The traditional New Year's encounter between Hearts and Hibs has thrown up plenty of drama down the decades, with the 0-7 game at Tynecastle on Jan 1st 1973 being top of the tree for those of a Leith persuasion - but Hearts have had lots to gloat about too.
At 4.50pm on January 2, 2003, arguably the most extraordinary Edinburgh New Year's derby in recent memory came to a conclusion as Hearts lapped up what had looked like being an extremely unlikely point against their greatest rivals at Tynecastle Stadium.
With Hibs netting two late goals in the 89th and 91st minutes to make the score 4-2, only the most optimistic of maroon-tinted spectacle wearing Hearts supporters would have expected to be leaving the ground with anything but the bitter of taste of defeat in their mouths.
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And yet the Gorgie side, who had previously enjoyed a resounding 5-1 home victory and a dramatic 2-1 away win against Hibs that season, managed to spoil green and white grins once more thanks to a brace of very, very late goals from a teenage striker that few of the 17,332 inside Tynecastle that day were familiar with: 18-year-old Graham Weir.
Coming in the 94th and 96th minutes of stoppage time, the teen sensation's double sent the home fans into delirium as their side shared the spoils in what was instantly recognised as a classic fixture in the Edinburgh derby and destined for a DVD release.
While the actual temperature reading in the stadium was positively baltic, the heat was turned up to full on this fiery encounter after just 11 minutes when the visitors took the lead.
Following a decent early effort on goal by Jambos striker Andy Kirk, Derek Townsley took advantage of a spot of poor defending between Hearts' Alan Maybury and Roddy McKenzie to put Hibs one-nil up.
Minutes later, the Easter Road side, who were chasing their first derby victory in five, had doubled their lead as Tam McManus rose to head the ball in off the upright.
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Hibs looked to be cruising until the half-hour mark, when Andy Kirk was sent tumbling by goalkeeper Nick Colgan and Steven Pressley calmly slotting away the resulting penalty kick to bring Hearts back into the match.
A pulsating game thus far and yet the glut of goals was nowhere near over.
A period of pressure from Hearts early on in the second half resulted in a Mark de Vries goal on 62 minutes to make it 2-2.
And so the score remained until the final minute of ordinary time when Hibs defender Craig James, on loan from Sunderland, restored the away side's lead when he fired into the net from a Jarkko Wiss corner kick. Then, just two minutes later, Hibs were in heaven as super sub Grant Brebner made it 4-2 and with the full-time whistle looming.
Hibs now looked odds on for victory and yet somehow and from somewhere, Hearts managed to conjure up a derby day magic trick for the ages, with the sorcerer on this occasion being a young hopeful from Whitburn who had only recently graduated from Hearts' youth set up.
With just seconds of the match remaining, Hearts drove forward and teenager Graham Weir capitalised to guide in what boss Craig Levein and everyone else in attendance for that matter thought was a consolation goal - but the lad wasn't done.
Deep into the 95th minute of stoppage time. and with referee Stuart Dougal poised to put a close on proceedings, Weir pounced again to claw a point back for Hearts, earning himself hero status down Gorgie way forevermore. Full time: Heart of Midlothian 4-4 Hibernian.
Weir would ultimately only score a total of six goals for Hearts in 68 appearances, but his New Year's derby brace will surely be remembered for as long as the game of football is played in Scotland's capital city.
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