Hearts captain Lawrence Shankland has scored three goals in two wins over Rangers this season
Away back in the mists of time - August, actually - in their third game of a tumultuous league season, Hearts came from 3-0 down at home to Motherwell to rescue a point, Harry Milne scoring once and Claudio Braga, soon to be the darling of Tynecastle, coming off the bench to score twice.
It was the first time they'd pulled off such an act of escapology in the league since 1969. At the time, nobody could have known the significance of it, beyond it being an admirable point for Derek McInnes' team.
In reality, it was just the start of club and league milestones sent tumbling. Hearts have been top of the league since the first week of October, a piece of front-running not seen by a non-Old Firm club since Alex Ferguson was in his pomp at Aberdeen.
As October made way for November and November moved into December, Hearts endured. Outside of Celtic and Rangers, they are the only team to be top of the league at Christmas since 1993 and it was the first time since 1994-95 that they'd beaten the Old Firm twice in one season. They won four straight games against Celtic and Rangers for the first time since 1959-60.
