Cummings scored in the first half before being sent off CRAIG DOYLE/REXHibs took the biggest step yet towards securing automatic promotion from the Ladbrokes Championship with a narrow victory against one of their closest rivals at Tannadice last night. Jason Cummings’ first-half strike, his 20th goal of the season, secured all the points against a Dundee United team who played most of the match with ten men after Lewis Toshney’s first-half dismissal. The young striker can just about claim to be the hero of the night, although he could have cost his team when he, too, was sent off for having punched David Gray’s cross over the line in a late attempt to double Hibs’ lead. That bizarre turn of events was in keeping with a scrappy, ill-tempered affair that had 11 yellow cards to go…

Source: The Times March 11, 2017 01:18 UTC