JACK ROSS has vowed to wear his lucky green cardigan at the Scottish Cup final after it came up trumps for Hibernian once again at Hampden yesterday.

Ross wore the cardigan as Hibs squeezed past Motherwell on penalties at the quarter-final stage, and again yesterday as his side overcame Dundee United comfortably to book a return to the national stadium on May 22nd.

Ross said: "I relented because I am under pressure all the time to wear Hibs branded gear in the dugout and I am never going to do that, so I bought this a couple of weeks ago and thought, 'it's green, that's a good starting point'.

“I actually wasn't going to wear it today then decided to, so I am pretty sure it's coming out on Cup final day. It has to stay now.”

Ross’s knitwear may have had an influence right enough as his team benefitted from an erroneous offside call when Christian Doidge ran through to score their second goal of the afternoon.

But the Hibs manager said the decisions evened themselves out over the course of the game.

"It was a brilliant goal,” he said. “It is tight.

“Bobby blows his whistle far too quickly when Chris is through on goal later on in the game, we could point to that should have been a goal.

“If those fine margins went for us today, then great, because we had some fine margins go against us in previous games with the crossbar being hit etc, so we'll take it. You need it to win semis and finals.”