Scott Burns
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Sports writer @ScotExpSport & ReachPLC. Scottish transfers 👀. Views my own. Don’t write headlines & won't reveal my sources. Insta & 🧵 scottrburns.
Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined March 2010
Peter Leven will be staying at Aberdeen. He was interviewed by St Johnstone last week but has informed the Perth club over the weekend that he wants to remain at Pittodrie. Jimmy Thelin has been a major driver in his decision.
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And other genuine national champions don’t get automatic entry. Some aspects of modern football are rubbish and based on money and brands rather than football.
The Bundesliga officially will have five Champions League places next season after Dortmund's win. Fifth place in the Bundesliga currently? . Dortmund 🟡
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🔴⚪️Aberdeen have struck a £650k deal with Brommapojkarna for Alexander Jensen. Another major statement of intent by Aberdeen in the January transfer window. He has been one of Jimmy Thelin's top targets.🔴⚪️.
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🏴⚽️Great to see Aberdeen, Celtic, St Mirren, Dunfermline and Forfar all making donations to AFC Wimbledon’s pitch fundraiser, after it was recently destroyed by flooding. #footballfamily 🏴⚽️.
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Aberdeen closing in on a deal to bring Graeme Shinnie back to Pittodrie. Full story coming up at @Record_Sport and @ScotExpSport.
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@AndyConsie4 confirming his playing retirement. What a servant for @AberdeenFC and a top player for @ScotlandNT and @StJohnstone. 👏
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Dundee United selling out at St Johnstone and St Mirren asking for more tickets at Hibs shows what the post-split brings and the potential product we have. If only we could market it properly and really maximise exposure and revenues.
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Dave Vos will finalise his move from Ajax to join Giovanni van Bronckhorst's coaching staff at @RangersFC later this week. His contract will be finailsed on his return from Turkey with Ajax under-18s.
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Lost in amongst the incoming transfer news but Vicente Besuijen is due back for pre-season training with Aberdeen tomorrow. Returns after his loan at Excelsior. Fully fit after injury.
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Celtic have agreed a deal in excess of £6 million with Sheffield United for Auston Trusty. The player has agreed a five year deal and has travelled to London for a medical.
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Deal agreed with Celtic and Matt O'Riley. Announcement pending.
EXCLUSIVE! Matt O'Riley pictured at Celtic Park as new £1.5m signing arrives in Glasgow to seal deal 📸.
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Duk going AWOL and refusing to respond to calls from Aberdeen is poor. The club helped put him on the map and this is how he repays them. Some of his performances last season were embarrassing.
🔴⚪️Want-away Aberdeen star Duk facing internal disciplinary action after failing to return for pre-season training.🔴⚪️.
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🔵🔴⚪️Rangers are set to agree a new 3 year deal with talented teenager Findlay Curtis. The midfielder who made his debut against Fraserburgh and came on against Manchester United.🔵🔴⚪️
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🔴⚪️Jimmy Thelin confirms Peter Leven to remain at Aberdeen, after Raith Rovers’ approach. Thelin: “It is good Peter has eyes on him. “He is a really good coach and he deserves this, but I think he likes it here. “He stays here and his focus is here.” 🔴⚪️
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Jamie McGrath is back in Scotland finalising his loan move to @dundeeunitedfc. Move could be announced tonight. More coming at @ScotExpSport and @Record_Sport.
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It is the lack of consistency. One week it is a penalty the next it isn’t. 🤷♂️.
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Leighton Clarkson expected to remain on loan at Aberdeen for the rest of the season. Liverpool have been impressed with his progress and are happy for him to remain at Pittodrie.
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Too much loyalty to certain players. ⚪️.
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Were they not wanting him chased out the job at the end of the group stages?.
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Imagine what could happen if the authorities in Scotland treated football fans like adults.
FC Twente made more money from selling beer than from selling players over the past year. According to their 2022/23 financial report, their food and drink industry made a profit of €6m — the majority of which was from beer — whilst they made just €3.75m from player sales.
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I wonder if we will see the likes again? A club outside of the big two winning 2 trophies in a season.
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So Bobby Madden has admitted he shouldn't have sent Funso Ojo off. The SFA has backed his stance but yet the Aberdeen midfielder remains suspended! This has been an absolute embarrassment from start to finish.
