Emotions will be high at Rangers but that's not a Hearts problem on Scottish Cup final day - Ryan Stevenson

Psychological warfare - it's where this Scottish Cup Final will be won and lost and Hearts have a secret weapon in the mind games.

Emotions in football are underestimated, big occasions, the adrenalin pumped atmospheres, failure and success, it can all drain and emotionally ruin you.

Make no mistake, Hampden is now all about the mental battle between two teams who have had starkly different build-ups to this clash.

As the comedown from the Europa League Final defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt hits Rangers, it will be Hearts who will know what's required to hit them where it hurts this weekend.

It can go either way for Rangers. It's up to the Jambos to make sure they end the season with nothing and that in itself would be mental.

If I was in the Hearts camp then all I'd be thinking about is making sure we start quickly, get at the opposition from the first whistle and hope there is a bit of lag from events in Seville and capitalise on that.

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I would imagine there will be some sort of hangover from everything that's happened to Gio van Bronckhorst and his players over the last few days. Not just the final itself and the huge disappointment of losing on penalty kicks but all of the peripheral things which