Opening day heartbreak....

Spurs 2 - 1 Liverpool - Dundee Utd 2 - 0 Hearts

And so it came to pass, 3 months of anticipation and excitement, time spent dreaming and hoping, culminating in a depressing weekend all round....

A friend of mine texted me, probably as a Samaritan, to see whether I could cope with doubling my weekly disappointment, both teams already playing catch up in their respective quests for glory..

Now I'm not a harbinger of doom, I can accept defeat as part and parcel of the game, but you may recall in my last blog I was talking about Belief, this was more on the part of the supporters, to believe and get behind the teams, and, judging by the atmosphere at both White Hart Lane and Tannadice, you guys did your parts.

An Alonso-less Liverpool looked sorry in parts, no drive, poor body language, no BELIEF, Hearts whilst playing well in parts, again to me seemed to lack BELIEF that they could get something from the game, especially after going one down (do Hearts strikers know they have to be somewhere in the same postcode as the goal to get a chance to score?).

Both teams are getting used to new systems and personnel, so the shape and the overall gameplan is not necessarily quite there yet, but the opening day desire should be.

Thankfully both teams can get it out of their system quickly, Liverpool at home to Stoke on Wednesday and Hearts with the trickier task of Dinamo Zagreb away on Thurs.

Watching Hearts yesterday was my first full introduction to the SPL, sure I'd seen a few old firm games, but very little of the rest of the league, the standard of football was good,though more akin to the championship in England, but I thought the standard of refereeing yesterday was dreadful, (hopefully this just applies to Mr Conroy?) didnt allow a physical (but overall fair) encounter to flow as much as it might.

I still feel somewhat disjointed as a Hearts fan, hopefully after the Rangers game on Sunday, I'll have more of a first hand idea of what it's all about, and hopefully 3 points in the bag....

So back to the TV for more viewing this week, here's to a better week's results, and hopefully no more Evertonians are going to ruin my weekend.....just had to be Cadamarteri didnt it!!!