Muscled-up Jambos can help end the stranglehold

IAN DURRANT welcomes Hearts investor Tony Bloom's bold claim that he wants to disrupt the Old Firm monopoly.

- BY FRASER WILSON

The Rangers hero reckons it's time the Tynecastle club stepped up their challenge along with Aberdeen, Hibs and Dundee United to join Rangers in trying to end Celtic's recent stranglehold on the title.

Durrant reckons his old Ibrox teammate Derek McInnes is the right man to take Hearts back towards the top.

But whether Brighton chief Bloom, who has injected £10m into the Tynecastle coffers as well as opening the door to his successful analytics tool for the Jambos, can deliver his vow remains to be seen.