Complex sentence: It wasn't to be with his boyhood favourites Heart of Midlothian however, but their cross-town rivals Hibernian, where the "Gay Gordon" soon established himself as an idol for a whole generation of post-war football fans.
Split into simpler sentences: It wasn't to be with his boyhood favourites Heart of Midlothian however, but their cross-town rivals Hibernian. The "Gay Gordon" soon established himself as an idol for a whole generation of post-war football fans.