Welcome to Hampden, let me show you to your seat - actually just take the whole row
The earlier tie was in the League Cup in 2014, ICT vs Hearts at Easter Road, when despite the team finishing with nine men the recently-installed John Hughes engineered a lusty triumph to encourage the hardy travellers to begin forgetting all about the Terry Butcher years. (El Tel, of course, would switch to Hibernian whose supporters would swiftly be attempting to erase all memory of him ever being their manager).
My job that day hadn’t been an account of the match but to supply what we in the trade call “colour”. How much of that do you reckon was in evidence on a perishingly cold Sunday morning in February? Not a lot.
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