Episode 21: Paris is Burning

By Ian Rose | April 29th, 2008

No, film buffs ... we will not be talking about the drag documentary, but Paris St. Germain is a main topic of discussion this week, as Ligue 1 faces the very real possibility of losing its only Parisian club, and its fans go a little insane. Inara ...

Barr wins Player of the Month

By Ian Rose | April 4th, 2008

Congratulations to Falkirk central defender Darren Barr on winning the Player of the Month award in the SPL for March. Much has been made this season of young Hearts captain Christophe Berra, but Barr is just as young and also captains an SPL side, ...

SPL Month in Review: March 2008

By Ian Rose | April 1st, 2008

Well, another month is in the books for the Scottish Premier League, and it might well have been the decisive one in both the race for the SPL title and the race for UEFA Cup qualification. Here's a look at the overall standings, and the league tabl ...

Vennegor and Niculae represent SPL with goals

By Ian Rose | March 26th, 2008

In today's crazy international action, most Scottish eyes were on the 1-1 draw with Croatia. But SPL club fans could look to a few other matches to see their favorite players as well. Ghana once again capped Hearts midfielder Laryea Kingston, despi ...

Something for the Romanovs to consider

By Graham | March 26th, 2008

It was a full Tynecastle that watched Hearts fail once again to rise to the occasion on Saturday. Falkirk were worth their point in a grim nil-nil but, as so often this season, the home side did little more than turn up. In a week when it has become ...

St. Mirren 1, Berra in line for first Scotland Cap

By Graham | March 18th, 2008

Christophe Berra's inclusion in George Burley's first Scotland squad is a rare positive note in what has been a pretty dismal season. Saturday's 1-1 draw away to St Mirren, coupled with Falkirk's victory in Inverness, has made a top six place once more no

Bendnar's sale will cover furniture costs

By Graham | March 8th, 2008

It now appears that the driving force behind the likely sale of Roman Bednar this summer to West Brom is a furniture bill that lay unpaid for some time. Long enough, in fact, for the courts to become involved. Who knew cash was so tight at Tynecastle?

Roman in the Midlands

By Graham | March 6th, 2008

Apparently - according to the BBC's round-up of sports gossip - West Brom are hoping to make Roman Bednar's loan permanent and are willing to pay £2m for him. That makes sense, of course. Bednar has been banging them in and has helped West Brom to a like

Hearts destroy Inverness jinx

By Graham | March 4th, 2008

On the back of the drubbing by Rangers at Tynecastle, a trip to Inverness would not have been the choice of many at Hearts for the game in which the team had to make some sort of redeeming statement. CT have already beaten us twice this season and under C

Hearts 0, Rangers 4

By Graham | February 28th, 2008

This was a performance as poor as Tynecastle has seen from a Hearts team. Ever. Rangers played well enough to win but, in truth, they could have put their under 19s on and probably have still beaten this Hearts side. The only explanation for the whole

SPL Wednesday Wrapup

By Ian Rose | February 27th, 2008

A full schedule of midweek matches today, so here goes. Aberdeen 1-1 Motherwell Zander Diamond headed the ball in from the edge of the Motherwell penalty box to put the Dons up 1-0 early. Since the wonderful performance at Pittodrie against Bayern Mu

Hearts now relying on wind power

By Graham | February 25th, 2008

Stephen Frail is reported today suggesting that games should be called off when it's too windy. The temptation to link such a remark to the normal status of commentary emanating from Tynecastle is severe but I shall pass. And it was passing that gave H

Velicka to fulfil ambition to play for major European team

By Graham | February 23rd, 2008

The BBC is reporting that Hearts have accepted £1m for Velicka from Norway's Viking Stavanger. Oh, well. It makes sense, of course. Hearts have no trouble scoring goals at the moment, they have a glut of top quality strikers (so many, in fact, that th

Hearts are virtually there

By Graham | February 20th, 2008

We've had plans to redevelop the stadium. Indeed, the model presented to the City Council as part of the planning submission is now on view at the ticket office. Whoopee. And there's more exciting news. Big name manager? No. Big name signings laid on f

Celtic 3-0 Hearts: Who's Next?

