Tag: SPFL Championship
Heart of Midlothian 2 Rangers 2 – Hearts Lift the Championship Trophy
SPFL Championship, Saturday 2 May 2015 – Tynecastle Stadium
And so they faced the final curtain….Hearts momentous SPFL Championship winning season drew to a close at a packed Tynecastle Stadium on Saturday as the champions...
Neilson Nominated for Manager of the Year
Scottish football is, to use a well-worn cliché, ‘at the business end of the season’ where awards, accolades and admiration are handed out.
PFA Scotland today announced its short-list for Scotland’s Manager of the Year....
Cowdenbeath 1 Heart of Midlothian 2
SPFL Championship, Saturday 25 April 2015 – Central Park
Hearts travelled to Fife on Saturday afternoon for their final away trip of a momentous season. With the SPFL Championship title clinched some time ago and...
Heart of Midlothian 2 Raith Rovers 1
SPFL Championship, Saturday 18 April 2015 – Tynecastle
Hearts returned to winning ways on Saturday afternoon with a workmanlike victory over Raith Rovers in the SPFL Championship at Tynecastle.
After last Sunday’s meek display in the...
Hearts Must Become Hungry Again
While the billions of pounds from the Sky and BT television deals have arguably taken football away from its working class roots in England, it’s reasonable to suggest that, in Scotland, the game is...
Heart of Midlothian 3 Alloa Athletic 0
The cliché used by too many journalists last weekend following Hearts 2-1 defeat at Ibrox was that Robbie Neilson’s men had ‘packed away the tools’. This was a reference to the fact they had...
Rangers 2 Heart of Midlothian 1
SPFL Championship, Sunday 5 April 2015 – Ibrox Stadium
It’s not often this season the Edinburgh Reporter has had to report on a defeat for Heart of Midlothian FC. However, for only the second time...
Heart of Midlothian 2 Queen of the South 0
SPFL Championship, Saturday 28 March 2015 – Tynecastle
After celebrating clinching the SPFL Championship title - and promotion back to the Premiership - last weekend, Hearts held a title winning party at a packed Tynecastle...
Stylish Hearts Are Back From The Brink
It’s been on the cards for some time now and on Sunday it was finally confirmed – Heart of Midlothian are the SPFL Championship winners for season 2014/15 and will take their place one...
Falkirk 0 Heart of Midlothian 3
SPFL Championship, Saturday 21 March 2015 – The Falkirk Stadium
Hearts march towards the SPFL Championship title continued when Robbie Neilson’s side visited what has become their bogey team in recent years – Falkirk. The...
Raith Rovers 1 Heart of Midlothian 3
SPFL Championship, Tuesday 17 March 2015 – Starks Park
Relentless is a word that seems to have attached itself to the good ship Heart of Midlothian as it sails inexorably towards the top flight of...
Heart of Midlothian 4 Dumbarton 0
SPFL Championship, Saturday 14 March 2015 – Tynecastle
An emotional day at Tynecastle where Hearts paid tribute to their greatest ever player - and one of Scotland’s finest - Dave Mackay ended with the home...
Hearts 12 Points Away From the Title
Hearts are just 12 points away from clinching the SPFL Championship title - and promotion back to the SPFL Premiership. Rangers 1-1 draw at home to Queen of the South on Tuesday evening -...
Heart of Midlothian 10 (ten) Cowdenbeath 0
SPFL Championship, Saturday 28 February 2015 – Tynecastle
Prior to Hearts game with Cowdenbeath on Saturday, Head Coach Robbie Neilson spoke about his aim of getting the Maroons established as a top six club in...
Queen of the South 1 Heart of Midlothian 2
SPFL Championship, Saturday 21 February 2015 – Palmerston Park
Last December, when Queen of the South came to Tynecastle I thought it was one of the best displays seen by a visiting side to Gorgie...
