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No Scottish teams even made it to the the play offs for the Champions League, so poor is our European co-efficent and so abject were Celtic against the terrifying Braga.  Yes Braga (not Sporting Lisbon or Porto).

What dross we have left all took part in Europa League play off games last night.

And in these Hearts took an absolute pasting.  A total and utter embarrasement frankly.

Rangers surrendered an away lead to the European might that is Maribor and Celtic couldn’t even score at home against another giant from Swizerland; Sion.

Is it any wonder that fans of clubs like Hibernian, Motherwell and Aberdeen stay away when we can’t outsmart the shit above?

Incidentally, having listened on the radio to the Hearts game warm up I thought Craig Levein made a very astute observation.  He commented that Hearts too often confuse ambition with expectation.  Their expectation should be to reach third in the league on the basis that they have the biggest player budget outside of the old firm and their ambition should be to win the league; but their owner is hopelessly deluded and his expectation is to win the league; hence the reason he picks the team and fires managers on at least an annual basis.

Anyway, Scottish football’s old expectation was to do well against the minnows (like Maribor, Sion and Braga) and we would set out very attack minded.  These so called minnows used to pack out their defences and frustrate us hugely before (mostly) falling to the odd goal or two.

Last night Hearts were the minnows against Spurs and should have done likewise (at least in the hope of a decent gate at the return match before going out) instead they fielded a reasonably open formation and found themselves ripped apart in defence time after time.

Was their expectation to win?  I’d have said their ambition should have been to avoid a five goal drubbing.  They failed on both counts.

Totally naive.  Ridiculous and painful to watch.