Name: Steven Hislop DOB: 14/07/78 POB: Edinburgh Position: Striker Clubs: East Stirlingshire, Ross County, Inverness CT, Gillingham, Livingston, Raith Rovers, Arbroath, East Fife. International caps: 0 “Hissy” grew up an Edinburgh born Hearts fan idolising John Robertson having witnessed most of the Gorgie legend’s career after being born in 1978. As all impressionable youngster he […]
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Name: Hans Eskilsson DOB: 23/01/66 POB: Ostersund, Jamtland County, Sweden Position: Striker, centre-back, full-back Clubs: Ostersund, Norrkoping, Hammarby, Sporting Lisbon, Braga, Estoril, AIK, Vasalunds, Hearts International caps: 8 Having been a successful youth player with Ostersund, Eskillion made the step up to the club’s first team in 1982. He would play three seasons before […]
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Name: Simo Johannes Valakari DOB: 28/04/73 POB: Helsinki, Finland Position: Centre midfield, full-back Clubs: FC Kontu, FinnPa, Motherwell, Derby County, FC Dallas, TPS Turku International Caps: 32 The combative midfielder was a product of the Kapylan Pallo youth system but it would be at neighbouring Kontu where he first made the breakthrough in Finnish football, […]
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Nigel Quashie 09/21/20120 Comments Name: Nigel Francis Quashie DOB: 20/07/78 POB: London, England Position: Centre midfield, left midfield Clubs: Queens Park Rangers, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Southampton, West Ham United, Birmingham City (loan), Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan), Milton Keynes Dons (loan), IR. Scotland caps: 14 Quashie started his professional career at Queens Park Rangers. He was highly […]
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Name: Stephen Glass DOB: 23/05/76 POB: Dundee Position(s): Left back, left midfield, centre midfield. Clubs: Aberdeen, Newcastle United, Watford, Hibernian, Dunfermline Athletic, Carolina RailHawks Scotland caps: 1 Stephen Glass served his apprenticeship at Aberdeen and broke into the first team during a best forgotten 1994/95 season when the Dons only avoided relegation thanks to a […]
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Lars Zetterlund helped break Dundee United hearts long before he won them over. Zetterlund was a second half substitute in the first leg of the 1987 UEFA Cup final, which Goteborg (Gothenburg) won 1-0 and used to their advantage by netting early in the second leg, giving United a three-goal deficit they couldn’t overcome. That […]
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A Hibs fan growing up, Eddie May realised his dream by signing for Hibs in 1985 after initially being apart of the Dundee United youth setup. He would play over 100 league games for Hibs in four years, quickly establishing himself as a first team regular under Alex Miller. May was a technically gifted midfielder, […]
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Keigan was a hot young property in Scotland at a time when the national game was booming financially. Due to this, you would not have been surprised, early in his career, if Parker went on and commanded a fee of £1million for St Johnstone. However, after such early progress, the rise came to a halt […]
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Young Eddie struggled to find a foot-hold in Scottish football so, very early in his career, he took the mature decision to move to the Irish League and sign for Sligo Rovers. In Ireland, he made his name as a young goalscorer in the top flight, before proving himself capable in Scotland after signing, and […]
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We would write something negative about the career of Nigel Pepper, but we’re afraid he’ll turn up at Terrace Tenement and half us all down. So, with that in mind, how cool is it that this guy was once signed by Chris Kamara? Imagine that? Every time Soccer Saturday is switched on in the Pepper […]
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