Festive feast /Hibs and Hearts join forces to bring cheer to those in need
Hearts and Hibernian will open their stadiums on Christmas Day to feed up to 400 disadvantaged people. The Edinburgh clubs have united with NHS Lothian to deliver hospitality to those in need this festive season.
Tesco stores across the capital will supply food and goody bags for the lunches as part of the Evening News Edinburgh Cheer campaign.
Hearts midfielder Malaury Martin said: “It’s great to be launching this initiative which will help the most vulnerable from our community at Christmas time.” Hibs chief executive Leeann Dempster added: “We hope people of all ages, who might otherwise have less to look forward to at Christmas than the rest of us, can come together and have a wonderful lunch and great time.”
be in no rush to open negotiations as the dust continued to settle yesterday following the teams’ Premiership clash on Sunday, which Rangers won 2-1.
It was the second time in four days that caretaker manager Graeme Murty had inspired a victory over Mcinnes’ side. Aberdeen are desperate to get back on track in Friday’s league clash with Dundee at Dens Park and won’t welcome uncertainty over Mcinnes’ future shadowing yet another vital game The Pittodrie club have a pre-match press conference scheduled for Thursday afternoon and Mcinnes is expected to be in attendance.
Meanwhile, Rangers have launched an appeal against Ryan Jack’s latest red card.
The Scottish Football Association confirmed it received notification from Ibrox ahead of yesterday’s 3pm deadline.
Jack, below, was sent off for the fourth time this season after following through on a tackle on Stevie May during his side’s 2-1 victory over his former club Aberdeen on Sunday. The midfielder has had two red cards rescinded already this term and must hope a judicial panel overturns Willie Collum’s decision on Thursday to avoid a three-match ban.
Jack faces an extra game on top of the automatic two-match suspension for serious foul play because it will be his second ban of the campaign. He will miss games against Ross County, Hibernian and St Johnstone if the appeal fails – possibly the opening three matches of a new manager’s reign.
Rangers have problems in central defence as well as in midfield, with Graham Dorrans still out injured in Jack’s position. Bruno Alves missed the trip to Pittodrie after sustaining a knock in the midweek win over Aberdeen, and Danny Wilson went off with a head knock after opening the scoring on Sunday.
Murty said: “He was struggling to see with his vision so medically we had to take him out. It was absolutely the right thing to do.”