Hearts have demanded “solutions” after the Rangers badge was caught over their emblem within the house dressing room at Tynecastle for the Sky Sports activities Cup remaining.
Rangers Girls had been the ‘house’ membership within the remaining, which they won 4-1 against Partick Thistle.
Photographs and movies of a Rangers crest sticker over the Hearts badge surfaced on social media, sparking a backlash from Jambos followers.
Hearts say they may “demand solutions” from the SWPL and Rangers “to make sure that our membership crest isn’t defaced once more”.
The Edinburgh membership’s assertion learn: “Coronary heart of Midlothian Soccer Membership is conscious of photographs circulating of the Tynecastle Park house dressing room at at present’s Sky Sports activities Cup Remaining. Though the membership fingers over the operating of the stadium on the day to the competitors organisers – the SWPL – we had been concerned with pre-match planning.
“We might due to this fact wish to guarantee our supporters that we didn’t approve any request for dressing room branding in both dressing room for both membership concerned. This can be very disappointing to be taught that our needs had been disregarded.
“How this got here to be is a matter for the SWPL and Rangers to kind, however for sure no rationalization shall be passable in our eyes or the eyes of our followers.
“Nonetheless, we are going to demand solutions to make sure that our membership crest isn’t defaced once more. Additionally it is regrettable that this motion has taken away the main target from what was a profitable cup remaining and one other alternative to develop girls’s soccer in Scotland.”
Rangers declined to touch upon the matter, Sky Sports activities Information has additionally contacted the SWPL.
