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hearts v's airdrie - wrong scoreline

Hibs were beaten this week by Morton in the CIS cup which wasn’t great.  Despite some poor refereeing decisions, Hibs were beaten by a team that tried it’s ass off and everyone accepts that Morton won.

But that’s not the case at Tynecastle where the mini-Huns, Hearts, were beaten by the mini-mini-Huns, Airdrie on penalties.  Hearts have been unable to accept this scoreline and the Hearts official website is reporting the game as a victory - 4-0 on penalties.

There are three possibilities here - they are deluded, they are incompetent or they are both.

Notice also the attendance for the “big team” - 6844

In an interview to the Mail Online, Sir Alex Ferguson came out with the following:

DO you think that as more and more clubs are bought by foreign billionaires, you are going to see more interference by them?

Aye, you are going to get interference more and more from a manager’s point of view. I think there are signs of that. I mean the guy who owns Hearts takes the team out to the manager.

There are murmurs among the discontented but apathetic Hearts support that there might be a return of the Save Our Hearts campaign which was in full swing when Chris Robinson planned to sell Tynecastle to Cala Homes and move the club to Murrayfield.  It’s been discussed in private on Kickback and they have now made the discussion public.

Here’s my suggestion:  Get a time machine and continue the campaign from when The Pieman left the club.

I think it’s difficult for fans of any most clubs to believe that Hearts fans have done the square root of bugger all since Vladimir Romanov ripped the soul from their club and made them the laughing stock they are.  Some of them still think he’s going to pull through and build a stadium, wipe the debt and win them the Champions League.

Anyway, I support the efforts of the few Hearts fans who are actually attempting to do something, they should be applauded for attempting to save the club they (misguidedly IMO) follow.  It’s easy to sit and mock from afar when your own club is in secure financial shape with a benevolent if not exactly inspiring owner (and I should know) but remember 18 years ago, Hibs went down a similar road that Hearts are on now.  It took the efforts of the Hands Off Hibs campaign to avoid being taken over by someone who was happy to wipe the club out.  The point is that the fans have to make that effort.  Who knows, it might not be too late for the Jambos to save what’s left of their club.  Time marches on though…..

In other news, Romanov’s chief attack dog Charlie Mann is to part company with Mad Vlad.  His employer, Weber Shandwick “are to cease any involvement with Hearts’ majority shareholder from the end of this month.”  Public Relations will now be dealt with in-house.  No reason given, make up your own but first here’s a quote from Mr Mann in 2007, “Don’t worry, things aren’t as bad as you fear…. When you see people like me walking away, that’s when to worry!”

Strangely, Charlie will be part of the panel, along with Hibs Blog favorite George Foulkes for a Talk 107 debate/discussion/pagger about Hearts on Friday 11 July from 6.30pm.  It’s going to be live so let’s hope George Foulkes is in his usual state.

Finally, I’d like to report on the imminent departure of Shaggy Fail but Hearts managers getting the heave-ho is hardly news is it?

William Hills have given odds on the first SPL manager to be sacked next season and guess what?  The favourite hasn’t yet been appointed.  But yes, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that the new Hearts manager is the least likely to see the season out.

Personally, I think it might be worth against it because at this rate it doesn’t look like they’ll even have a manager for next season.

The odds are as follows:

FIRST SPL BOSS TO GO
9/4 Next Permanent Hearts Boss , 7/2 Jimmy Calderwood, 9/2 Jim Jeffries, 9 Mixu Paatelainen, 10 Mark McGhee, 12 Craig Brewster, 12 Gus McPherson, 16 Gordon Strachan, 20 Walter Smith, 25 Craig Levein, 25 John Hughes, 25 Billy Reid

A pound each on a few outsiders mightn’t be a bad bet, or it would be if it weren’t for Vladamir Romanov.

In a great wee story carried by todays The Scottish Sun, some sad Jambos are moaning that the designers of Grand Theft Auto IV have used the game to have a dig at Heart of Midlothian Football Club.  They claim there are characters based on Hearts players as well as Jambo overlord Vladamir Romanov.

The game features a Russian money lender named Vlad (sound familiar?) who falls out with Roman - an Eastern European, suspected to be based on Roman Bednar the ex-Hearts striker.  Rumours of a bloated, bitter, alcoholic politician named George appearing may be only rumours.

Hearts fans also claim the baddies wear maroon in the game.  Don’t all baddies wear the combination of blood and faeces that makes maroon?  It seems to me the game would be unrealistic if the bad guys were to wear anything else.

The person quoted in the Sun said “The references are really subtle but they are everywhere.  There are too many, it can’t just be a coincidence.”

It’s quite possible too. A good few Hibbies worked on the game for Rockstar North, more than likely loads more than the number of Jambos.  As we know, Hibs fans are more likely to work in cool industries like music, art, game design etc. whereas Jambos have a propensity towards working for the Cooncil or Scottish Widows.

True or not, it’s another great wind up for our paranoid friends from Gorgie.

These are obviously good guys, the one on the left even has a new away top.