Vladimir Romanov Hearts interview reaction and the big debate over former owner addressed
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00:00Talking about the past it was obviously talking points over the weekend Vladimir Romanov
00:04resurfaced first time in over a decade as part of the BBC's podcast series Zarav Harsh
00:09other podcasts are available including this one which you should listen to
00:13for somebody who was a bit younger at that time when all that madness was happening I know I did
00:18that chat with you a few weeks ago Barry about particularly that era I don't need to ask your
00:23thoughts on Romanov I think anybody who's listened to this sort of knows fine well sort of your
00:28experiences with him but it has brought up again this debate of how do you view him how do you view
00:33him as a hero for for saving tine castle the scotch cups came with it some of the the great
00:39teams and great players that came through Hartree at that time or do you view him as like this
00:46a villain who basically as soon as stuff hit the fan he was out of here and hasn't really been
00:52since um I lean very slightly over one side of the fence um because I do see all the good things
00:59that he did at hearts and you know I was there covering the cup final in 2006 and in 2012
01:04and I was there the night they qualified for the champions league and I covered the champions
01:07league qualifiers and you know the subsequent European games that they had and the years after
01:12that it was difficult but there was so much stuff to write about you there was just it was gold
01:17dust a lot and if you listen to that series the BBC series and some of the stuff some of the
01:22claims that Romanov made that's just fascinating in itself that he actually thinks that some of
01:27that's true I also saw and remember the difficult things the difficult side of it the human side of
01:34it if you like people who had just bought mortgages and folk leaving the stadium in tears and people
01:40that I knew personally fearing for their jobs losing their jobs um I personally don't think
01:46that any amount of silverware in a sporting success is worth that but I feel that the
01:54the negatives there were a lot of positives but I feel the negatives outweighed them