The billionaire who cried wolf
By: Ian Rose | July 2nd, 2007Okay, you all know the gist of the story, so I’ll make it brief. A young boy grows up in Russia, and rises through the totally legitimate and ethical Russian banking business to become a billionaire tycoon. Let’s call him Vlad. Okay, let’s call him Hearts owner Vlad Romanov. Anyway, he then buys a couple of football teams. But, just when he should be happiest, what with his teams and his Scrooge McDuck-like room full of gold coins, he begins to complain that the refs, the media, women, Bono, and nearly everyone else in the world is against him and his Hearts. The refs get the most attention in his rants. Year after year, there are different refs (and five different managers) but the same complaints.
Then, one day, (yesterday in fact), Hearts play a friendly against FC Tavriya of Ukraine. By all accounts (like this one, and this one), the Ukraine team just mauls Hearts. Cleats-up tackles, boots in the face, tackles from behind, all kinds of things. Tavriya gets no calls against them, while Hearts is penalized time and again. As they rush to complain about it, Hearts starts to realize that no one is listening because “Hearts complain about bad calls” isn’t exactly front-page news in Scotland.
The moral of the story, kids, is: Stop complaining and play the game. That way, when there’s something real to complain about, people might actually believe you.
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Tags: Hearts, Other things that rhyme, Save the preseason drama for your mama, Scottish Premier League, SPL, Vlad Romanov, Would you like a tissue for your issueSubscribe
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It is completely unfair to say that Hearts are complaining about the referees decisions. Its Romanov (and if were going to be fair a Scottish football pundit, who is NOT a hearts fan) who have a problem with the referees. If romanov had come in with his money, invested and then sat back and watched then i can guarantee that hearts would be far more successful than they are at the moment. His constant interfering in the decisions of which players (lithuanian all of them) to play has been outrageous. Look at when he first bought the club and George Burley was installed as head coach, we won 8 consecutive games at the start of the season and didnt look like slowing down until, what was about to become commonplace, romanov wanted to have a go at picking the players, undermining his head coach, forcing burley to leave the club. There is no danger that since romanov came if he had just let the team be one scottish cup would not be the only trophy in our cabinet from this period
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i think that hearts need to buy a few decent players if they are ever goining to get anywere also romananov needs sit back and stop interfeering in team matters otherwise relegation will undoubtably loom
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