The ultimate Hearts Masters team as iconic six-a-side tournament returns to our screens after 10 years

After over a decade away, the Masters is set to return to our screens this summer.

That’s the blue pitch football version rather than the green jacket golf major.

Celtic and Rangers are the only Scottish representatives taking part this year, but Hearts featured when the tournament was a Sky Sports staple back in the early 2000s.

The pool of potential players eligible for the Jambos since then has grown, and thanks to Vladimir Romanov’s - almost disastrous - financial largesse, there are some big class acts who could in theory, pull on the maroon for the old six-a-sides.

Some might not be able to, nor want to, but Record Sport is discounting that in order to come up with the ultimate Hearts Masters team.

Players must be 35 or older in the year of the tournament and have turned out for the Tynecastle team.

There’s nothing in the rules about the need for players to have actually retired.

Craig Gordon technically qualifies, but given he’s still Hearts’ captain and scooping individual awards while being his country’s number one, he can pull the gloves back on after he hangs them up professionally.

So the flying Finn is the next best thing. Until Gordon arrived (then came back), Niemi was arguably the club’s greatest ever goalkeeper alongside Jim Cruickshank.

The £400,000 Jim Jefferies spent to sign him from Rangers remains one of the best bits of transfer business done by any Hearts boss.

Neimi didn't play behind the same level of defence that Gordon has, and his breathtaking agility was often displayed, on occasion saving the Jambos from the odd hammering.

You always need at least one out-and-out defender in your Master teams, but Webster’s ability to stroll through games and play from the back makes ideal.

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