What A Night For Hearts

18th Jan2011

What A Night For Hearts

by WeKnowSFA

Late Win and Cup Misery For City Rivals

We may as well cut to the chase for Hearts fans and let them gloat about Hibs being dumped out of the Scottish Cup by Ayr United. Most people would sit back and say to Hearts fans, “You guys went out of the Cup last week, what are you laughing at?” However, that’s not how football works!

We must now be at the stage where there is nearly no one left who was alive when Hibs last won the Scottish Cup and for that reason alone, Hearts fans will be chortling for weeks ahead. We are not quite at the stage where there is no one left but we are not too sure if Eunice Sanborn, born in Louisiana in 1896 has too many memories of that match, the ESPN coverage was quite patchy back in the day! Anyways, Hearts fans are happy and they will also be able to add another number onto their songs of joy.

There was also joy for Hearts fans when they grabbed a late winner against Kilmarnock, keeping the Gorgie side firmly ensconced as the third force in Scottish football. It didn’t look good for the Jambos when the home side took the lead before twenty minutes. Rui Miguel opened the scoring but the rest of the night was to be about Stephen Elliot.

The striker was a replacement for the ineffective Novikovas and he grabbed the equaliser on 72 minutes. More was to come from the striker when Killie keeper Cammy Bell blundered, allowing Elliot’s shot to squirm home and give the visitors the lead.

You get the impression some Hearts fans may be delaying their journey home from Rugby Park in order to let their Leith chums catch them up on the roads back to Edinburgh. After all, the Gorgie supporters at least have a tilt at the top to look forward to, all Hibs fans have left is a relegation dogfight.