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McGrory Scored And Hampden Roared

Robbie Kennedy Bennett

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Was this the day, was this the hour?
When Glasgow announced spectator power.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 McGrory scored and Hampden roared,
Can anyone confirm with living proof?
If stands in that day were covered,
And the voice of man was smothered,
The noise would’ve lifted the roof?

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Was this the day, was this the hour?
When football announced spectator power.
I’ve seen the written word,
McGrory scored and Hampden roared,
The whole of Glasgow heard.

Notes

Scotland v England
Hampden Park, Glasgow
1 April 1933
Attendance 134,710

With eight minutes to go Jimmy McGrory of Scotland blasted the winning goal past Hibbs the England goalkeeper to take Scotland into a 2-1 lead.

If the terraces of Hampden Park had been roofed then, the noise of jubilant Scot’s would have lifted them off.

Quote from Bob McPhail who played and passed the ball to Jimmy McGrory that day, ‘If I knew nothing about the ‘Hampden Roar’ before that moment, I certainly felt the full force of it right there and then’. ‘The noise from the crowd must have broken every window within a mile radius’.

The line in my poem ‘I’ve seen the written word’ refers to the book
Heroes Are Forever by John Cairney.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/mcgrory-scored-and-hampden-roared/