Way Hearts! Give Way to the Continental Club Masters

Way Hearts, the boys are good. No one, not even die hard of rivals Asante Kotoko and Accra Great Olympics will fail to acknowledge the prowess of the Phobians this year. They won the league with ease and got to the finals of the prestigious African Champions League with a flourish. They now stand on the threshold of the Champions league Cup and a money-spinning entry into next year's World Club Championship.
This would be one up on their fiercest rivals who have won the African championship twice without a trip to the World Club Champions. It would be no mean an achievement and this writer applauds one of the most thorough professional jobs in the Ghanaian game. Last Sunday, an under-strength Hearts of Oak, cautious to a fault, in their desire to avoid yellow cards were held to a 1-1 draw by Senegalese champions Jean d'Arc.
The 1-1 score-line did not add or subtract to a seasonal performance that must rank the best in any club history in this land of our birth.
Hearts sailed through the entire Champions League without conceding a single defeat. That is the hall-mark of true champions, for which players, officials and supporters are allowed to let their hair down a bit.
Significantly, last Sunday's outing marked the 89th anniversary of the founding of the Great Oak Tree which was planted in Accra on 11th November 1911. What a great birthday present. With this great feat, Hearts will take the field against Esperance of Tunis, one of the true great champions in African football for the first leg of the final of finals in Tunis, probably on Saturday, December 2. That would be a dress rehearsal for the coronation at the Accra Sports Stadium before the eyes of their adoring fans on Sunday, December 17.

That is when the title Continental Club Masters that Hearts conferred on themselves in the 1970s is sure to come to fruition. I cannot wait to milk the day. The Championship Final will turn the attention of the football world on Ghana. One hopes everybody will contribute to make the day memorable for our 97 years experience of promoting the game of football since students of Government Boys School at Cape Coast pioneered the game under moonlight at Victoria Park in the Central Regional capital in 1903. W-A-Y HEARTS: The Boys Are Fantastic!