Hans Kristian Hognestad (1997). The Jambo Experience: An Anthropological Study of Hearts Fans. Berg. ISBN1-85973-193-7. Consultado el 17 de agosto de 2010. «Even though Hibs were founded by Irish–Catholic immigrants, this connection to their sectarian origins has faded significantly in the Protestant dominated Edinburgh of the twentieth century.»
Donald Campbell (2003). Edinburgh: a Cultural and Literary History. Signal Books. ISBN1-902669-73-8. Consultado el 16 de agosto de 2010. «Sectarian bigotry may not be completely absent from this relationship, but it has always been less important than identification with territory. Hibs supporters tend to belong to the north and east of Edinburgh, while Hearts supporters (who outnumber their city rivals by a ratio of approximately two to one) are more usually found in the south and west.»
Scott Murray and Rowan Walker (2008). Day of the Match: A History of Football in 365 Days. Boxtree. ISBN978-0-7522-2678-1. Consultado el 17 de agosto de 2010. «In August 1887, Scottish Cup holders Hibernian took on FA Cup winners Preston North End in a friendly at Hibs' Easter Road ground. Posters appeared all over Edinburgh billing the encounter as 'The Association Football Championship of the World'. Hibernian won the match 2–1 and therefore had the right (whichever way you look at it, as nobody else had bothered to stage such an event) to call themselves the first world champions, beating Uruguay to it by 43 years.»
Stephen Dobson and John A. Goddard (2001). The Economics of Football. Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-66158-7. Consultado el 16 de agosto de 2010. «Edinburgh Hibernians were founded as the first catholic club in 1875. In its first incarnation, only catholics were permitted to play for Hibernian, but when the club was reconstituted in 1893 the ban on protestants was lifted.»
Donald Campbell (2003). Edinburgh: a Cultural and Literary History. Signal Books. ISBN1-902669-73-8. Consultado el 16 de agosto de 2010. «Since both Hearts and Hibs originated in the Old Town, rivalry between the clubs was always inescapable. But in the main it is a fairly good-natured rivalry and, in fact, has not been without its productive aspects.»
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