'Loads of positives no matter how Hearts story ends'

Tony Bloom was "laughed at" when suggesting Hearts would challenge for second place this season - but they could be crowned champions tonight.

If Celtic lose at Motherwell and Hearts win at home to Falkirk, the Tynecastle's first top-flight title in 66 years will be confirmed.

Should the race go to the final game, it will be decided at Celtic Park on Saturday when Derek McInnes' men visit the defending champions.

Hearts fan Liam Corbett, of the This is My Story podcast, feels that no matter what happens the progress made this term by a club that finished in the bottom six last term cannot be understated.

"Perspective is a massive thing for Hearts," Corbett told the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast.

"Around this time last year we drew at Motherwell 0-0 to consign us to the bottom six. If you told anybody back then that we'd be here, two games away from a title, they'd have been laughed out of Fir Park and no one would have believed it.

"When you look at the spine of that team, Derek McInnes has got pretty much six or seven of those players that were here last season playing to a much, much higher level. Still loads and loads of positives for Hearts.

"Remember too that Tony Bloom said in August that he would be disappointed if Hearts didn't finish second this season. He was laughed at. He said he can see Hearts winning the title in 10 years. Well, we're one season in and we're two games away from delivering what that.

"So there's loads and loads of positives and tonight, anything can happen. We all know that in football.

"There's a world where, this time tomorrow, Hearts could be champions. There's a world in which this time tomorrow I could be booking trips to Antarctica just to get away from everything."