Vladimir Romanov’s madcap Hearts team selection method revealed as Gorgie flop claims CLAIRVOYANT picked line ups

Former Hearts flop Nerijus Barasa has revealed the club's disgraced ex-owner Vladimir Romanov ordered a Lithuanian clairvoyant woman to pick the team for six matches - and it resulted in defeats against the Old Firm and in an Edinburgh derby.

The defender joined the Jambos on loan from Romanov's club in his homeland, Kaunas, but his 16 months at the club were a disaster and he eventually retired through injury at the age of 29. Romanov, 75, is still wanted by Lithuanian authorities for allegations of fraud, embezzlement and money laundering and was wanted by Interpol, but took refuge in Russia and is now a citizen of the country living in his own personal K-19 nuclear submarine.

And Barasa has revealed how Romanov's personal psychic actually picked the team during Belarussian coach Eduard Malofeyev's ill-fated short six-game stint in charge of Hearts in 2006...where they lost against Celtic, Rangers, Hibs and drew with Dunfermline, Caley Thistle and Falkirk, scoring just three goals in the process. He said: "Vladimir Romanov was in charge of Hearts and he was just weird. The Scots had no idea what was happening.

"He brought in Eduard Malofeyev as manager and the first thing he did was make all the players perform somersaults. They are like, 'we are football players, why do we need to do this?' And Romanov had his own personal clairvoyant. A woman from Lithuania who went to training every day. The masseur was from the same place too. It was crazy - they installed this device and you stuck a finger in it and it showed a percentage of how ready you were to play.

"Romanov consulted with the clairvoyant and passed on her words to the manager and that's how the team was picked. She told him that a certain player didn't