AN INTERNAL investigation conducted by Rangers is set to clear former Chief Executive Charles Green of having any links to former owner Craig Whyte.

Pat FENLON has urged his players to ignore the fact two extra officials will be watching their every move at Hampden tomorrow, telling them: “Play your own game.”

It’s a big week for Spartans, whose home match against Celtic tomorrow (kick-off 1pm) is seen as ideal preparation ahead of Wednesday’s Scottish Women’s Premier League Cup final against holders Glasgow City.

As Easter Road men bid for Scottish Cup glory against Celtic tomorrow, Scott Thomson looks back at the club’s 12 previous final appearances

Pat Fenlon today explained devastated Hibs skipper James McPake knew himself he had lost his battle against injury and the chance to lead the Easter Road side out at Hampden for the second year in succession.

JOE Harper would love to see Leigh Griffiths match his Hampden heroics for Hibs – but finish on the winning side.

Just a year after finishing a loan stint with Third Division Berwick Rangers, rookie defender Jordon Forster is primed to carry Hibs’ hopes on his young shoulders in tomorrow’s Scottish Cup final.

Hibs boss Pat Fenlon has revealed he has just one wish for tomorrow’s Scottish Cup final – that his Easter Road side simply do themselves justice.

Twelve months on and the hurt is still raw, barely a day having passed without Lewis Stevenson and his team-mates being reminded of the humiliation inflicted on them by arch-rivals Hearts.

Leith Athletic 16s’ coach Martin Owens was relieved to secure maximum points against Loanhead Miners Youth ahead of their potential league decider against Tynecastle on Tuesday night.

HEARTS striker John Sutton is happy to see out the final year of his contract at Tynecastle despite reported interest from Aberdeen.

THE match laboured under an air of gloom, an all-green clash marred by tragedy a week earlier and a game which one witness would go on to describe as “the poorest final on record, for the most part dull and dreary”.

In today’s rumour mill: Green cleared of links to Whyte; SFA boss pockets a pay rise; Hibs rocked by McPake and Griffiths injury scares; Stuart McCall has second thoughts about Sheffield United move; plus the rest of the Scottish football news and gossip.

HALF his lifetime ago, Jupp Heynckes took his initial steps in football management.

ROSS County manager Derek Adams has extended his contract until the summer of 2016.

TOTTENHAM Hotspur winger Andros Townsend has pulled out of the England Under-21 squad for this summer’s European Championship in Israel after being charged by the Football Association with betting offences.

BAYERN Munich can equal Liverpool’s haul of five European Cups by beating Dortmund at Wembley tonight in club football’s most prestigious game.

RANGERS last night said they were unable to comment on reports of an emergency board meeting yesterday.

SCOTLAND Under 19s failed to hold onto a two-goal lead against hosts Belgium, but were still encouraged by their impressive start to the Euro Elite tournament.

ALTHOUGH he is most ­commonly associated with ­Hibernian, Jim McArthur has at least tasted some Scottish Cup glory, when looking on from the Hampden terraces as ­Dunfermline, his boyhood ­favourites, ­lifted the trophy by beating Hearts in 1968.