Craig Gordon believes Hearts have every right to be in a relegation rage and theyll use it to fuel their promotion fire next season.

The keeper rejoined the Jambos on a two-year deal on Monday after his six-year stint at Celtic came to an end.

The 37-year-old knocked back an offer from the champs, which he revealed included an enormous wage drop from his previous deal.

Hearts and Partick Thistle are in court on Wednesday as part of their legal challenge against relegation to the Championship and League One respectively.

Gordon insists the pair should feel aggrieved and that the anger towards the SPFL plus other clubs is understandable.

He said: Everybody in the sporting world has a great deal of sympathy for Hearts. Its a difficult thing the club are having to deal with at the moment.

Its a feeling of injustice for the fans and players. As a player you can only feel sorry for the guys who didnt get the chance to put things right on the pitch.

They still had eight games to go and yet they had that chance taken away from them. From a sporting point of view, as a fellow player, thats pretty hard to take.

Theyll be hurting from not getting that opportunity as will the fans who were also denied that opportunity to see out the season and get behind the club and team to achieve the results that would have got them out of trouble.

There are a lot of things which are going to make Hearts fans, players and everyone else associated with the club very angry and quite rightly so. If any club or any player was in that same situation then theyd feel the same way.

Gordon admits the desire to right some perceived wrongs and settle scores if Hearts bid to scrap the drop does fail played a part in his call to return 13 years on, having been Fraser Forsters understudy.

He said: There are a whole host of things that were involved in making the decision but yes it was something that came into my mind. This has happened and who knows what may happen in the coming weeks.

There is still a lot of discussion to be had in that area so I dont want to say too much about it.

But yeah for me to come back and help fight for Hearts to get back to where they want to be is something I wanted to do.

And it will be a fired-up Hearts that mount their bid for the Championship title come October, ready to take out their anger.

He said: That would be what every player would want to do. The motivation from last season will be to have a good season and prove everybody wrong.

There is going to be quite a big fallout from this. Its going to last for quite some time, maybe even years, in terms of rivalries and people feeling wronged by other clubs.

Thats going to last because of how everything worked out and the injustice felt by a number of teams. There is going to be that added little spice to things because of that.

And Hearts are going to have the greatest burden of that after being put in a position where they feel unjustly relegated.

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