Clydesdale Bank SPL - Saturday 10 April 2010 - Tynecastle
Edinburgh was bathed in sunshine today as spring finally appeared to have sprung. This encouraged 14,000 fans to head to Tynecastle to see if Hearts could secure the single point required to take their place at the SPL End of Season Top Six Banquet. In the end Hearts got all three points and so will face the Old Firm and Edinburgh's lesser team - presently in self-destruct mode - one more time before the season finally comes to an end.
Hearts injury list is such that they were again missing several players for today's game against Jim Jefferies former side. In fact one wondered if the watching Vladimir Romanov may have fancied putting on a pair of boots - he would probably have done more than the bungling Christian Nade who made a rare appearance in Jefferies team today. It's fair to say most of the frustrated home support wished he hadn't...
The only goal of a quite awful game came after half an hour when Suso Santana drove the ball home from an angle just inside the penalty box. Ironically the goal came at a time when Hearts were down to ten men, Andrew Driver sucummbing to what appeared to be a hamstring injury.
Jimmy Calderwood's Kilmarnock offered little threat other than the aptly named James Fowler who appeared to kick everything in sight - and get away with it. The referee wasn't helped by the assistant who ran the line in front of the Wheatfield Stand and gave the impression he was watching a different game entirely, much to the disgust of the home fans...
Top six it is then for Hearts who are now just six points off free-falling Hibernian in fourth place. And there is still one more Edinburgh derby to come...
Top six, that's what mattered yesterday, not the quality.
ReplyDeleteTop Six - pah!
ReplyDeleteThe race for the 'Bottom One' is where it's at - and there's a certain northern side giving it a helluva shot at the moment.
from a Dons fan dreaming of those golden days when we were mediocre....