Hearts 2-2 Celtic + Alan Stubbs & Scott Allan Hibs Reunion! | Keeping The Ball On The Ground
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Fitba Media Ltd
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
We've got a great show for you this week as Andy Halliday and Slaney are joined by former Celtic defender and iconic Hibs Manager, Alan Stubbs who is reunited with his former player who was at the heart of transfer saga during his time at Easter Road, Scott Allan!
There's some phenomenal chat on their days together in Edinburgh as well as great career stories from Alan plus the lads discuss the battle that took place at Tynecastle between Hearts and Celtic which saw Derek McInnes' side maintain their 6-point lead over Martin O'Neill's men after an entertaining 2-2 draw.
Plenty to discuss from the game and the rest of the weekend's SPFL Scottish Premiership action as Danny Rohl made it 8 wins in a row for Rangers as they cut the gap with Hearts to 4 points plus Falkirk edge closer to Hibs after a convincing 4-1 for John McGlynn. Will Aberdeen still be looking at the Falkirk Gaffer even after their chaotic 6-2 win over David Martindale's struggling Livingston side?
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, Melkirikin'am! |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah! |
| 0:08.0 | Alan Stumbboy, What I guess this week, man, I'm buzzing. Stubbsy, I can't wait to talk about the 2016 Scottish Cup final for the 18th time last year. How are you, mate? I'm very good, yeah, I'm very good. Obviously, thanks for having me. I'm buzzing, mate. know this is the biggest podcast in Scotland, so it's nice to be honest. Take that out of. No much competition, right? When was the last time we used to, met? Marlaren. What was it, bad, man? He was the reason why I got the bullet. That would be the reason why he kept his joke. |
| 0:58.0 | He must have so many good members of working together those. I was young at the time. |
| 1:02.0 | A lot of mostly good things, were I? |
| 1:04.0 | That's what I would say, especially at Hibbs. |
| 1:07.0 | For me at Hibbs time is one of my favourite parts of my career. I think the squad that we kind of got together was. Yeah, it was good. As much it was a mix, I'm one of my favourite parts of my career. Like the squad that we kind of got together was... |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, it was good. |
| 1:12.6 | As much it was a mix of people from all over the place, but it was just managed. |
| 1:17.6 | At one point I thought it was like it was a, I was building a bunch of misfits at one point. |
| 1:22.6 | Come in, Zay. |
| 1:23.6 | Obviously when I met Scotty early on, I knew about in terms of his quality, but maybe it was a player that was just lost his way in terms of coming to England, wanted to get back up. |
| 1:35.3 | And I thought it was a platform. And to be fair to Scotty, and I'm not just saying it because he's here. |
| 1:39.3 | I've said that he was brilliant for me because it attracted other players because of the quality that he had. |
| 1:48.0 | Obviously Stokes, when I look at Stokesy, Stokesy was just a big gamble |
| 1:52.0 | because I didn't know what I was going to get. |
| 1:55.0 | What a gamble, but then, but in terms of, I've got to like thank Leanne and everything then, |
| 2:00.0 | because they back me and to obviously bring Stokesy in terms of, I've got to like thank Leanne and everything then because they back me. |
| 2:01.9 | And to obviously bring Stokesy in terms of financial commitment was a big gamble for them. |
| 2:08.0 | They weren't too short. |
| 2:08.9 | And I was just saying to before, Slaney, is that with someone like that, the only way I think they work is if the other players accept it. |
| 2:20.3 | And to be fair to the players, they made it easy for me because they did accept Stokesy |
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