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Friday April 27 2007
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party on
ice again
Thanks for
STEVIE Frail insists Hearts will be
going all out to be killjoys again
by turning Celtic’s championship
celebrations into a damp squib.
The Jambos were party poopers
at Easter Road when they beat
Hibs 1-0 on the day that the Leith
side paraded the CIS Cup.
And Tynecastle assistant boss
Frail says that the Gorgie men
will be striving to repeat that at
night
a terrific
, lads
Celtic Park on Sunday as they
go in search of the three points
which will boost their hopes of Champers was out for dismal display
clinching a UEFA Cup spot.
Frail said: “It worked against WOOO-HOOOO! I must admit,
Hibs to a degree because their champagne corks flew in the
He’s barr
eye might have been taken off
Corrie Inn on T Barry
y, he’s a radge
Radge
, it’s..
the ball by all the talk about
the Pars dumped Hibs out of the
uesday night when
parading the CIS Cup. And Celtic
Scottish Cup.
But if I couldn’t be arsed going 45 miles
might be the same after
to a massive Hearts match, I certainly
clinching the title. It might take
for Jambos, seeing John Collins flat out
In what’s been a pretty crap season
wouldn’t advertise my lack of loyalty
their mind off the game. Then
on the Hampden steps almost greetin’
was surely the highlight of the year
by decking myself out in Hearts
Ever seen a man so dejected?
.
colours to watch the game in the pub.
Collins has been branded arrogant,
cocky and too full of himself – by his
turn out looking like the Irish pimpernel
But these Hibees had the cheek to
own players.
simply to go down the boozer
And then had the cheek to look all
.
such a chap forced to face up to the
So there’s nothing nicer than seeing
grumpy when their team got humped.
fact that he is, after all, the boss of a
pretty mediocre side in a crap league.
bothered to ditch the pub for a night
I’m sorry lads, but maybe if you’d
and actually support your side at the
pub on
But what was even stranger in the
match, they might have put in a bit
more ef
But Hibs looked like a team who just
fort.
HARTLEY: It will be tough
Hibees who managed to get out and
Tuesday was the number of
see the game on telly
I’m no marriage guidance counsellor
.
,
couldn’t be arsed. Couldn’t be
again, they might come out
but if a bloke can get a night of
bothered playing for their manager
totally relaxed and just get the
the marital home to go to the pub,
f from
whom they obviously despise.
,
ball down and play.”
surely he could manage to travel the
Couldn’t be bothered playing for the
Meanwhile, ex-Jambo Paul
45 miles to Hampden to actually see
fans, who clearly didn’t fancy their
Hartley says he will encounter
the game?
chances by staying away in droves.
a lot of unfamiliar faces when
he lines up against his old team
they were nipping down the shop for
Couldn’t they just have told the wife
champagne was ordered and there
So come the end of the match, the
for the first time in four months.
fags or something?
was much rejoicing.
Hartley believes the team he
left behind has changed beyond
truth and said their team was playing
Or maybe they could have told the
big or clever to take pleasure in other
Which got me thinking. It really isn’t
all recognition. And, having seen
one of their biggest games of the
teams’ misfortunes.
the mixed reception that Steven
season, so they simply had to go.
champagne and dancing around the
There we were, grown men, quaffing
Pressley got in his first game
against Hearts, Hartley admits he
Hampden did another great impression
But instead, the Hibs support at
pub – just because our city rivals got
is unsure of how the travelling
of the invisible men.
humped out of the cup.
support will greet him.
He said: “I don’t know how
Glasgow in the end?
How many Hibees actually made it to
looking like we’d just opened our
Big cheesy grins on our faces,
the Hearts fans will be. They
maybe five or six? I don’t know
Around 4000,
Christmas presents to find
gave Steven Pressley a bit of
so few? They never tire of telling us
. Why
Jolie and Kate Winslett ready for us.
Angelina
a rough time, but it’s part and
that Hibs are the most attractive team
parcel of football, you have to
to watch in Scotland.
fact, it’
It’s not big and it’
plain nasty
s immature, juvenile and just
s not clever. In
expect things like that.
“It will be a tough game. There
loyal fans could manage to short trip
If that was the case, you’d think their
are a lot of Lithuanians and only
to Hampden to see their team in
a better feeling in the world than
But, by God, I don’t think there’
.
s
one or two Scots in the first team.
a Scottish Cup semi-final.
watching Hibs get a tanking in the Cup.
“They are still fighting for
a UEFA Cup place so it will be
it in the pub – and some of them even
Instead, thousands decided to watch Cup.
That’s 106 years now without the
a really tough game for us.
had the cheek to get dressed up in
“I don’t have a point to prove.
their best Hibs finery to do so.
next year – as Queen V
But don’t worry lads, there’s always
I’m looking forward to the game
Maybe I’m missing something here.
used to say the last time Hibs
ictoria always
won it.
and hopefully we can win it.”
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