You certainly couldnt IJ. As a lifelong Jambo, I have to admit this must look pretty funny to outsiders. The irony is that, despite the horrendous mismanagement and ourageous behavior by Mad Vlad including PICKING THE FUCKING TEAM!!!!, we are still 2nd in the SPL, Scottish Cup holders and just missed out on playing in the CL by one game!
Anyway, what can we do. We do not have a Barca style democracy, nor do we have 50000 season ticket holders like the OF. We are bound to this magalomaniac Lithuathian.
We have some of the best players in Scotland and the 2nd best goalie playing in Britain but week in , week out we have second rate Lithuanians foisted on us by an owner who cares more about television rights in Villnius than playing good football in Edinburgh. The last derby was proof of that. Some of our best players have fallen out of favour (Brellier, Webster) and shit players like Mikolaunaus and Jankauskas get picked over top players like Pinilla and Brellier. We have one of the most promising 18 year old in Britain, Calum Elliot and what do we do? Loan him to Motherwell and import more 2nd rate Lithuaniand from FC Kaunas (yes, who you may ask...not exactly Inter or Real eh?)
Yes, it's a fucking farce but tbh, you guys, if you are true football fans should not be laughing. Scotland needs as many decent clubs as possible. Is it cooincidence that as soon as a real 3rd force appears in Scottish football our national team starts regaining a bit of dignity and Setanta sign an enhanced deal injecting cash where it is needed. As someone who spent most of the 90's in Brighton and watched the once proud Albion nearly destroyed by one man (Archer), it could happen to (almost) any club. I'm sickened by the purile comments of Hibees and others who would like to see a Tesco where Tynecastle is and see the SPL return to the duopoly (well, monopoly at the moment). For 10 weeks last year, before Burley was sacked, the SPL briefly ceased to be a joke to the rest of the country and we even had a lead Hearts story on FF!!
BEWARE, this could happen to almost every club in the land. Vlad is a bullshitter who hasnt cleared our debt (only shuffled it around) hasnt signed any players apart from Beslija and apparently we havent paid for him yet - all the others are on loan from Kaunas.
But I'm equally sickened by the spineless reaction of the majority of Hearts fans and the 'Believe' mentality. We believed. We WERE on course to our first SPL title for 50 years (and the first non OF title for 20 years since we were lost the title in the last 10 minutes of the season but Mad Vlad pressed the self destruct button, Burley left and the rest is history. (Can you believe Robson and Ranieri were interviewed for the job and Vlad chose RIX!!) I can't imagine Celtic or Rangers fans putting up with such shit. What we need is a fans movement like Fans Utd or the Man U lot who stood up against Glazer.
I think the season is already Celtics which is sad because I don't think the Celtic team (Nakamura and McManus excepted) are any better than the Hearts team, they just have a great manager, a decent board who are not all related to each other and hard core fans who won't take any shit.
That's my 2p worth anyway.
