Helping your side gain an unexpected point while making a comeback must make it a double reason to celebrate.

Mike Tullberg thought he would be calling it a day on his career at the tender age of 23 due to a troublesome thigh injury that just refused to heal. The Hearts striker, currently on-loan from Reggina, spent five months on the sidelines before making a return to the first-team in Saturday's 2-2 draw at Ibrox. It may have only been an 18-minute cameo but he managed to add another 57 minutes of game time when he played in Tuesday's Edinburgh derby reserve win. Tullberg was plagued by muscle tears ahead of his move to Hearts last summer and was restricted to just two first-team appearances before his latest period of downtime. He said: "I was nervous because it kept recurring. At first, I thought maybe two or three weeks and I would be back in the summer. Then it recurred again here, and it happened again and again. Of course I was afraid because I never had one muscle tear before. Then I had one, and two, and three, and four, and five in the same muscle."

Like most professional players, Tullberg just wanted to play and was frustrated that he was not making progress as fast as he would like. He returned to his native Denmark for treatment and admits taking out his frustration on those closest to him. He said: "Luckily, I have a good girlfriend who can take care of me. It was a hard time for her as well because I'm not easy to be around when I'm angry 24 hours a day." Thankfully, for his girlfriend, the anger has changed to joy once he was back in action and helped Hearts come from two goals down to claim a point at Ibrox last weekend. He said: "There was a good atmosphere in the dressing room. I was happy - one of the best days I've had in my life, because it has been a terrible time for me. It's nice to be back. It's nice to be around my team-mates again, to train with them, to enjoy, have fun. I gave the Danish doctors a hard job to solve. I'm not happy it took a long time to solve the problem but most importantly they healed the muscle right so I'm able to play again. I'm looking forward to playing at Tynecastle in front of our own fans. I'm looking forward to the rest of the season now, just concentrating on each day, and trying to get better and better."

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