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Hearts manager Jim Jefferies doesn't care about the performance, just the resultPublished Date: 02 January 2011 By Tom English The message from Jim Jefferies, beaming from ear to ear, couldn't have been clearer. "I couldn't give a toss if it was the worst game in the world," said the Hearts manager in the wake of his fourth successive victory over Hibs. "This is a sweet, sweet feeling." The satisfaction was written all over the face of the man who can do no wrong. He dished out credit to Hibs, but only for the way they managed to hold the waves of Hearts at bay for so long. "When the goal went in I don't think there could have been a person in the stadium who could have complained about it," he said, possibly forgetting that there were one or two Hibs fans who wouldn't have exactly chimed with his assessment. "We made more dangerous chances than they did. They only had the (Colin] Nish chance so it was a result that was fully deserved. "Winning gives you great belief. Winning is everything. That's where you get the determination from. You just want to keep it going. We earned the victory. If you look at these Hearts boys they work so hard for each other. "When they don't have the ball, the sheer graft and determination they show to get it back again is excellent. We didn't show it here when we lost (3-0] to Kilmarnock (on 31 October] but we've shown it in every game since then." Colin Calderwood, who confirmed that his Ivorian defender Sol Bamba is about to sign for Leicester for about �200,000, saluted the hunger of his own players while generously talking up the winning goal. "The frustrating thing is that it came from our throw-in in the final third and they went up the pitch and scored. We've got to have a process that doesn't allow that to happen. You have to say that there was terrific quality in the goal, in the dribble (from Arvydas Novikovas] and in the header (from Kevin Kyle for his tenth goal of the season]. It was good ability by the winger and it was a difficult cross to defend with Kyle coming in on it." Jefferies was positively cooing about his team and this marvellous run they're on. "I said to them at half-time be patient and it will happen for you. All they had to do was show a little bit more composure in the last third which, I suppose, is easier said than done in a derby game. Hibs made it difficult for us. We can play but we can also grind and we did that out there." On the Ian Murray incident, the Hearts manager wasn't in the mood to condemn. He merely spun it around and took the positives from it. "He (Murray] is a very committed player and I don't think he went in there with an elbow. He's gone in hard but I think the referee made the right decision with the yellow card. Although I said to Colin (Calderwood] that I'd seen players sent off for that. Maybe he was a lucky boy. "Ian was out cold. When he came around we just asked him what the score was and he said '0-0' and that was good enough for me. I didn't want to make it too hard for him. He was doing extremely well and I just had a word with him, saying that he should just concentrate on what he was doing and not back and look to do him (Murray]. He showed great discipline, which was a tribute to him." A tribute to all at Hearts. These are heady days at Tynecastle. For Hibs, the slog continues.  Taken from the Scotsman |
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