Could Hearts become European football’s biggest success story? | The Football Boardroom
5/14/202634 min
Hearts have radically shaken up Scottish football this season, challenging the 40-year dominance of the Old Firm in fearsome fashion. How have they done it? How crucial has Tony Bloom’s involvement been? What about the cutting edge role of Jamestown Analytics? And if we are only at the foothills of a multi-year project, what does the summit look like? Henry and Christian dig into a footballing revolution which has origins and reverberations far beyond the Scottish border. Email in via: getintouch@thefootballboardroom.co.uk Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFootballBoardroom Follow us on Instagram: @footballboardroompod Follow us on TikTok: @footballboardroompod Follow us on X: @FootyBoardroom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsHenry Winter· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Christian, what a night of football in Scotland. Just an incredible night. Celtic beat Motherwell with a last-minute penalty. Hearts beat Falkirk three-nil and now travel to Celtic Park. You couldn't, you could not script this. Robbie Burns couldn't script this. They have to travel to Celtic Park at the weekend, and a win or draw brings them their first title in 66 years. And I wanna know from you, because you know these characters, so I, I wanna talk a little bit about Tony Bloom and his influence on Hearts. I wanna know about Jamestown Analytics, who you are very aware of, having been embedded in, in three English football clubs. I wanna know all about that. But first I wanna know, where on earth did you get those curtains?
Christian Purslow· Host0:57
[laughs] Well, I'm on one of my bucket trips, which is around the Scottish Highlands. It's not my grandma's bathroom, but the curtains look like it. So I'm well up in the Highlands. Reception's a bit crap if, uh, I apologize to our audience if it's not up to our usual standards. But yeah, being up here and, uh, talking to lots of people in the last two days, the big, the big events of this evening have panned out probably as most expected. It's going to the last day. And I just want our non-Scottish audience to