SPL Saturday October 16th 2004

Celtic 1

Hearts 0

1:0 Camara 40
2:0 Juninho 56
3:0 Hartson 81

Att: 58,869

MIB: Kenny Clark

Celtic: Marshall Varga Sutton McNamara Agathe Juninho Lennon Petrov Wallace Camara Hartson
subs
Sylla for Juninho 82
Lambert for Hartson 82
McGeady for Petrov 84

Three points gathered from the biggest bunch of spineless swine in the league. Every time Hearts have a chance to seriously trouble the top two league positions they blow it. With any kind of bottle they could easily have grabbed second spot last season.

The maroon balloons have bad memories of their last visit to Paradise (two goals up with 3 minutes left) thus they shunned any 4-4-3 type notions and simply fielded a 10 man formation across their 18 yard line. It took the Celtic the best part of the first half but eventually we broke them down, Camara giving the Hoops a deserved lead following a lay off by BBJ, impressive given that the Welshman was the holding a WWF style challenge at the time (of course Kenny Clark would have awarded the penalty if the goal hadn't gone in, wouldn't he?).

The second half continued the way of the first, with Hearts showing a desperate lack of ambition. A neat move down the right, followed by a nice 1-2 saw Juninho finally break his duck (don't give him an empty net, give him a keeper to beat and two defenders intent on breaking his legs in to small pieces).

Hartson wrapped things up at the end with a nicely taken goal and the Jambos trudged back through east pointless as always.