Cabbage bashing

Originally sent on Aug 8th after Hearts beat Hibs 4 - 0 at Tynecastle. The game that started all this excitement.


Hi guys,

How are you all?
Have you been camping again yet? We are off to GlenNevis on Friday for the weekend, the big campsite at the foot of the ben.
I pitched the tent in the garden yesterday, the first time it had come out of it's bag since we left for Montreal - get this! there were hundreds beasties ALIVE!! LIVING!!! it tell you. And very obviously Canadian beasties at that, i was half expecting a racoon stowed away to creep out of the back end of the tent.

So it has been hard coming down from the Canadian adventure, i think we are just about back to usual. I am very guilty of getting well ahead of myself, a bit over excited even but the talk has been very exciting and i just couldn't help myself. I think it was therapy for being back over here with no hols to look forward to. Now you might say - how the hell can a season ticket for Tynecastle be therapy surely it shows masochism coupled with complete memory loss.
Like i say tho the talk has been all good whilst we were in Canada and things were looking even better when we came back, a number of signings in the bag and more to come - all continentals mind you but all seemed to be internationals of one flavour or another - christ we even bought a striker who won a champions league medal with Porto last year. So i got two seats right behind the goals at the Gorgie stand and 3/4 of the way up, a really good view in anybodies book.
Things are so excitable down Tyney way that they even failed to post half the season tickets out on time and i had to go down to the ticket office myself on Friday to pick up the books.
Which brings me to the first game at Tynecastle of the new season,
Previously we had merited a creditable 4 - 2 victory away to Kilmarnock to kick the season off. So came the game at Tynecastle against the auld foe, the losers fay leith the portobelly pish and on and on and on.
Hibs had been well worth their third place last season easily out playing just about everyone and had managed to hold onto the cream of their rich crop of young Scottish talent O'Connor and Riordan et al. Riordan had not endeared himself any further to the Hearts faithful with some scathing close season comments to the effect that Hearts were crap last season and would be worse this season - he is a scummy wee Hibs ned fanny after all.
So the scene was set, these guys who we hate anyway have usurped our 'best of the rest' tag and stolen our annual euro adventure toboot and to top it all they still think they are better than us. Meanwhile close season the Jambo's have been amassing an outfit which is generating huge excitement throughout the whole of Scottish football.
It has been many a game i have taken Jason to since some ropey 2 - 1 victory against StJohnstone about a hundred years ago. Each of those games has been it's own crushing heartache, mostly European and always painful, it has been at least 4 years since the poor lad has witnessed a goal from the maroon mediocrity. This could be the final straw that sends him away from Hearts and football forever.

four nil we only won four nil, we only won four nil, we only won four nil.

Can't remember such a satisfyingly hilarious scalping of the muppets, and Jason loved it. It must be some right of passage i think - father and son shouting together - cheerio cheerio cheerio to the desperate Hibees as they trundle out the stadium 3 - 0 down and a full 15 minutes to go.
Ever read Fever Pitch? Jason is doubtless now (not that there was ever any doubt really) a nailed to the mast Jambo till he dies! and will spend the rest of his football life, mostly in vain, in search of such heady magic. Oh god what have i done!
Not even going to go into the game too much just - they are crap and we scored four goals and if we had really wanted to we could have scored another four goals.
fantastic

Jason wants to know how the Jays are doing? and Claire says hello gunc.

Look after yourselves folks
D :-))))