After being released six months early from his contract with Rangers, Andy Webster has controversially returned to Hearts for a second spell. Even though some in the Hearts support will stay stubborn in their vehement dislike for the Scotland international, this could be the perfect opportunity for him to re-establish himself.
Andy Webster engineered his move away from Tynecastle in 2006 by invoking what at the time was a little known clause that allowed him to buy out the remainder of his contract. The clause allows players to move …
Hearts came out winners in a pulsating ninety minutes, scoring the only goal of the game with their sole shot on target. Rangers dominated in the first half but failed to take one of their many chances with Marian Kello in the Hearts goal again showing that he is one of the top goalkeepers in the league.
Rangers switched from the 4-4-2 that brought about recent wins over Inverness, Hamilton and Kilmarnock, to a 4-1-4-1 formation with Kyle Lafferty leading the line. James Beattie was replaced by Steven Naismith and Andy …
The question of whether Hearts can push the Old Firm and challenge for a top two finish this season has been raised in post-match interviews with increasing regularity in recent weeks, with Jim Jefferies remaining vague in his answers. That was until last night. His side showed tremendous spirit to come from behind and snatch a victory away to Kilmarnock, keeping them within seven points of leaders Celtic with a game to spare. After the win, courtesy of two goals from substitute Stephen Elliott, Jefferies suggested that the next few …
Hearts went into the New Year derby employing the 4-2-3-1 that has brought about a tremendous nine game unbeaten run and Colin Calderwood set up his Hibs side in a 4-3-3 with Derek Riordan and Darryl Duffy hugging the touchline and playing high up the pitch, keeping Hearts full backs Eggert Jonsson and Ruben Palazuelos pinned back. Ian Murray was deployed as a deep defensive midfielder whose sole purpose was to stop Skacel from playing, which was effective for the most part. Hibs defended well for the majority of the …
As soon as I had the time I wanted to get on here and talk up my new main man Csaba Laszlo. I want to stress before I go on that I was not motivated by the recent PFA Scotland Manager of the Year nominations, I would have written most of what follows in any case.
Last week the nominations were released, with the Hearts manager a surprise omission. Instead, Gordon Strachan, the Celtic boss who already has this season’s League Cup under his belt, was nominated along with St. Johnstone …
Well I suppose it could have been worse. Club owner Vladimir Romanov made a rare appearance by jetting into town to sell off Christophe Berra to Wolves, and took in the defeat to Hamilton for his troubles. Unfortunately, though unsurprisingly, no replacement was brought in for Berra – unless you count 17-year-old Marius Zuvokas – and further to this, manager Csaba Laszlo will have to go the rest of the season with no obvious goalscorer amongst his ranks.
It could be argued that Gary Glen is the obvious candidate for an …
On Saturday the decisions definitely didn’t go our way. The most crucial of these was when referee Eddie Smith awarded a very soft penalty to Hamilton early in the second half, which allowed Simon Mensing to give Accies a 2-0 lead and effectively kill the game. Newly promoted captain Robbie Neilson was adjudged to have pulled James McCarthy in the box, although it didn’t take a replay to show that McCarthy had conned the referee by merely leaning back and falling over.
Neilson made minimal contact with McCarthy outside the box …
Hearts captain Christophe Berra has been given permission to talk to Wolves and will travel to Molineux this morning, which means the Scotland international may already have played his last game for the Jambos.
Berra challenged by Fletcher in the Edinburgh derby earlier this month
Berra, a product of the Hearts youth academy, made his debut as a substitute in a 2-1 defeat to Dundee United in 2003 and made his first start in a 1-1 draw away to Kilmarnock at Rugby Park in March 2004. It wasn’t until after the infamous …
Almost every side in the SPL has had an extended run of form at one point or another this season and currently it is the turn of Hamilton who have won five of their last six matches. Hearts travel to New Douglas Park tomorrow to take on a side who, since their 7-1 defeat at Ibrox, have reverted back to basics, conceding only once in their recent run.
Although possessing some of the league’s oldest campaigners the Accies squad has its fair share of exciting young talent, none more so than …
It has been a while since I last wrote and since then my beloved club have managed to consistently hang around in the top half of the table. We threatened to close in on the top two after taking four points from back-to-back matches against either half of the Old Firm towards the end of last year, but were brought back down to earth by failing to win in any of our next four. Even though the points were shared in two of those occasions, we failed to score once.
Aberdeen …
