Unlucky Gretna

On Friday i Drove my sister and Cat up to Edinburgh. Jay and Yvette were going to come but Yvette needed to go out - sorry revise. and J needed to go to his nephews - sorry go to Sparks! so i had to get rid of TWO cup final tickets. I did, to my Cousins pals, who were very nice.

Got to Edinburgh at 12:30 and basically went to bed - well after a drink of juice and a whole packet of prawn crackers my mum bought with her Chinese.

Saturday i woke up early and was excited. I went and got papers, had brekkie and watched Sky sports news. My cousin Laura picked me up and we went to meet Davie and his step daughter Ashley and made our way to Glasgow to meet Ally for our tickets.

Got to a pub at 11:30 and got tickets - kinda relaxed as we had them. we went to the ground early to buy programmes and soak up that atmosphere. Hearts were going to win! everyone knew it. what could go wrong?

The game kicked off, Hearts attacked straight away. near miss then in the 8th min we hit the post - we hit it 5 more times!

then we tried to walk the ball into the back of the net instead of just shhoting. We were playing showboating footy, but not very good showboating.

in the 36 min we got a goal, and i relaxed a wee bit, we settled down and things looked better.

Half time 1-0 - we played them off the park. This was our day surly.

2nd half some of our team didnt come out of the dressing room, or so it seemed. Gretna played simple triangle football which was very effective, but thank goodness they buckled in front of goal.

They then got a peno. and Scored it. 2nd division Gretna in a fairy tale season were 1-1 in the Scottish cup final against 2nd in premiership. oh dear God!

they almost scored another. an amazing run skipping past lackluster Hearts players into the box but then Robbie Neilson slid in with an AMAZING tackle to prevent Gretna scoring what would have been the winner!

Hearts should of had a peno themselves but was denied - oh dear this might be Gretnas day.

Full time 1-1 extra time! Hearts started to play again. carving Gretna open but couldnt find the net. Gretna seemed to be holding on to penaltys wher ethey had a chance - anyone has a chance in a penalty shoot out.

all the way through the match i was texting my bro in Egypt. Told him Penos! He rang me. I had to give him running commentary all the way through. i was SSOOOO nervous. 1-0 Hearts - the captain Pressley scored.
1-1
2-1
2-2
3-2
4-2

HEARTS WIN THE CUP - only just!

The next day we went to Tynecastle and watch them parade the cup. was really good. Then i drove back to chelts last night - got in at 12. knackered. oh well it was worth it.

I will remember the victory NOT the performance.