Ewan Murray

Whereas I think supporters of the big two in Scotland are so ensconced in all this, they have to convince you and convince themselves, oh no, actually it was a penalty.

And Martin O'Neill was an extension of that, where he obviously just cannot say, yeah, we definitely get away with that.

And

and laugh about it.

It wouldn't make hearts feel any better, but I think it would undeniably be the truth.

yes so should I declare my interest in this for those who do not know please please of course I mean listen it would be it would be professionally exciting and intriguing for me if any team was challenging well it's been Celtic recently but Celtic and Rangers 40 year duopoly on the Scottish title that would be a great thing to be covering but hearts have meant more to me than they should have done for the vast majority of my life it's been it's been an obsession at times to the detriment of other things so listen I don't need to go into that but

The fact it's hearts, it keeps me awake at night, to be honest.

It's a major deal.

So, yes, the next week and a half is going to be exciting and thralling, very nervy.

And I wasn't nervy about it at all, actually, until that Rangers game on Monday and actually until the moment where the fourth official put up a board saying seven minutes of stoppage time and I thought I was going to throw up all over myself in the press box.

What has happened here is there's been a sudden realisation that Hearts actually could win the league and I'm now struggling a little bit to cope with that.

I bet.

Yeah, just that.

I mean, Rangers were considerably better than Hearts, but they were only one goal in front.

And having watched Hearts closely this season, they have turned around a lot of games and they have been in sticky patches in a lot of games.

They haven't blown teams away week on week.

They're not good enough to do that, candidly.

But they've been in that position before.

So I think it was wise for anyone to keep faith with them.

And they made changes to start the second half.