Help Sitemap Home Skip Navigation Contact Us Disability Statement

 
 
Sunday, 16th November 2008 Change Date

Premium Article !

Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button.

Options

Premium Article !

To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the Scotland On Sunday site.

Subscribe

Registered Article !

To read this article in full you must be registered with the site.

Sign In
Register

Tullberg has a hand in sporting tradition



Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image

Published Date: 17 August 2008
PUSHY parents can often be the driving force behind sporting stars, but in Mike Tullberg's case, he is glad he didn't have to follow a family tradition, writes Ed Hodge.
Signed by Csaba Laszlo on a season-long loan from Serie A outfit Reggina, he will soon be handed the task of becoming the prolific striker Hearts fans crave. However, the 22-year-old has revealed his athletic prowess could so easily have been directe
d at an otherwise unfashionable pursuit – handball.

The 6ft 2in Dane grew up into a family positively obsessed with the activity. His mother was an international, his father also a handy player, while his sister now plays professionally for FC Nordsjaelland.

Despite encouragement to follow the trend, Tullberg escaped to the other side of the country aged 15, joining a football school run by Kent Nielsen, the ex-Aston Villa defender who helped Denmark walk away with the Euro 92 trophy.

"I come from a sporting family," says the player who missed an Ibrox debut yesterday due to a thigh injury. "My mother played around 70 games for the national team at handball and my father played as well.

"My sister is playing professionally now too, so I'm only the one who is not. They tried to introduce me to handball, but I didn't like it. I think it was because I was put in goal! I said 'stop' and I went for a football school instead, run by Kent Neilsen.

"Kent is a very powerful man in Danish football and he taught me a lot about discipline."

Tullberg soon made his name with Aarhus before a £850,000 transfer to Italy last summer.

Tullberg made only seven appearances after the coach who signed him, Massimo Ficcadenti, was swiftly sacked. A third managerial change eventually occurred as Reggina – indicted in 2006 for fraud as part of the second wave of Serie A scandal investigations – went through turmoil in just escaping relegation.

Hearts, even under Vladimir Romanov's volatile charge, should prove quieter for the uncapped forward as he seeks to relaunch his career.





The full article contains 353 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
Page 1 of 1

  • Last Updated: 16 August 2008 8:16 PM
  • Source: Scotland On Sunday
  • Location: Scotland
  • Related Topics: Heart of Midlothian FC
 
1

FTH22inarow,

17/08/2008 00:18:36
Why cant i comment on the blatent cheating by the Glasgow Football Association today on the appropiate topic, a simply scandelous witchhunt
2

Jam Tarts 1874,

On the Rebound 17/08/2008 10:40:42
Surely Smith will sign Tullberg up for Rangers, they are always on the lookout for handball specialists.
3

Jambo-ree,

17/08/2008 11:41:15
Well, from reading the match report it looks as though our friend Banderson was a wee bit premature in his forecast that the time was coming when even the match officials would not be able to protect the OF. If there's decent footage of whether Miko dived or not it would be good to lodge a protest. Oh, hang on a wee while, the GFA have said no appeals are allowed for simulation. And so the cheating by the mafia goes on. As much a disgrace to Scotland as Rangers fans.
4

EDINA SOUPERIORITY,

17/08/2008 12:02:57
We need to get a grip here. Fact is that we weren't at the races yesterday...indeed we were as bad yesterday as anything we saw last season, which is annoying after how well we did after the first Motherwell game.Stewart went from goody to d1ddy and Shaba looked like a total numpty dancing around with arms flailing at the touch-line. I'm not convinced we're gonna be better, and while Shaba needs to be given a real chance,it's hard to see how so many duffers last year are gonna be turned into a strong team, especially when we clearly aren't going to spend money to improve the squad which just gets weaker.
As for Miko..how many chances is he going to get?...He should be dumped....NOW..as he cannot be relied upon.
5

victorian of gorgie ,

17/08/2008 12:21:02
#6 BILEY, we all know it's you. the very thought of you being a fellow hearts fan has brought me out in a rash. if it looks like a biley... it's a biley.

