Hearts Spent Too Much Of Their Week Focussed On Celtic And Not Enough On Motherwell.

When Ange was asked last week about the cup final, he dismissed it as an utter irrelevance to him and insisted that the focus of everyone at the club was on one game only, the Aberdeen game.

This is exactly the mentality that makes us successful.

Even at Ibrox, The Mooch was determined not to discuss it although he’s spent weeks thinking about nothing else. He said all the right things though, at least in public. He stayed focussed for once, which is a minor miracle if you ask me, in front of the press anyway although I wonder how much focus there really was inside their club this past week.

This is why I was astonished, absolutely astonished, to hear Hearts’ manager and their players talking openly about the Celtic cup draw and the game to come. They were boastful, arrogant, jolly with confidence that they would be able to get a result.

And you know what? I am sure they will have supreme focus going into that game.

But it cost them today.

It cost them three points, because locked in their ego trip over the Celtic game they forgot, utterly, that they had to deal with Motherwell.

Motherwell, who haven’t been able to buy a result. Motherwell who went into the game with an interim manager. Motherwell, who beat them, but are still just six points from bottom.

A Hearts win, which is why everyone presumably expected, would have left them utterly bereft.

Now they are buzzing again, whilst Hearts are wondering what went wrong.

They, themselves, are just five points in front of Hibs now, and that sums up how ridiculous their lack of focus this last week has been.

If they had spent as much time contemplating todays opponents as they did bragging about what they might do to us they might still have a comfortable cushion over their own rivals, instead of sweating it.