{"id":94502,"date":"2019-05-25T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T13:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/25\/hearts-v-celtic-scottish-cup-final-live\/"},"modified":"2019-05-25T15:53:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T13:53:32","slug":"hearts-v-celtic-scottish-cup-final-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=94502","title":{"rendered":"Hearts v Celtic: Scottish Cup final \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish Cup final updates from Hampden, 3pm BST kick-offLive scoreboard: the latest from Saturday\u2019s other gamesAnd you can email Scott here with your thoughts 2.52pm BST Should Celtic hold onto the famous old trophy this afternoon, it\u2019ll be the 39th time they\u2019ll have won the competition. They\u2019re already well clear of Rangers. Hearts would be lifting the cup for the ninth time, and that would nudge them closer to Victorian amateur sensations Queen\u2019s Park.38: Celtic33: Rangers10: Queen\u2019s Park8: Heart of Midlothian7: Aberdeen3: Vale of Leven, Clyde, St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Hibernian2: Renton, Third Lanark, Falkirk, Dunfermline Athletic, Motherwell, Dundee United1: Dumbarton, St Bernard\u2019s, Dundee, Partick Thistle, Greenock Morton, Airdrieonians, East Fife, St Johnstone, Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2.40pm BST And now it\u2019s Neil Lennon\u2019s turn. \u201cI think this is a great place to be, on the cusp of something very special. So the players need to forget about what comes afterwards, and enjoy the game. Obviously it\u2019s a great occasion but we have to play.\u201d Was Kieran Tierney close to fitness? \u201cYes and no. He felt OK, but the longer the session went on he began to struggle. So it\u2019s a real shame for him because he\u2019s given us everything again. He\u2019s an important player obviously, but we\u2019ve got a great deputy in Johnny Hayes to fill in. Mikey Johnston is a great talent and he showed all his talent last week. We want him to do that again. He\u2019s a goal threat, he can break the lines, and he\u2019s got good pace about him.\u201d And will young Dembele get a run-out if things are going well? \u201cWe\u2019re not here for sentiment, we\u2019re here to win a cup final. But we\u2019ll see how the game goes.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2019\/may\/25\/hearts-v-celtic-scottish-cup-final-live\" target=\"_blank\">Hearts v Celtic: Scottish Cup final \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish Cup final updates from Hampden, 3pm BST kick-offLive scoreboard: the latest from Saturday\u2019s other gamesAnd you can email Scott here with your thoughts 2.52pm BST Should Celtic hold onto the famous old trophy this afternoon, it\u2019ll be the 39th time they\u2019ll have won the competition. They\u2019re already well clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}