Jambos in the dock

SunSport can reveal that Jambos left-back Lee Wallace was given a straight red card for branding ref Iain Brines a ‘f****** p****’ after the final whistle of their 1-0 defeat at Pittodrie.

And right-back Robbie Neilson threw PUNCHES at Dons players Chris Maguire and Lee Mair during another ferocious spat in the tunnel.

It’s understood players from both teams struggled to split up the warring stars as pent-up emotion from a towsy game erupted into ugly scenes.

Adding to Jambos’ shame last night was news that the Dons will be sending them a bill for the cost of repairing damage to a dressing-room door caused by an unidentified member of the Hearts squad.

A Dons spokesman said: “There was damage and we will be writing to Hearts.”

Csaba Laszlo’s disgraced side had earlier seen stopper Marius Zaliukas — who had already been booked — shown a straight red card for HEADBUTTING Dons’ goal hero Lee Miller.

Hearts had three other players cautioned along with four Aberdeen players in a gripping match watched by a bumper 18,021 crowd.

The Tynecastle side were livid with Brines and nursing a sense of injustice over some of his decisions.

Seething skipper Christophe Berra said: “After I got my yellow card I was SCARED to make a challenge.

“I felt if I made another challenge I was going to be sent off. That affected my game.

“I don’t think my yellow card was deserved. Even the free-kick for Aberdeen’s goal was NEVER a foul in a million years.

“I just stood my ground, protected myself and won the ball. Lee Miller went over, but people do that to Christian Nade. He’s a big strong boy, though, and he never gets those decisions.

“There’s so much I want to say — but I can’t.

“We have to deal with this like men. But there’s a lot of frustration and anger in our dressing room.”

Laszlo, reflecting on his team’s first defeat in eight games, said: “I don’t know why Lee Wallace was red-carded. You must ask the referee.

“He just came into the dressing room and he had a conversation with Lee. He told me he’d given him a red card.

“Robbie Neilson was also booked at the end. They told me somebody had kicked Robbie from behind and that Robbie had turned and looked. Because of his movement he was yellow carded.

“I don’t know what happened. I didn’t ask the referee and I didn’t make any comment to him.”

Laszlo, who will be without Wallace and Zaliukas for next week’s derby with Hibs, admitted his players would have to cool it — but said he had no plans to fine any of them.

He said: “After the game you have so many emotions, but I think we must show a little more balance.

“It is not necessary for the referee to come into our dressing room.

“The players were very aggressive. The dressing rooms here are very close and somebody pushed another. Then in came the referee and he gave the red card to Lee Wallace.

“I am sorry about this. But he is a young player and he must learn.

“Normally all the players have a discipline. But at the moment I’m not thinking about punishing these players.”

Laszlo added: “There were a lot of funny things in the game. I thought that for most of the time we played 11 v 11 we had more ball control and tried to come back.

“That is the most important thing for me.”

Berra, who is interesting Rangers, Fulham, Bolton and Everton, could be entering his final days as a Hearts player.

He said: “If somebody comes in and makes an offer the club can’t refuse, then I’m sure they will let me go.

“I’m still working on my game but I’m not going to lie —— I have ambitions to go on to bigger and better things.

“Hopefully, touch wood, it WILL happen one day.

“But Hearts are a great club and as long as I’m here I’ll always give my all.”