Hibs vs Hearts is biggest game in BRITAIN this weekend and new boys will be blown away – Ryan Stevenson

The bus journey from Tynecastle to Easter Road took less than an hour but was all I needed to realise what an Edinburgh derby in enemy territory meant to Hearts.

Before I’d even reached Leith the blood was pumping through my veins on that coach ready to jump off and hit Hibs like an LRT double decker. Thankfully that first taste of the capital collision in the north side of the city ended in a 2-1 victory and nothing in my career comes close to matching those moments.

I’m envious of Elton Kabangu, Michael Steinwender, Sander Kartum and Jamie McCart as they prepare to be driven into the unknown on Sunday. This is the biggest Edinburgh derby for years. It’s the biggest game in Britain this weekend hands down. And they’d better be ready to be blown away. It's the best thing ever. It starts the morning of the game, when you turn up to Tynecastle or if it's at the training ground. But when you jump on the bus and you're driving through the middle of Edinburgh the adrenaline goes from zero to 60.

Honestly, if you could put that emotion in a bottle and sell it you’d be loaded. My experience of it was Billy Brown and Gary Locke playing a video of all the big goals from previous Edinburgh derbies on a loop with Hearts songs over the top. I was sitting up the back thinking, ‘see if I die tomorrow, I've lived my dream’.

This fixture is everything that everybody wants to be involved with in football. The fact both are in such good form and battling for third place makes it monumental.

Everybody across the divide will agree: this is the way it should be. Hibs winning most weeks, Hearts winning most weeks and the two of them going head to head to fight out.

Sunday is massive for Hearts and the mentality should be that they need to go