Robbie Neilson insists he wasn’t bothered by Michael Beale ’s comments about Aberdeen being the third best team in Scotland.
But he’s hoping the Rangers manager and his team will be bothered by the atmosphere created by a packed Tynecastle under the lights tonight as he bids to bring Beale’s unbeaten record to a shuddering halt. The new Gers boss has apologised for any offence felt in Gorgie by his assertion a couple of weeks ago that the Dons were the best of the rest. And Neilson has been involved in Scottish football long enough to know that mountains can be created out of molehills.
So, while he’s ready to let it slide, he will be doing his utmost to send out a message in one of our game’s showpiece occasions that is, bizarrely, not being shown on live TV. Neilson said: “He got in touch through a friend of a friend. Everybody is entitled to their opinion about who is first, second, third, fourth but it didn’t bother me. He said he didn’t look at the league table and everybody blows these things out of proportion.
