                                         7               8          9           10                11

                      


 

Total Football 😁

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4 hours ago, luckydug said:

Took all our penalties in that era and I can't remember him missing. 

Perhaps HH can help. 

 

Another full back, Bobby Kirk, was the penalty taker before George Thomson. We had some prolific goal scorers in those days, and I always wondered why the let defenders take penalties.

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1 minute ago, Maple Leaf said:

 

Another full back, Bobby Kirk, was the penalty taker before George Thomson. We had some prolific goal scorers in those days, and I always wondered why the let defenders take penalties.

Used to wonder that myself. 

Obviously the two players quoted but Rangers had Eric Caldow on pens. 

Hibs had Joe Davis, Celtic had Tommy Gemmell. I'm sure there's more but they stick in my mind. 

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9 hours ago, David Black said:

George Thomson ?

The very first attacking full back in Britain at the time.

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8 hours ago, iwasthere1954 said:

Went to Everton at the same time as Alec Young. He later got invnolved in some kind of match fixing/or something else along with a couple of Sheffield Wednesday players. I'm thing Swan and Lane. Can't quite remember as it was a long time again. Think they all got suspended.

You're doing George Thomson a grave disservice. He was not involved in the Peter Swan et al match fixing case and therefore was never suspended.

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9 hours ago, jambobas said:

You're doing George Thomson a grave disservice. He was not involved in the Peter Swan et al match fixing case and therefore was never suspended.

That's what I thought as well. 

Is the poster not getting confused with former Celtic goalie Dick Beatie. 

Apologies to Dick Beatie if I'm wrong. 

Sheffield Wed were involved iirc

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11 hours ago, chrystaf said:

The very first attacking full back in Britain at the time.

Yes, and before Tommy Gemmell.

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9 hours ago, luckydug said:

That's what I thought as well. 

Is the poster not getting confused with former Celtic goalie Dick Beatie. 

Apologies to Dick Beatie if I'm wrong. 

Sheffield Wed were involved iirc

Yes, Dick Beattie was involved along with the main players - Peter Swan, David Layne and Tony Kay, all of Sheffield Wednesday. There were several other minor players involved, and the organiser was ex-player Jimmy Gauld. All were banned from football for life and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The FA allowed the players to appeal their ban in 1971, and several of them played again for a few seasons.

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21 hours ago, luckydug said:

Used to wonder that myself. 

Obviously the two players quoted but Rangers had Eric Caldow on pens. 

Hibs had Joe Davis, Celtic had Tommy Gemmell. I'm sure there's more but they stick in my mind. 

Sandy Jardine for Rangers and Hearts occasionally

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Tom Hardy’s Dug

There will be more pens this season but maybe we are seeing the “old firm” argument in effect:

 

The more you are attacking and in the oppo box the more pens you’ll get.

 

Sorry 😬

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21 minutes ago, Tom Hardy’s Dug said:

There will be more pens this season but maybe we are seeing the “old firm” argument in effect:

 

The more you are attacking and in the oppo box the more pens you’ll get.

 

Sorry 😬

no need to be sorry i agree we will get many more this season

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iwasthere1954
On 18/10/2020 at 00:48, jambobas said:

You're doing George Thomson a grave disservice. He was not involved in the Peter Swan et al match fixing case and therefore was never suspended.

As I said it was a long time ago. I seem to remember George being mentioned at the time although if as you say it wasn't anything to do with match fixing I can't think what it was. Certainly not wanting to blacken George's name as he was a superb full back.

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On 17/10/2020 at 21:45, luckydug said:

Used to wonder that myself. 

Obviously the two players quoted but Rangers had Eric Caldow on pens. 

Hibs had Joe Davis, Celtic had Tommy Gemmell. I'm sure there's more but they stick in my mind. 

I think Joe Davis was Hibs top scorer one season due to the amount of penalties they got. Hibs had a few players who could dive for Scotland, Stevenson, Cormack, Stein to name but 3. 

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3 hours ago, iwasthere1954 said:

As I said it was a long time ago. I seem to remember George being mentioned at the time although if as you say it wasn't anything to do with match fixing I can't think what it was. Certainly not wanting to blacken George's name as he was a superb full back.

George Thomson could also play left half and inside left. In fact I think he scored a hat trick one game playing inside left. A goal scoring fullback a few years before Tommy Gemmill.

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Worthing Jambo
On 18/10/2020 at 19:42, Tom Hardy’s Dug said:

There will be more pens this season but maybe we are seeing the “old firm” argument in effect:

 

The more you are attacking and in the oppo box the more pens you’ll get.

 

Sorry 😬

I think you are right too.

The more you are attacking, the more chance you have of the opposition giving away a foul and penalties.

I think we have seen it already this season.

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