That desire to see the demise of rivals won't ever Budge

AS she prepares to stand down as chair of Hearts, Ann Budge deserves every word of praise for giving the club a lifeline once it had been extricated from the nefarious hands of its previous, reckless owner Vladimir Romanov.

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But my favourite story of that time involved an old acquaintance of mine, the administrator Bryan Jackson.

He went to Lithuania, the heart of Romanov's empire, to plead for shares to be returned to the club for nothing so that a takeover by what would become known as the Foundation of Hearts could proceed.