The club is bitterly disappointed it has not been given a right to appeal after Funso Ojo was mistakenly sent off at the Dundee United game last Saturday. Full statement 👇.
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🏴🏴🔴⚪️Kevin Nisbet set to join Aberdeen team mates Nicky Devlin and Jack MacKenzie in the Scotland squad for the Nations League games with Croatia and Portugal.🔴⚪️🏴🏴.
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Neil Warnock has managed for more than 40 years. He has claimed that Bojan Miovski is the best striker he has had in that time. The Macedonian made it 3 goals in 2 games under the new Aberdeen manager.
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Graeme Shinnie’s ban has been increased to four games - after the appeal was thrown out. What a joke.
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🔴⚪️Aberdeen have agreed a 4 year deal with Topi Keskinen. The Dons have agreed to pay €1 million euros to HJK for their Finnish under-21 international. Deal is subject to a medical and visa. 🔴⚪️.
Transfer news LIVE ✍. Aberdeen AGREE Topi Keskinen deal as Jimmy Thelin vision sells Pittodrie move to Helsinki wide man | @ScottBurns75 . ⬇⬇⬇.
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Jim Goodwin makes his first big move as @AberdeenFC boss.
EXCLUSIVE: Ross McCrorie to sign new Aberdeen deal as Jim Goodwin makes his first move at Pittodrie | @ScottBurns75 .
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The majority of the Dundee United squad need to take a good look at themselves. They’ve let another manager, the club and the fans down badly.
Dundee United can tonight confirm we have parted company with Liam Fox who leaves his role as Head Coach by mutual agreement.
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Well done to Sir Steve Clarke and the @ScotlandNT players for qualifying for @EURO2024. What an achievement and what a qualifying campaign. Back-to-back Euros. 🏴
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🔴Aberdeen 3 Hearts 2. Aberdeen make it 13 wins on the bounce. Final whistle celebrations.🔴⚪️
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Aberdeen to get just over £1 million & a sell-on for Ylber Ramadani from Leece. Bought him for around 100k. He gave his all in his season at Pittodrie and gets a move to Serie A at 27. Everyone is a winner.
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Absolutely disgraceful. Bobby Madden’s first port of call should have been to the fourth official to get the stewards and police to deal with the offender. Instead he books and sends off the victim!.
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That is never a free kick in a month of Sundays! Absolutely robbed! That goal should have been given.
🏴 Scott McTominay thought he scored an absolute worldie. But it's been disallowed for a foul after a VAR check. 🙅♂️. #Euro2024
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Nice touch on the back of the @AberdeenFC v Celtic programme for @KevMcnaughton last night.
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🔴⚪️🏴Jack MacKenzie’s Scotland call-up will cap a remarkable rise and improvement in the Aberdeen defender over the last couple of seasons. Set to join Nicky Devlin. 🏴🔴⚪️.
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Bojan Miovski will take the headlines but I thought Dante Polvara was Aberdeen’s best player against Livingston. Real presence in the middle of the park.
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Hearing MK Dons could be a late deadline option for Aberdeen captain Anthony Stewart.
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It is fair to say @Shankland_25 was great for @dundeeunitedfc and United was great for Shanks!
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The HJK pitch last night wasn’t playable in the second half. UEFA got the game finished to fulfill their commercial commitments. Shows once again it is all about the money. The football and the fans are secondary. 🏴🇫🇮
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Fair play to Max Johnston. Was part of Steve Clarke's full squad but has now gone back to play for the 21s. A boy who just wants to play football.🏴👏.
#SCO21s | Your Scotland Men's Under-21s team to face Malta tonight 💪. 📺 Watch live on our YouTube channel from 5.30pm. #YoungTeam
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Alarm bells should have been ringing well before now. This is a major concern.
New data released by Transfermarkt underlines just how bad things have gotten in Scottish football. When it comes to offering game time to young players, the Scottish Premiership is lightyears behind the likes of Belgium, Norway and Holland.
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🔴⚪️Former Aberdeen captain Joe Lewis has called time on his playing career and has launched his own goalkeeping academy.🔴⚪️.
