This Is Our Story: Inside Hearts - 1 ª Season

The 2019/2020 season is under way and Hearts aren't doing well. The fans are not happy. Manager Craig Levein has just been sacked and the club is in limbo. Sitting at the bottom of the table and on a losing streak - the pressure is on for chairman Ann Budge to find a new manager quickly, but she's determined to take her time and get the right person. The club has all the infrastructure in place to remain one of the top clubs in Scottish football, but plagued with injuries, the first team are struggling to crawl back up the Premiership league table. Assistant coach Austin MacPhee is interim manager while Ann Budge and the board interview prospective candidates from all over the world. Team and staff morale is low... the players are disheartened by the lack of goals and worried that relegation looks closer after every game. While the men's team linger at the bottom of the table, the women's team are on their way up. A win against Partick Thistle puts them up a league to SWPL 1.

It's December, four months into the season, and Hearts' woes on the pitch continue. Since the arrival of new manager Daniel Stendel, the team have played three games and have lost all of them. Players, staff and fans are optimistic ahead of the Boxing Day derby against arch-rivals Hibs, but that too ends in a disappointing defeat and leaves Hearts lingering at the bottom of the Scottish Premiership league table. The new year brings a much-needed break from games and an opportunity for Daniel Stendel to pull together a team that he is happy with. He kicks off the winter break by taking his current squad of players go-karting for some team bonding, trying to raise morale and confidence after their recent run of poor results. It's also an opportunity for him to get to know his players and help him understand who has the character needed to get Hearts out of their current predicament.

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