Josh Ginnelly reckons Hearts have Rangers advantage as star recalls being bottled at Wembley

Josh Ginnelly's memory of his greatest final experience has been clouded by a bottle of beer.

Not because he drank too much of the stuff to celebrate.

But the winger was struck on the head by a full bottle of the stuff thrown from high up in the Wembley stands as Tranmere Rovers defeated Boreham Wood in the 2018 National League play-off final.

Hearts ace Ginnelly was forced to go off after just 34 minutes suffering dizzy spells in the aftermath of that ugly incident.

But it still couldn’t take the fizz out of a huge day as Micky Mellon’s Tranmere went on to win 2-1 and end their three-year exile from the English Football League.

Ginnelly admits it was a crazy 90 minutes all round after his side fought back from having a man red carded less than a minute in.

Now, as he prepares for his second Scottish Cup final with Hearts against Rangers tomorrow, the 25-year-old is desperate to create more wild memories and for all the right reasons.

Ginnelly was on the scoresheet for the Jambos in the thrilling 3-3 Hampden showdown with Celtic two years ago only to lose out on penalty kicks.

And the 25-year-old, who also won the National League with Lincoln, said: “At Hearts you are expected to win things and we've got a great chance to do that.

“I've been part of some trophy-winning games and they were all great days but this would be, without a doubt, the biggest achievement of my career.

“I had one with Lincoln in the Conference going up and the year after I went up through the play-offs with Tranmere.

“We had a man sent off 54 seconds into the game, Liam Ridehalgh.

“It was a weird day. I got bottled.

“Somebody threw something out of the crowd and it hit me on the back of the head.

“It was crazy. I ended up coming off. I went