Hearts have condemned offensive graffiti exterior their Tynecastle floor aimed at their supervisor, Robbie Neilson, as a “gross insult” and “pathetic act of vandalism”. Pictures emerged on Sunday of the phrases “fuck off Neilson”, spray painted throughout the membership’s crest mosaic on the bottom exterior the principle stand.
The Foundation of Hearts, a followers’ group who’re the membership’s majority shareholders, strongly criticised the act in a tweet on Monday. “An utterly shameful, pathetic act of vandalism at Tynecastle yesterday. If this was really the act of a Hearts ‘supporter’, it’s a gross insult to the badge and, perpetrated on [the Foundation of Hearts Plaza], named for the fans who did so much to save the club, it’s a shocking insult to all of them.”
Neilson has come beneath strain from supporters in latest weeks after a run of 5 defeats in six matches, culminating in Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at 10-man Kilmarnock. Aberdeen have reduce the hole within the race for third place within the Scottish Premiership, from 11 factors down to 1. Hearts additionally exited the Scottish Cup in March, dropping 3-0 to Celtic within the quarter-finals.
Neilson returned to Hearts for a second spell as supervisor in the summertime of 2020 and led the membership to promotion from the Championship after which a third-place end within the Premiership, in addition to two Scottish Cup ultimate defeats – to Celtic within the delayed 2020 ultimate and to Rangers final season’.
Celtic edge previous Ross County to revive nine-point lead
Jota and the substitute Alexandro Bernabei struck at the top of every half as Celtic defeated Ross County 2-0 in Dingwall to regain their nine-point benefit over Rangers earlier than Saturday’s Glasgow derby.
The Portuguese winger netted the opener after the referee, Willie Collum, deemed the ball had struck Alex Iacovitti’s arm within the space after a evaluation. Celtic had been made to work onerous for victory, solely secured when Bernabei fired house from 20 yards out deep into stoppage-time.
County stay within the relegation playoff place, two factors above Dundee United, after struggling a 3rd straight defeat. The supervisor, Malky Mackay, was sad with the penalty determination. “I’ve looked at the penalty about half a dozen times and I can not believe that’s where the bar is set with VAR,” he mentioned.
“Clubs are paying for this. I look at standards and there are mistakes all over the place. It’s going to cost jobs, it’s going to cost clubs promotion, relegation, Europe.”
The Celtic supervisor, Ange Postecoglou, was happy with a hard-fought win that extends the aspect’s successful run to fifteen video games in all competitions. “We were wasteful in front of goal and that keeps them in the game,” the Australian mentioned. “It’s then edgier than it should be, but overall the lads handled it OK. There was steel and character in the group to get the job done.”
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