[St Charles Owl]

After the final whistle, my emotions plummeted from delirious joy to disbelief and disgust in a matter of minutes. From the naivete of the thousands of ecstatic Hibs fans who invaded the pitch to the moronic thuggery of the tiny majority who intimidated and/or assaulted Rangers players and officials or caused damage to Hampden, I was horrified at the events unfolding in front of me. In one fell swoop, we allowed Rangers, of all teams, to take the moral high ground and give them a chance to twist the world-wide media coverage away from Hibs wonderful victory onto the after-match scenes.

Now, after all the years of fan trouble that have beset Rangers, they are getting pretty good at deflecting attention away from their own failings towards others. Witness the Rangers FC official statement, which complains that "BBC employees, in particular Stuart Cosgrove, believe Rod Petrie’s comments to be ‘balanced’ and others speak of a ‘minority’ of Hibernian supporters." Typically, Rangers FC cannot speak of a minority of Hibs supporters who had misbehaved. They like to give the impression that it was much worse than that.  I've read both Club's statements and the Hibs one seems to me to be perfectly balanced - http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/6529 - but the Rangers one is the work of a bitter PR department.

My day was spoiled because all people wanted to talk about was these scenes and not the brilliant game of football. To be fair, Rangers made a large contribution to the game and their day was spoiled because their players did not have their medals presented to them in front of their fans and the decent Rangers fans did not get the chance to applaud their team. Hibs day was spoiled because the team did not get the chance to parade the newly presented Cup in front of their fans and the decent Hibs fans were also denied that pleasure.

I'll always remember the marvellous day that Hibs won the Scottish Cup and we should always take great delight in helping to put Rangers back where they belong - in second place behind Hibs!

Very well put, and this was the point I was trying to make in a much more confusing manner!!!  The win was brilliant, the exuberance shown by fans was understandable but a few idiots gave Rangers and the media an excuse to make something of it, and as I say thats a shame!!

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Sco I get where your coming from and we are going to have agree to disagree on this one. Just like to add this wee point as another pointer to maybe help you understand about scottish football . 

The only people who like Rangers are Rangers fans - the only people who like Rangers fans are Rangers fans they stroll about all over Scotland Europe or where ever they play singing religious / sectarian songs what ever you want to call it making people's lives a misery with ther unruly conduct they are really unwanted by everyone bar Rangers. 

Another wee point Mark Warburton has caused a big rift between the two clubs since his arrival at Ibrox with the Scott Allan affair he's slated our style of play he's had a go at Alan Stubbs now it's came back and bit him hard on the arse he can't admit he & his team where outplayed in a major cup final and in other games by HFC. 

Now before I go everyone is talking about the invasion on Saturday I will only say one more word about RANGERS FC ................... MANCHESTER 

GGTTH WE'VE NO WON THE BIG CUP SINCE ............ Quarter to 5 

I understand Scottish football, not as well as you but even I know that this pitch invasion has gone from being a moment of joy to a bit of an own goal by the Hibs fans.  As Ritchie said, it gave the moral high ground to rangers at exactly the time when you were on top of the world!!