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🔴Aberdeen have agreed a deal with SK Brann for their captain. Nielsen has said his goodbyes and is traveling to Aberdeen for a medical and to complete his move. He has previously played for Thelin at Elfsborg.🔴⚪️.
Sivert Heltne Nilsen an Aberdeen transfer 'target' as Jimmy Thelin plots Elfsborg reunion with veteran midfielder.
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🔴⚪️@ScottishFA must look at their registration rules. It has put this young Aberdeen team in an impossible position, unable to play a lot of players who helped them win the league because they are out on loan. Ironically, the Hungarians have fielded players out on loan.🔴⚪️.
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Celtic v Aberdeen next up after the international break. Game isn’t even live on television. The top two with 100% records. 🙈🙈🙈🙈.
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🔴⚪️Aberdeen have had a £500,000 offer for Fulham's Scotland under-21 defender Ibane Bowat accepted. They have been given permission to open talks but LASK and Red Bull Salzburg are also in the fight.🔴⚪️.
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Some big performances from all the @dundeeunitedfc team against @AZAlkmaar but none more so than @DylanLevitt.
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Or Dadia has been issued with his work permit/visa and the Israeli international is in line to make his Aberdeen debut against Charlton on Saturday.
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Aberdeen successfully register Finnish international Richard Jensen ahead of tonight’s Europa League play-off. He is eligible for both legs against BK Hacken.
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🔴⚪️Aberdeen fans need not panic, there is no release clause in Jimmy Thelin’s deal. Any interested clubs would need to agree compensation and then cut through Dave Cormack’s golden handcuffs. Good luck. 😂🔴⚪️.
💥EXCLUSIVE! Jimmy Thelin Aberdeen release clause revealed after reported Wolves interest. ➡️
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🔴⚪️A bit of Jimmy ‘the Jedi’ Thelin against Dundee United. 👀 The Premiership is certainly feeling the force of his Aberdeen team.🔴⚪️
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Barry Robson makes it seven wins on the bounce at Aberdeen. Big statement with this latest win over Rangers. Surely the board must be getting to the point where he has to get the job long-term? He has proved he is more than up to the challenge and his players are behind him 100%.
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🔵⚪️Kilmarnock set to sign Calvin Ramsay on-loan from Liverpool.🔵⚪️.
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🔴⚪️The Aberdeen board proving as good as their word to back Jimmy Thelin. Spending more than £1.3m to bring in Kristers Tobers and Alexander Jensen. Jeppe Okkels has also come in on loan with an option to buy for a seven figure fee and Alfie Dorrington on loan from Spurs.🔴⚪️.
EXCLUSIVE! Aberdeen throw weight behind Jimmy Thelin with major transfer statement – money available in hunt for quality | @ScottBurns75 .
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Peter Leven has told everybody at Pittodrie who will listen, including incoming boss Jimmy Thelin, that Junior Hoilett should be given an Aberdeen contract for next season.
Junior Hoilett permanent Aberdeen transfer put to Pittodrie board but Jimmy Thelin to get final say | @ScottBurns75 .
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Nice to see UEFA setting the standard when it comes to VAR. Absolute embarrassment again! It was a penalty. Game-changing and too many wrong decisions.
Just how big a moment could this prove to be?. Aberdeen, leading 2-1, felt they should have had a penalty when Jack Mackenzie went down in the box. It wasn't given and minutes later PAOK levelled. #BBCFootball #UECL
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Get VAR in the bin! I used to be all for it but it is now killing the game.
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🔴⚪️Jack MacKenzie made his 100th Aberdeen appearance in the weekend win over Motherwell.🔴⚪️
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Rude not to visit the scene of one of the greatest achievements in Scottish football. A bit dryer than the famous night when Aberdeen captain Willie Miller lifted the European Cup Winners Cup high into the Gothenburg sky. 🔴 ⚪️
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@dundeeunitedfc have been given a Europa Conference League boost with the news Aziz Behich is available for tomorrow night's @europacnfleague clash with @AZAlkmaar. His work permit is now through.
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🔴⚪️Joe Lewis revealed that Steven Gerrard wanted to take him to Rangers but he knocked him back to sign a new deal at Aberdeen.🔴⚪️.
