Hibs new Facebook player of the month Lewis Stevenson is hoping to upset his partner’s family today when he takes on boyhood favourites Raith Rovers in the William Hill Scottish Cup at Easter Road.
Although he is sure that Julia will want Hibs to triumph, the same can’t be said for her family who are regulars at Starks Park, as he was growing up.
Speaking at the club’s weekly press conference, the versatile midfielder / defender who grew up in Kirkcaldy said: “I used to go to a few of the games. My school was just at the back of the stadium and we used to get tickets through that.
“I was at the cup final when they beat Celtic although I was only five or six. That was a good Rovers team. Our goalkeeping coach Scott Thomson played for them that day. I know a few of the names and they pop up from time to time, like Danny Lennon. But I am a Hibs fan now although I still look out for their results.
When asked if he know the words of the Raith Rivers anthem ‘Geordie Munro’ which is about a young Fifer who wants to emigrate to America, but his girlfriend persuades him to stay by singing “Oh, no, no, no, no, Geordie Munro, No, no, no, no my wee laddie, I don’t want to go to Idaho, I’d rather stay here in Kirkcaldy,” Stevenson confessed that he had sung the song to his team-mates last year; “I used to know all the words to Geordie Munro, although I don’t know if I could belt it out now,” he said. “I have done it before though. It was actually during pre-season in Spain last summer.
“We all had to sing a song in front of everyone else and that was my one. I think I only managed the first verse, but it wasn’t the worst, there were a few worse than me. It was the only song I could think of at the time. A few of the boys before me had got up and sung football songs, and that was the only one I roughly knew the words to. So I had to go for that one.”
Stevenson is likely to be up against on-loan left back Callum Booth who moved to the Fife club in the summer after falling out of favour with former boss Pat Fenlon.
“I wish him all the best; I just hope he doesn’t have his best game on Saturday. It’s a strange situation, although having never been on loan myself I don’t know what it’s like. But you just have to focus on your own game.
“You can’t really think you are playing against your parent club. You just have to do the best for the team you are playing for and I am sure he will. He’s a good guy and a good professional.
“By all accounts, he has done really well there this season. I have spoken to a few Rovers fans and they said he has been brilliant. So I am glad he is doing well. I just hope he is not in top form against us.
“I know Fraser [Mullen] and they have a few ex-Hearts boys I have played against, Jason Thomson, Calum Elliot and Gordon Smith. They have got a good team.”
It is a mark of how well Stevenson has done since the arrival of Terry Butcher that he was voted the club’s first Facebook player of the month with 44.2% of the vote, beating James Collins with 30% and Liam Craig with 7.2%.
He said “I would just like to thank the fans, who voted for me. Getting recognition from the supporters is always special and hopefully we can give them all something to cheer about on Saturday.”
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John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
