Rangers plastering badge over Hearts crest is SCANDALOUS as sacred emblem shouldn't even be walked over - Ryan Stevenson

Let me give you a little history about the big Hearts crest on the floor of the home dressing room at Tynecastle.

It’s sacred. A special place where players would circle round for a final pep talk before going into battle out on the pitch. It was drummed into us by club legends no more so than Gary Locke that you don’t even WALK across the crest. So I can 100 per cent understand the fury coming out of Hearts at pictures of Rangers placing their own crest directly over the top of it for the SWPL Cup Final on Sunday.

I think it’s scandalous. Absolutely scandalous. Plenty of folk have had their say on Hearts being petty by putting out a statement criticising Rangers’ actions but let me defend the club because what happened was downright disrespectful. I’m not sure who’s responsible for it - the person in charge of the kit, a player or someone else in their group.

Could you imagine someone using the home dressing room at Ibrox and hanging their club badge directly over the Rangers crest Okay Tynecastle was a neutral venue for the day but was there a Partick Thistle badge in the other dressing room?

The fact of the matter is it shouldn’t happen and I totally understand the anger it’s caused. Listen, I’m not advocating any punishment. It was no doubt a genuine mistake brought about through inexperience and the game not being played at Hampden. But it shouldn’t happen again.

Speaking of Hampden, it’s all eyes on the national stadium and I’d love to see Lawrence Shankland handed the chance to lead the line again for Scotland against Northern Ireland. I can’t believe some of the criticism of his performance against the Netherlands. I thought he was superb and I’m not just saying that with a Hearts hat on.

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