by Martin Taylor | Apr 16, 2021 | 2020-21, Opinion, Writing
It’s a somewhat embarrassing reality that season 2020/21 was the second season HMFC have spent in the second tier in the past six years. The outcome is ultimately the same – league champions with games to spare – but this season could not feel any...
by Martin Taylor | Feb 20, 2021 | 2020-21, Opinion, Writing
One topic that has been particularly contentious amongst Hearts fans in recent years has been that of recruitment. The under-performance of the first team, culminating in being bottom of the league in the 2019/20 season and, therefore, in scope for demotion when the...
by Iain Lobban | Aug 10, 2019 | 2019-20, Opinion, Writing
“If you don’t go to sleep, he won’t come.” Words used by my parents to ensure I went to bed on Christmas Eve without fuss when I was younger, slightly more impressionable than I am today and fully of the belief that Santa was real – the same words used by my wife a...
by Iain Lobban | Jun 1, 2019 | 2018-19, Opinion, Writing
Hangover fully subsided, sleep caught up on, body detoxed and clarity of thought restored. Having spent most of the week as an empty vessel of a man, I now feel more capable of reflecting on last weekend’s Scottish Cup Final: I only dread to think how long it would...