Toby Sibbick insists a third place Premiership finish isn’t the height of ambition at Hearts as they aim to hunt down Rangers and second spot.
18.12.2022 - 12:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A hung jury and hostile witnesses. That’s what it looked – and sounded – like inside the court of public opinion at Ibrox on Thursday night.
There was one moment of levity that cut across the palpable tension of the occasion. Funny if you were a neutral observer, that is. I predicted here last week that the very sight of Hibs’ Aiden McGeady would mean he would get it “tight” from the home crowd for his past history, which included a time with the team across the road on the other side of the city. But I wasn’t prepared for a couple of things.
First of all, the crescendo of booing that accompanied Aiden’s arrival off the subs’ bench in the second half was pantomime comical. McGeady left the team across the road on the other side of the city 12 years ago and has since played for Spartak Moscow, Everton, Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland, Charlton Athletic and now he’s at Hibs.
There would have been teenagers at the game who would therefore have needed a diagram drawn for them to explain who Aiden was and why the sight of the Republic of Ireland international was so provocative for their elders. But it all vouched for a crowd working off a short fuse.
Secondly, I invented the phrase about the team across the road from the other side of the city as a lighthearted comment on how some people can get so intense about the rivalry between Celtic and Rangers that they can’t bring themselves to mention the name of the team they don’t support.
But I didn’t think for one moment Rangers’ manager Michael Beale would come up with a suggestion of his own and refer to the club he’s going after for the league title as the “other team.” It’s not very respectful to a fellow member of the manager’s union, Ange Postecoglou, is it?
Beale has no need to
Toby Sibbick insists a third place Premiership finish isn’t the height of ambition at Hearts as they aim to hunt down Rangers and second spot.
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