‘It’s sacred’ ‘Scandalous’ ‘Disrespectful’ Former Hearts star nears breakdown over crest outrage

Ryan Stevenson has been sharing his horror and anger over the crest from a club formed in 2012 being placed in prime position in the home dressing room at Tynecastle.

It seems that the crest has provoked more anger from Jambos than the consistent hammerings that they’ve taken under Steven Naismith and Robbie Neilson.

Dressing room coverage from Sunday’s Sky Sports Cup Final triggered some keyboard outrage with Stevenson jumping on board the offended bus to share his horror and outrage.

Expressing his anger in the Daily Record, the tattooed former striker explains:

Let me give you a little history about the big Hearts crest on the floor of the home dressing room at Tynecastle.

It’s sacred. A special place where players would circle round for a final pep talk before going into battle out on the pitch. It was drummed into us by club legends no more so than Gary Locke that you don’t even WALK across the crest.

So I can 100 per cent understand the fury coming out of Hearts at pictures of Rangers placing their own crest directly over the top of it for the SWPL Cup Final on Sunday.

I think it’s scandalous. Absolutely scandalous. Plenty of folk have had their say on Hearts being petty by putting out a statement criticising Rangers’ actions but let me defend the club because what happened was downright disrespectful.

Hearts will host the Ibrox club in a post split fixture, it remains to be seen how horrified Naismith and his squad are for that match.