Craig Gordon

Players address serious situations.

There wouldn't be a Heart of Midlothian Football Club at Hampden on Sunday were it not for Paul Hartley, Craig Gordon and Stephen Presley one day forming the Rickerton Three and informing the world that Vladimir Romanov was bad for hearts.

The club went out of business.

Those three players helped.

It's just a waste of Saturday night for me.

Okay,

Mary and Michael both think it could be Craig Gordon.

Oh, no, no, no.

And I think that for teams that have gone down in recent years, I always point back to Joel Pereira at Hearts and his backup was Bobby's Lamal.

And it was like, Christ, what on earth have we done? We're a football club that had Henry Smith, Anthony Emi, Craig Gordon, and then we've

got... then we've got Joel Pereira it's

absolutely rotting and then like Dundee United with AJ Kawashima and all this kind of stuff it's like you so often you can point to a bad goalkeeper and you can point to bad recruitment and goals quite a lot of the time for teams that end up going down the defence in general though they're just they're static it's like you can't really tell if they're going zone or man because everyone just runs about them and like you say it's like it always ends up with space at the back post or it ends up with you know someone thinking oh god there's space at the back post and then there's space in the middle and it's like there doesn't seem to be a sort of cohesion in there I don't disagree with you I think that like I like John Jules I like Joe Hugel a lot I think he's a cracking footballer

I think we had to win to get third.

to secure a Champions League spot and it was Jolyon Lescott I think from a corner wasn't it where it literally just hit him in the face he didn't know anything about it and it went into the back of the net and the reason why I love that is because that is a real life give it to Gordon moment so I did

yeah best bit about that as well is i remember jaska lining in the bolton goal like he just gets done by it so he's like it's not only not only is it one of them where like the player who scored it had no idea it left the keeper standing as well

yeah yeah just great um but if you'd have actually tried to head it you know it wouldn't have it would have just could have gone

anywhere else yeah

yeah

yeah Can I chuck in Darius Vassell away at Sunderland in the Sven season, 2008-ish? He runs clean through and he kicks it one foot onto the other and it sends, I think, Craig Gordon in the Sunderland goal the wrong way.

And then in his Match of the Day interview afterwards, he basically holds his hands up and owns up to the fact that he shanked it entirely.

A few of the Scotland fans I've spoken to that were in the away end, like way up at the other side of the ground.

So they were like behind Craig Gordon.

Yeah.

And because of the way that Robertson's header kind of hit the edge of the post and went in, and then the ball rebounded back out to you, they all thought that you

But I just have to look at the information given to me as a Hearts fan and say, it feels like something's wrong here.

I mean, Craig Gordon is kind of the only instance off the top of my head that I can think of that's been, that's made like a miraculous recovery from kind of first kind of injury sustainment.

And that wasn't even at the Oriole.

That was in a game situation at Tanadice and whatever.

Right, okay, let's just go back to front.

Gordon goal.

Craig Gordon was in goals.

Even left back, you could go Kingsley, you could go Cochran.

So there was plenty of attacking confidence.

Hearts started with Craig Gordon in goal, Michael Smith, Toby Sivic, Stephen Kingsley and Alex Cochran in defence.

That great guy, Cammy Devlin, was in midfield alongside Josh Gianelli.

Orestis, I'm not even going to try and say his surname, that is a nightmare.

So Celtic took the lead after 14 minutes.

Anthony Ralston got forward and delivered the ball into the area.

There was a deflection on the cross and James Forrest was on hand to head it beyond Craig Gordon.

and that was the ideal start Celtic were ahead everybody's happy 39th minute of the game Stephen Humphreys had to come off injured on came Laurence Shankland and there was some impact he was about to make because just before half time Cameron Carter-Vickers challenged Cammy Devlin in the penalty area Nick Walsh took a lifetime to make the decision after he initially allowed play to continue.