{"id":174726,"date":"2025-09-28T08:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174726\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:19:13","slug":"chief-executive-andrew-mckinlay-backs-hearts-to-win-league-at-some-point-scottish-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174726\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief executive Andrew McKinlay backs Hearts to win league &#8216;at some point&#8217; &#8211; Scottish gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts chief executive Andrew McKinlay believes his club could win the Scottish Premiership &#8220;at some point&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/25499364.andrew-mckinlay-exclusive-bloom-hearts-title-aim-mcinnes\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Herald &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic captain Callum McGregor plays down Hearts&#8217; promising start to the season after the Tynecastle side moved two points above the defending champions at the top of the Premiership, saying: &#8220;Anyone can get off to a good start. Aberdeen did it last year.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/callum-mcgregor-shoots-down-hearts-35977056\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGregor suggests the table will be more relevant after 36 games rather than six. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/celtic-ace-swipe-hearts-blistering-premiership-start-brendan-rodgers-hibs-5336745\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roma could face Celtic and Rangers in the Europa League in Glasgow without travelling supporters following crowd trouble in the Italian club&#8217;s recent win in Nice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15390713\/celtic-rangers-away-fans-uefa-roma-riots-europa-league\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hearts chief executive Andrew McKinlay believes his club could win the Scottish Premiership &#8220;at some point&#8221;. (Herald &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-174726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}