anyway,

#5 jamboree, it's just another episode in the ongoing persecution of a professional footballer who is trying to ply his trade in this country. a quite astonishing vendetta being perpetrated on a guy who made a very bad error of judgment by cheating in the international match. the error of judgment wasn't that he cheated, his error of judgment was that he didn't take into account the outrageous media & sfa led witch hunt that would ensue from him having the temerity to cheat against scotland.

as we all know, players up and down the country dive and embellish challenges every week, players of all nationality, scots very much included. for some bizarre reason, miko has been singled out as the archetypal panto villain in all of this. referees have completely bought into this culture of only recognising acts of simulation in players who have a reputation for it. they don't have the mental capacity to officiate games in a dispassionate way, they can't make decisions without being influenced by reputations and historical events.

how can a referee be happy with his own performance when he has quite blatently operated two distinctly different sets of rules in the game? apart from too much money, what exactly does a referee derive from being a top level ref that can't make the correct calls?

miko should leave scottish football right now. he's finished here. he's been 'ethnically cleansed'.



6

what a chancer,

stableforded again 17/08/2008 19:13:32
you cant win games without scoring,the midfield cant hold the ball against the oldfirm,they lose there shape and put the defenders under extra pressure,do not measure teams that play against them ,oldfirm only drop points when they are not playing to there players capabilities,the squads are miles ahead,the pay outs from t.v.,e.u.f.a.,s.f.a.and setanta secure the gulf.i may sound a tad upset but its so obviuos,plus the refs are on telly now getting away with mistakes but no result gets changed just a card formality to adjust if he is willing to bend on the monday morning.
7

Der Kaiser,

17/08/2008 22:57:01
Just watched the match highlights. Whilst we didn't look like we deserved anything from that game I think it's only fair we all have a dig at Broadfoot. His dive was simply awful. Clearly no contact, right in front of the ref and the fact he awarded a free kick to rangers will only add more fuel to the fire of the "old Firm Ref conspiracy". Miko's was bad but at least there was contact. Not enough to see him fall over I should add but it's common to hear from a lot of players the line "I felt contact so I went down". Looks like he tried it and didn't get away with it. Personally I think this is disgusting and any player who does this should be reprimanded. As for the Hearts penalty claim, sometimes you get those and sometimes you don't. Unfortunately for us this happened at Ibrox where the "Don't get those" outcome is a frequent occurrence for away teams. Miko's second yellow was also deserved IMO. Didn't look like he caught Miller but that sort of challenge (studs up) can't be tolerated.
Still, the target is third Hearts.

"Stay on target" (Gold Five)
8

Roscoe P Coltrane,

18/08/2008 11:53:51
So not only do the Hordes cheat their way to a victory at home again (what happened to the 'humping' we were going to take then Bears? the 3-or-4-nils etc that were getting predicted last week?) but thanks to the fact many of their fans are morons who can't be trusted to hold a civil conversation we can't even comment on said game?

Don't it just fill you with pride in your fellow Scots?
9

"PAWS" FOR THOUGHT,

23/08/2008 19:43:39
#& VICTORIANOFGORGIE

better make me a Byley too then, because every word there is true.........but how would YOU know VICTORIAN....it was an AWAY match wasn't it??

 

Comment on this Story

 

In order to post comments you must Register or Sign In

 
 
RSS Feed of this article's comments
Delivery formats: RSS, Atom, Javascript & Email
 
  

 
 

More Heart of Midlothian FC

More Heart of Midlothian FC >>

Today's Vote

Would the new Hearts stadium plan lead to overcrowding problems?
Yes, emergency vehicles would struggle to get in.
Yes, but these could be fixed by banning cars on match days.
No, there’s still plenty of space left for more fans.

Web Links:

Featured Advertising



Sister Newspapers:
Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.