By JT | February 18th, 2008

Celtic handled a game Hearts squad 3-0 on Saturday, building on their confident form of late, and getting the Bhoys prepared for the Champions League showdown with Barcelona on Wednesday evening. After the way Paul Hartley and Scott Brown ruled the mid

Celtic 3, Hearts positively 0

By Graham | February 18th, 2008

Strange as it may seem, this 3-0 loss to Celtic was further evidence that some sort of corner has been turned. No clean sheet, and no goals scored, but the performance was certainly better than the scoreline suggests and this was no abject Celtic Park cap

Celtic-Hearts Preview: Warmup for Midweek

By JT | February 15th, 2008

Celtic take on Hearts tomorrow at Celtic Park in their first home match since mid-January. After thrashing both Kilmarnock and Aberdeen on the road the last two weeks by identical 5-1 scores, the Bhoys are looking for another similar performance heading

Celtic Green, Barca News & Fat Spurs

By JT | February 14th, 2008

Not that we didn't already know that Celtic are one of the top twenty clubs in the world (actually top 1), Deloitte's Football Money League for 2006/7 now confirms it. The Bhoys are 17th in the table, behind the usual suspects, Real Madrid, Man U, et al.

Hearts 2, Gretna under-21s 0

By Graham | February 11th, 2008

A third victory in a row for Hearts came at the end of a week of rumours about the team being up for sale and, believe it or not, suggestions that Vladimir Romanov interfered in team selection. Beating Gretna at all is a rarity for Hearts and scoring two

SPL Weekend Preview

By Ian Rose | February 9th, 2008

A quick look at this weekend's SPL action: Dundee United v. Hibernian, Saturday 12:30 After the greatest of starts this season, the Hibees have had a long rough patch, losing four straight in the league and needing to look all the way back to November

No new players; no new manager; no game today for Hearts

By Graham | February 2nd, 2008

By doing little more than turning up at Fir Park for the Cup replay with Motherwell, Hearts have cunningly ensured themselves a rest during a period of awful weather. You've got to hand it to Stevie Frail for thinking outside the box. It also gives Fra

Hearts hand it to Rangers at muddy Hampden

By Graham | January 31st, 2008

I'm off to Murrayfield on Sunday to see Scotland play France in this season's Six Nation campaign opener. It may be rugby but it's unlikely that I'll see any more blatant use of the hands than last night's 'catch' by Barry Ferguson. He finished it well -

Aberdeen 0 - 1 Hearts

By Graham | January 27th, 2008

It's starting to look like Hearts are becoming a bogey team for the men from Pittodrie. After trouncing them 4-1 at Tynecastle in November, we took another three points off them yesterday. The last team to mug them on their home patch in the league was Ce

SPL Preview: Burns Day Special

By Ian Rose | January 25th, 2008

Happy Robbie Burns Day, everyone. Today, 249 years ago, legendary Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns was born. As is the tradition of my forefathers, I plan on celebrating his birth with a bit of haggis and a much larger bit of whisky. But first,

Another step backwards for Hearts in defeat to Motherwell

By Graham | January 23rd, 2008

It turned out as expected. The passion from the first encounter at Tynecastle was missing and it was hard to believe that a home tie against Dundee was the reward for a victory here. Although a glaring miss by Andrius Velicka and a soft penalty award for

Are Hearts really favourites to win at 'Well?

By Graham | January 22nd, 2008

One win in their last five against unbeaten in three games. Those are the sort of numbers that would make the latter team appear to be favourites for tonight's Cup replay at Fir Park between Motherwell and Hearts. But that would make Hearts favourites and

Hearts finally in transfer market action

By Graham | January 21st, 2008

The bad news, however, is that we're selling, not buying. Michal Pospisil - seen here exaggerating the length of his contract - has left Hearts and joined big name Belgian side Sint-Truidense. I get the sense that Michal, after joining from Slovan Liberec

Hearts triumph in passionless derby

By Graham | January 20th, 2008

The manner of Andrius Velicka's solitary but winning goal for Hearts in yesterday's derby victory over Hibs was indicative of the game as a whole. This was not a classic. More than that, it was a derby match curiously lacking in passion, fire, agression,

Tynecastle set for new name

By Graham | January 17th, 2008

Hearts yesterday delivered the planning permission application for the new 10,000 seater stand needed to hold visiting Rangers and Celtic fans increasing numbers of season ticket holders. So Hearts fans can now look forward to: a big name manager big

Bednar scores again - but not for Hearts

By Graham | January 16th, 2008

I remember a neighbour of mine - a Celtic fan, no less - expressing admiration for the skills of Roman Bednar. This was shortly before Bednar slotted home a winner in a victory over Celtic at Tynecastle. There is no doubt that Bednar is a cultured striker

Articles tagged with "hearts"