Livingston 2 Heart of Midlothian 3
SPFL Championship, Saturday 7 February 2015 – Energy Assets Arena
Two days after Christmas, Hearts edged a tight encounter against the SPFL Championship’s bottom club thanks to a solitary goal from James Keatings. Six weeks...
Alloa Athletic 1 Heart of Midlothian 4
SPFL Championship, Saturday 31 January 2015 – Indodrill Stadium
Much has been written in the printed and on-line media this week about how Hearts would react to their first league defeat of the season following...
Heart of Midlothian 2 Falkirk 3
SPFL Championship, Saturday 24 January 2015 – Tynecastle
After the mid-winter farce that was Hearts visit to Glasgow eight days ago, Robbie Neilson’s SPFL Championship leaders got back to football business when they entertained Falkirk...
Dumbarton 1 Heart of Midlothian 5
SPFL Championship, Saturday 10 January 2015 – The Bet Butler Stadium
The last time Hearts visited the Sons of the Rock in September they were thwarted after a goalless draw which dented their 100 per...
Livingston 0 Heart of Midlothian 1
SPFL Championship, Saturday 27 December 2014 – Energy Assets Arena
A week ago Hearts had a nine point lead at the top of the SPFL Championship. This was extended to a formidable 12 points after...
Cowdenbeath 0 Heart of Midlothian 2
SPFL Championship, Tuesday 23 December 2014 - Central Park
Another impressive performance from Hearts tonight saw Robbie Neilson's side ease to a comfortable 2-0 victory at Cowdenbeath to stretch their lead at the top of...
Heart of Midlothian 2 Alloa Athletic 0
SPFL Championship, Saturday 20 December 2014 – Tynecastle
It was very much a case of ‘as you were’ as Hearts recorded a comfortable win in their final home game of 2014 on Saturday. Against an...
Heart of Midlothian 4 Queen of the South 1
SPFL Championship, Saturday 6 December 2014 – Tynecastle
After the controversy of last week’s Scottish Cup defeat to Celtic, Hearts returned to the more routine matter of trying to secure promotion from the SPFL Championship....
Heart of Midlothian 2 Rangers 0
SPFL Championship, Saturday 22 November 2014 – Tynecastle
The last time Hearts played Rangers was back in August at Ibrox Stadium on the first weekend of the new season. Robbie Neilson’s men recorded a fine...
Falkirk 1 Heart of Midlothian 2
SPFL Championship, Saturday 15 November 2014 – The Falkirk Stadium
After last week’s struggle to overcome Raith Rovers by a single goal at Tynecastle, I looked at this weekend’s fixtures and felt there was the...
Heart of Midlothian 5 Dumbarton 1
Hearts maintained their nine point lead at the top of the SPFL Championship by hammering the one team they hadn’t yet beaten in the league this season – until Saturday afternoon. Dumbarton, managed by...
Alloa Athletic 0 Heart of Midlothian 1
SPFL Championship, Saturday 11 October 2014 – Inodrill Stadium
Hearts headed to the Inodrill Stadium on Saturday very much aware of the threat Alloa Athletic posed in this SPFL Championship meeting. Rangers were held to...
Queen of the South 0 Heart of Midlothian 3
SPFL Championship, Saturday 4 October 2014 – Palmerston Park
The Maroon Army headed to delightful Dumfries on Saturday for a fixture which had the air of a Sir Walter Scott novel about it – Queen...
Heart of Midlothian 5 Cowdenbeath 1
SPFL Championship, Saturday 20 September 2014 – Tynecastle
After a week where Scotland’s people decided to remain as part of the UK, thoughts turned to somewhat more mundane matters at Tynecastle on Saturday afternoon as...
Dumbarton 0 Heart of Midlothian 0
SPFL Championship, Saturday 13 September 2014 – The Bet Butler Stadium
Hearts 100% winning start to the league season came to an end on Saturday as Dumbarton, managed by former Hibs player Ian Murray, battled...