15 August 2005

3 down, only 35 to go!



Game 3: Dundee United away.

We hopped on up to Dundee yesterday for the Hearts game. It's exciting times this year, and to be honest I'm loath to miss a minute of the team this season, definitely gonna try to be going to as many away games as possible.

We got there about 2.00pm and were wondering what we could do til kick off with it being a bit early, we shouldn't have worried as there were some pretty big queues building up already.

Although being a lover of Sheds, decided to skip going in the Shed End and went into the Fair Play. The Hearts players must love playing away from home these days, so many fans in the ground early and even just coming out for the warm up gets bigger cheers then some goals got at Tynie last year!

Onto the game and two early goals from Pressley and Bednar got things off to a flyer and it was actually scary how deadly and dangerous we look attacking, compared to the toothlessness that punctuated last year's start to the season.

Must say that after the goals and for the majority of the game, Dundee United played the better football, was impressed with the touch and movement of Brebner and Kerr although the final ball never really caused any problems. They looked worthy of a goal but delighted that we held out for the clean sheet.

United will feel a bit hard done by with the third goal, while I can appreciate the offside flag was for someone who never received the ball and therefore didn't interfere with play, all the players seemed to stop and I think it summed up a pretty poor day for the referee.

Saying that as the saying goes, "play to the whistle".

So the Gorgie Express keeps rolling on and now top of the league, 2 points clear, feet need to be firmly strapped to the ground for fear of getting carried away.

Still a big test awaits next week with Aberdeen coming down to Tynie. Will be great to see Tynecastle a sell out for a non-OF or Hibs match.

I can't wait, another 3 points in the bag hopefully.....

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