Hibs executive chairman Ron Gordon has launched a critical verbal assault on the SPFL for their scheduling of the season's first Edinburgh derby.
The match against Hearts takes place at Easter Road on August 7 and doubles up as manager Lee Johnson's first home Premiership game. Gordon doesn't understand the scheduling and reckons the football authorities have made a mess of that fixture and where it is placed. There is also the small matter of Rangers coming to Leith too before the end of August. Their owner reckons it will have an adverse impact on attendances amid construction work at the stadium.
Gordon told Hibs fan media outlets: "I’m not happy. I think the league, putting the derby so early in the season… for a variety of reasons, number one, we’re doing construction, we’re going to get the west stand completed on the Wednesday or Thursday of the Sunday before Hearts.
