CRUSTY THE CLOWN – 3.5/10 – Wandered about like he’d escaped the nursing home at morning meds time. Somehow started the game playing left wing as they broke clean through his channel and papped us for one. Wrote a nice postcard back home from ‘Edinburg’ about the great view he had of Hibs second goal, though was bemused about all the noisy Scots behind the goal nets yelling at him about marking and jumping and playing
something called ‘offsides’. Survived the 90 with a little more composure, but he really would have been better off with the rest of the tourists up the castle.
Callum McGregor, Hibs v Celtic. 22 February 2025.Photo: Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
CALMAC – 6/10 – Captain Drained. But not defatigable – appeared gripped by latent fatigue through the opening spell then found his mojo as the game wore on and took control as always; probing, bursting, conducting. Will have felt he’d done enough of a recovery job to warrant a point.
Arne Engels, Hibs v Celtic. 22 February 2025.Photo: Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
THE TERMINATOR – 6.5/10 – He growled around, seemingly with intent amid the obvious frustration as we malfunctioned. You felt he might be the man to spark something if we could get him on the ball. Set about a one-man revenge mission and clattered a couple of them in quick succession to try and liven up his cohorts. That didn’t happen, but our good moments were when he was involved, getting at them, creating something.
HIGHLAND TOFFEE – 3/10 – Luke who’s missing. Bewildering absence from the crafty, and normally influential, baller. Today should have been made for him to stake a claim but he was swallowed up by Hibs’ defensive lines and failed completely to impose himself on the game. Mercifully hooked.
