Heart of Midlothian v Tottenham Hotspur, UEFA Cup qualifying

[SpaceCruiser]

So we have the Scots v the English tonight, but it's not really that, is it, it's more Edinburgh v London? Anyway, it's half-time and Spurs are already winning 3-0. Does this prove once and for all how bad Scottish football is and that Rangers and Celtic would not necessarily do well in English football if they ever were to get in, which I hope is never.

One other thing, a more general question about the UEFA Cup. Why on Earth is this being played on a Thursday night? In fact, why are all UEFA Cup games on Thursday nights? It forces the clubs that are involved to shift their league games on Saturdays to Sundays. Which lunatic dreamed this idea up?

[cmonurz]

1. No.

2. The lunatic who realised you can make a shitload more cash selling TV rights for Europa League games if they aren't played at the same time as CL matches.

[who are ya?]

1. No.

Yes.

[SpaceCruiser]

Correct me, isn't a one footed studs up challenge that made contact a sending off offence? If so, Kaboul is very extremely lucky to only get a yellow card and still be on the pitch.

[Friday's Legacy]

0-4 very easy for spurs. the divide is huge.

[Hoop Blah]

Correct me, isn't a one footed studs up challenge that made contact a sending off offence? If so, Kaboul is very extremely lucky to only get a yellow card and still be on the pitch.

Depends if the ref thinks it's reckless or dangerous.

[cmonurz]

Correct me, isn't a one footed studs up challenge that made contact a sending off offence? If so, Kaboul is very extremely lucky to only get a yellow card and still be on the pitch.

Depends if the ref thinks it's reckless or dangerous.

^This.

Its very easy to be stretching for the ball, with one foot, with your studs not pointing at the ground.

[Friday's Legacy]

0-5 brilliant team goal. easy pickings for spurs.

[RoyalJames101]

Townsend has looked quite lively so far since he's come on

[SpaceCruiser]

Well, that was a bit one sided, wasn't it? And Hearts finished 3rd in their league last season, whereas Spurs finished 5th. Didn't Hearts draw at Rangers earlier this season?

[Friday's Legacy]

Well, that was a bit one sided, wasn't it? And Hearts finished 3rd in their league last season, whereas Spurs finished 5th. Didn't Hearts draw at Rangers earlier this season?

why are you even trying to draw comparisions? the average standard of player in the scottish premier league is average championship to league 1 level.

[who are ya?]

No chants about the looting from the Hearts crowd, missed oppertunity if ever I saw one

[paultheroyal]

Great thread

[TFF]

No chants about the looting from the Hearts crowd, missed oppertunity if ever I saw one

I hope one of the papers has gone with "Tottenham run riot"

[Mr Angry]

No chants about the looting from the Hearts crowd, missed oppertunity if ever I saw one

There were chants about "Your town, is burning down, your town is burning down...."

Very witty.... but stopped after the 2nd goal.

[roadrunner]

No chants about the looting from the Hearts crowd, missed oppertunity if ever I saw one

There were chants about "Your town, is burning down, your town is burning down...."

Very witty.... but stopped after the 2nd goal.

Usual banter between sides but I did smile when Hearts were chanting "You're gunna win fck all" and then Spurs predictably came back with "You've never won fck all" and it went very quiet very quickly LOL.

[Terminal Boardom]

Laughable. Simply laughable. Hearts would struggle in League 1.

[floyd__streete]

SpLOL is so very, very poor. If Reading played in that division we'd easily finish top ten.

[Wax Jacket]

SpLOL is so very, very poor. If Reading played in that division we'd easily finish top ten.

chuckLOLe

[RoyalChicagoFC]

A more general question about the UEFA Cup. Why on Earth is this being played on a Thursday night? In fact, why are all UEFA Cup games on Thursday nights? It forces the clubs that are involved to shift their league games on Saturdays to Sundays. Which lunatic dreamed this idea up?

Two strictly pendantic* points for your edific8ion, ol' Spacepack

1) It's rather highfalutingly called the Europa League now, although of course I do acknowledge that old habits of speech die hard; and

2) Not all Europa League matches are played, as you assert, on Thursday nites --as the group stage begins to wind down in November/December, the Europa League and Champions League cease playing within the same week, with the net effect being that the Europa League (or, more to the point, UEFA acting for them) lays claim to Wednesdays in addition to Thursdays (more interest at that point of the proceedings, more matches on TV, more viewers, more incentive for corporate sponsors to spend their money getting their goods and services before watching eyes, etc --or so goes the theory anyway)

Oh, and last nite's result "proves" nothing other than the fact that Tottnum were significantly better than Hearts on the occasion (and, at a stretch, that they're superior to begin with and would be expected to win most head to head one-off encounters of actual significance; Hearts of course could win the second leg 2-0, which would garner them no reward be even less probative of anything meaningful that was last nite's decisive result)

Nice spending a few minutes visiting with you then


*sic