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Its what has made many great teams so mentally strong in the past.... The first team that comes to mind is Alex Ferguson's Man Utd team. The English media were not exactly fair in their critisicm of Fergie's young guns when they began to take the Premiership by storm, but Alex Ferguson, the great psychologist that he is, used the medias obvious bias to help his team mentally. In an "us against all of them situation" the Man Utd players gained confidence with the medias distaste towards them. The question is, in 2005; can George Burley's men do the same?
If you're a Hearts fan, I need not tell you the new angle the West Coast media have been spouting recently. The news that George Burley and Vladimir Romanovs relationship was not all tea and biscuits got the W.C.M in overdrive on Thursday. After it was emerged that Burley had never seen new signing Samuel Cammazola play. Although Burley admitted it wasn't what he usually expected with signings. BUT Burley did state that he would put the difference behind him, for the good of Hearts. Of course thats not how the Weegie press saw it..
Obviously the situation is not ideal, but it's good news that Burley is easily willing to work past it. The West Coast were beggining to hint that Burley could leave prematurely because the reason he left Derby County was with a bust up with D. Of Football Murdo Mackay. This doesn't seem to be the case this time round, however.
The W.C.M had a field day the other day of course when Romanov cancelled out Neil Macfarlane's transfer to Dundee Utd at the 11th hour. The West Coast claimed that Burley told Macfarlane to leave the Jambos on the Wednesday night before Romanov intervened. What actually happened was that Burley told Macfarlane last month he could leave for first team football if the opportunity arose before Romanov cancelled. Not a huge bust up, more likely a breakdown in communication between a Scot and a Russian. Perfectly understandable.
The view of "us against them" seems to be spreading through the club aswell. Chief Executive "Fireworks" Phil Anderton told the papers along with chairman Lord Foulkes that Hearts were getting treated unfairly the the papers.
Now I'm all for free speech and all that stuff, but people buy these papers to read honest non-biased articles about their team. Please, I say to the West Coast Media; start writing real articles. It may not bother the Hearts on or even off the field at this moment in time, but it bothers a lot of fans....