POINT where you want the ball, stroll into space to collect it. Pop it five yards to a mate, point where you want it next. 2 Callum McGregor gave Steve Clarke a painful reminder of what he's going to miss Credit: PA 2 The Celtic skipper has called time on Scotland duty to preserve his career Credit: Getty Repeat for 90 minutes, walking around with your head on a swivel, while the opposition are running like maniacs to try and pin you down.
Take a touch 30 yards out. Have a look up. Realise there’s no home shirt within five yards, unwrap a protein bar, eat half of it and put the rest down your sock for later.
Look up again. Realise there’s still no home shirt within five yards. Ping one in the far corner.
That was Callum McGregor at Easter Road, pit-patting through his first game since quitting Scotland to give himself more downtime between club commitments. Read More Celtic GLASS ACT Callum McGregor 'can look himself in mirror' as he explains Scotland quit call MEGA OFFER Get £50 in free bets to spend on football when you stake £10 with Betfred And maybe thinking that if only he got to play this Hibs team every week, he could have won 200 caps with a cigar on. As for Steve Clarke , looking down from the directors box, he must have been asking himself the same question that’s bugged every Tartan Army footsoldier since the news broke.
How come a guy this good, this fit, with this much footballing intellligence, doesn’t want to be in our team any more? More to the poin.