BDO have been appointed as the administrators of Hearts, as the club formally entered administration this afternoon.

VLADIMIR ROMANOV was eyeballed by a Lithuanian director of Hearts eight years ago and told his financial plans were disastrous. Yet he carried on regardless.

JACKIE McNAMARA today insisted that Hibs need a strong Hearts in the city and urged the Easter Road club’s supporters not to gloat over their rivals’ demise.

A UK-BASED consortium has lodged a “meaningful” takeover bid for Hearts with Ukio Bankas administrators in Lithuania.

REACHING an agreement on the future of Tynecastle Stadium has been labelled the biggest hurdle administrators face – once a dramatic courtroom battle to decide who wins the essential role is resolved.

THE first Edinburgh derby of the new SPFL season will take place at Tynecastle on the second week of the campaign.

First Minister Alex Salmond today said Hearts will survive its current financial woes and emerge “at the other end of the tunnel.”

HEARTS’ parent company UBIG has joined the administrator of the club’s largest creditor Ukio Bankas in petitioning for BDO to take over the administration of the club.

HEARTS directors were today urged to resign by a leading fans’ representative, who pleaded with the Tynecastle hierarchy: “Don’t kill our club.”

I’VE had time to sleep on the grim news about my beloved club slipping into administration, but it certainly doesn’t feel any better today than it did yesterday. We are in a state of limbo as a club and I am simply gutted for so many people.

ADMINISTRATION was once dismissed as a “Hibs hope” by the Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov. Today, it becomes the biting reality at Tynecastle.

COLIN CAMERON insisted today that the Hearts supporters can help keep the threat of liquidation at bay.

FOUR bidders for Hearts were today stepping up their efforts to gain control after the club signalled their intention to appoint administrators.

Labour MP Ian Murray, who is fronting the fan-led group hoping to gain control of Hearts, held a webchat following the club’s announcement that it is to enter administration.

TYNECASTLE cut a bleak picture as an overwhelming sense of inevitability meant there was no defiant singing or waving of banners.

THE decision by Hearts to continue selling season tickets just hours before they announced they were entering administration has been branded “appalling”.

HEARTS officials admitted today that this week is critical to their future as they attempt to stave off the threat of administration. With fixtures for the new season released on Wednesday, the Edinburgh club hope to generate vital income by selling individual match tickets immediately.

Jim Jefferies’ team clinched their place in the UEFA Cup with a final-day win over the Hibees.

“My heart’s pumping,” said Walter Kidd after being asked by the MC at last night’s Foundation of Hearts question-and-answer session whether he thought his club would survive their grave predicament.

Defiant Ian Murray MP insists the alarming developments of the past few days won’t deter the Foundation of Hearts from their bid to seize control of the Tynecastle club.