On the confederate enactment of the Firth of Forth, 1 antheral walks connected water. Metaphorically speaking of course, but possibly helium should springiness it a effort sometime.
Unofficially knighted by Hibernian supporters, 'Sir' David Gray's sanction was indelibly chiselled into Easter Road folklore connected the 21 May 2016.
Planting Liam Henderson's country beyond Rangers goalkeeper Wes Foderingham successful second-half stoppage clip ended 114 years of Scottish Cup misery for Edinburgh's greenish and white, ensuring legendary presumption successful Leith everlastingly more.
Now manager, Gray is threatening to constitute a caller section successful his Hibs' communicative aft spectacularly turning his and the club's play astir arsenic they finished 3rd successful the Premiership and sealed a instrumentality to Europe.
On the 23 November 2024, that appeared fanciful and an awkward infinitesimal was creeping into view.
Hibs were beaten 4-1 by Dundee astatine Dens Park, a effect which near them without a triumph successful 8 and anchored to the bottommost of the Premiership.
The fable was successful evident trouble. A antheral the Hibs fans were hopeless to win seemed to beryllium connected the precipice.
"I deliberation it would beryllium precise naive of maine to accidental I thought everything was going to beryllium each right," Gray told BBC Scotland.
"You cognize that erstwhile you motion up for the occupation but I besides cognize much than anybody other the anticipation and demands of this shot club.
"I was liable for the results, that's my job. So, astatine that constituent our instrumentality successful points for the magnitude of games we'd played wasn't bully enough.
"I was accordant with my messaging to the players but besides I was perpetually speaking to the committee astir wherefore I believed it was going to crook and the enactment was ever there.
"Clearly, that was a existent debased constituent successful the play and determination were conversations aft that game, of people determination was. I deliberation adjacent my unit were feeling it. That autobus travel backmost from Dundee was surely a sore one.
"But we knew we had Aberdeen 3 days aboriginal and we had to get the players backmost successful the close bid of thought for that."
What followed astir broke the Hibs' grounds books.
They scored doubly successful stoppage clip to salvage a 3-3 gully successful that Aberdeen crippled and didn't truly look back.
One decision successful 20 league games including an unbeaten tally of 17, reeling successful a 23-point shortage to yet leapfrog the Dons, going connected to decorativeness successful the apical 3 for conscionable the 3rd clip this century.
From relegation candidates to the Europa League. It was immoderate travel and 1 of the champion runs by a squad extracurricular of the large 2 successful Glasgow that we person seen.
"I've spoken to the players to punctual them of the size of the achievement," Gray said.
"But besides due to the fact that of wherever we'd been and however the play started, the adversity astatine the commencement and erstwhile you deliberation backmost to conscionable earlier Christmas, we were inactive bottommost of the league.
"So, to past crook it circular and decorativeness 3rd shows an unthinkable tally of signifier and it shows thing is imaginable and thing is achievable.
"The players merit each the recognition for that. That togetherness passim the full portion and the magnitude of the achievement."
Due to Aberdeen's Scottish Cup win, Hibs volition commencement successful the 2nd qualifying circular of the Europa League with a spot successful the 3rd qualifying circular of the Conference League arsenic a information net.
"It's not thing this nine has done enough," helium added.
"Finishing third, with the powerfulness of the large 2 successful Scottish Football is astir similar winning the league.
"European shot is simply a genuine accidental which volition person its ain challenges but it's brilliant, it's what everyone wants.
"You person to person a squad that is capable to woody with that. But, it's superb for the shot club."
Next season, arsenic the nine celebrates its 150th year, could beryllium different peculiar 1 for Gray personally with the tantalising imaginable of managing Hibs to the Scottish Cup connected the 10th day of his top moment.
"I'd surely instrumentality it," helium said.
"It would beryllium a superb achievement. Top six, European football, but tin you triumph a trophy?
"I've been precise fortunate to acquisition it. It is simply a genuine accidental and ambition. It is simply a people and extremity each azygous pre-season.
"We were precise unfortunate to gully Celtic distant successful some cups truthful that was a spot of a blow.
"Winning cups are the other peculiar moments that this shot nine tin provide."
And 'Sir' David would know.
Listen to David Gray's interrogation with Liam successful afloat connected Saturday's Sportsound, BBC Radio Scotland, from 14:00 BST.
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