I slept in a skipping the night that I made Hibs Scottish Cup history against Rangers
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MADCAP -footballer Jason Cummings has told how he slept in a Skip The Night Hibs won the Scottish Cup for the first time in more than a century.
Cummings, 29, was part of the HIBS team that defeated Rangers 3-2 at Hampden Park On Saturday, May 21, 2016.
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Victory finished 114 years Scottish Cup Hoodoo for the Edinburgh Club and led to unprecedented parties among their fans.
The next day the team participated in an open victory parade of the top bus through the capital to them At home In Leith.
Cummings told the open Goal podcast: “That group of boys was class. It was a massacre. We were the same as the supplies and then we went on a three or four-day car.
“That is the best, then when you celebrate in the dressing room. The parade was then also incredibly all of the people, it was as 200-plus thousand, it was incredible.
“The night before that parade I woke up in a skip. I was outside all night and I swear, see one of those nights where you are non-stop on you and I really like it run Beyond this skip.
“And Maat, I am f ****** shattered and I just jumped in and fell asleep.
“The sun woke me up and” you have the parade today. “I had to jump out of the skip and put on the suit, immediately back outside. I thought it was great.
‘The (the parade day) was class drink again’.
“We were just heroes. It was class. Really good.”
Cummings, who grew up Heart Fan, became a hero at Hibs.
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He left the club for Nottingham Forest the following year and was broadcast on three loan movements, including a spell at Rangers.
He also played for Dundee for a life -changing move to Australia.
He is currently playing the leading role for Indian Super league Champions Mohun Bagan, located in Kolkata.
The peakwho also plays for the Australian national team, despite the fact that he is Scotland in a friendly representative, said he likes life in India.
He said, “Me Love It. It is a different world there, but football is a different class.
“We get 60,000 or 70,000 each game, and the fans just love football.
‘When I went for the first time, I thought clearly cricket Is there huge, but we are in Kolkata and they all love football … (I am the) most important man, bigger than the Beatles there. I can’t walk through the streets. “
He added: “It’s chaos, with the fans. As soon as we to leave (The hotel) – The stadium is immediately over the road – it should be a five -minute drive, but it takes us an hour to get there.
“There are torches – I saw a ten year old on one horse With a flare to the game. “
Despite a reputation for his exuberant behavior, he said he enjoys quieter activities in India.
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He said: “With regard to the lifestyle, there is not much to do. We go out for a small game of golf with the boys, but I play a bit to play chess. I’m good at chess, I love it.
“There is so much time there. When we go back course We are just in the hotel, so it’s the same food, everyone is in it, the manager is also in it and all coaches.
“There is one tennis court There … a little poker. We go on the road, but as soon as you set off, you just get busy, like good.
“Because there are not many tourists, you stand out like a sore thumb. They see me, blonde her And all that, they are just on you for photos, photos, photos.
“When mine mamma Came by, she was there like Joanna Lumley. She was surrounded, non-stop, you can’t go anywhere.
“It is a city of joy, kolkata, but just so many people.
“The craziest thing I’ve seen, just every day … Cows just take to the streets, goats, lost dog Run on the training pitch and that. “
But he said that India offered him something that he would not find anywhere else.
He added: “It just came about, they were interested and they wanted me.
“I looked a little bit and, I don’t know, the fan base and such.
I saw spell And 60,000 or 70,000 I thought that’s a bit that.
“I will go there and try it … Only the atmosphere at the games, that they all love it, I just thought where you can get it differently?
“I wouldn’t get that anywhere else.”
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