BITESIZE | John McGinn: Sunshine on Leith
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Today’s story comes from John McGinn, who recalls winning with Hibernian at Hampden in 2016 in a dramatic match against Rangers, to claim the club’s first Scottish Cup in over a century.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll |
| 0:19.0 | hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:23.6 | All of them come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, which you can find by searching |
| 0:29.0 | on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.4 | This time we're with Scotland International and Aston Villestar, John McGinn, |
| 0:38.9 | and we're talking about winning the Scottish Cup with Hibbs in 2016. We touch on the build-up, we touch on the game itself, |
| 0:47.6 | but mostly we talk about that pitch invasion and that's all. The whole year, I remember me to have found the |
| 0:58.0 | whole year, I remember me to have |
| 1:00.0 | fans in the street and they used to go off and win that cup I'm on the pitch here and the |
| 1:04.3 | they actually used to so I don't know how the I don't know how the police never knew that |
| 1:08.1 | they were coming on anyway so we'd lost the we'd lost the League Cup final to Ross County at handing. |
| 1:16.1 | But it could have been an incredible season. |
| 1:18.0 | Now, you probably wouldn't swap it for the world |
| 1:20.6 | because if we win the League Cup or got promoted through the playoffs |
| 1:25.5 | which full credit to fall cut they not opposite but we might not want to cut in the manner |
| 1:30.4 | that we done but what a what a bunch of boys, honestly it would have been a crime for |
| 1:36.7 | us not to have a trophy that season. And then the game was just an unbelievable spectacle. |
| 1:43.1 | People down here don't realize a bit sort of atmosphere, |
| 1:46.6 | they build up with the we stayed at the Cameron House in Lott Lomond, |
| 1:51.5 | Felt a Scottish pop star than the night before, treated wonder in lot loam and then you come to the game and it was just, |
| 1:59.0 | I could have been, you could have fit a hundred thousand and that stayed in that day. |
| 2:03.0 | The atmosphere was incredible. |
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