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Jimmy Thelin and the Aberdeen players salute the Red Army after winning a close encounter at St Johnstone.
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Tottenham Hotspur linked with Aberdeen’s Slobodan Rubezic. Don’t see him as an Ange Postecoglou defender though. He has loads of potential but is still raw. His 1 v 1 stats in duels are good. They do standout and make him attractive when it comes to scouting via data analysis.
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Connor Barron to sign a 4 year contract with Rangers. Deal likely to be done in the next 24 hours.
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🔴⚪️Aberdeen interested in HJK winger Topi Keskinen. The 21-year-old Finnish international has been on the radar since playing against the Dons in the Europa Conference League last year.
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Celtic’s hope of a January move for Beck now dead. Beck has now played for Liverpool and Dundee this season.
83' – Two more changes. ⬅️ Jones + Bradley.➡️ Beck + Clark. [0-3] | #BOULIV.
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Motherwell have lodged an official complaint with the @spfl.
Our match against Dundee will take place at 3pm this afternoon. We are deeply concerned for the welfare of all players ahead of this match due to concerns about the pitch.
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🏴I’ve got some copies of my new book ‘We can boogie - Steve Clarke’s Scotland football revival’ from @BirlinnBooks to give away. Hit retweet or like on this tweet and give me a follow. I’ll pick some random winners over the coming days. #scotland #euro2024 #tartanarmy 🇩🇪v🏴
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Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes sent to the stands for reacting to sectarian abuse subjected to him from the stands.
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Contrary to reports, Ross Stewart has not failed a medical at Southampton. The Sunderland and Scotland striker has passed every test so far. The final part of his medical has still to be completed and the move is still on.
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Ross Stewart has passed his medical and will be confirmed as a Southampton player before the 11pm deadline. He has agreed a 4 year deal. Sunderland will net a £8 million +£2million transfer fee and then future add-ons. @Record_Sport
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🔴⚪️Jimmy Thelin on the good luck message that Sven Goran Eriksson sent him when he was appointed Aberdeen boss and why he will continue to be an inspiration for Swedish coaches.🔴⚪️.
Sven Goran Eriksson's heartfelt message to Jimmy Thelin as Aberdeen boss pays tribute to Swedish great | @ScottBurns75 ✍.
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Celtic-bound.
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Didn’t really work out the way anybody hoped. Results weren’t good enough but from a press point of view, I would have to say Stephen Glass was first class to deal with and is a top guy.
Aberdeen FC this morning confirms the departure of manager Stephen Glass. Stephen has left the Dons with immediate effect alongside coaches Allan Russell and Henry Apaloo.
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Bojan Miovski leads the Pittodrie lap of honour. Is this his final farewell?
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The Dons also have a future sell-on included in the deal.
🔴⚪️Aberdeen have agreed a £6.8 million deal with Girona for Bojan Miovski. The North Macedonian international has agreed a 4 year deal with the Spanish club. Deal now subject of a medical.
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Fair play to @dundeeunitedfc. McGrath was one of Jack Ross’s top targets and the club did everything to make it happen. There have been a few twists and turns in this deal over the last few days, with other clubs coming in, but Utd look to finally get it over the line.
EXCLUSIVE! Jamie McGrath set for Dundee United transfer as in-demand winger leaves Aberdeen wanting #dufc | @ScottBurns75.
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Dundee United land two of their top summer targets for new boss Jack Ross.
EXCLUSIVE: Steven Fletcher agrees Dundee United transfer as Dylan Levitt set to make make it double signing joy | @ScottBurns75 . #DUFC .
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🔴⚪️Aberdeen in talks with Tottenham to sign talented teenager Alfie Dorrington on loan.🔴⚪️.
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Jim Goodwin has agreed a deal until the end of the season with Dundee United. It will see him go in with his no. 2 Lee Sharp and Charlie Mulgrew as his coaching team.
EXCLUSIVE: Jim Goodwin emerges as Dundee United next manager frontrunner and his first match set to be against former club Aberdeen #DUFC.
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Another error going against Motherwell confirmed by the SFA. Too many VAR/refereeing decisions have gone against the Fir Park side in recent weeks.
BREAKING! SFA confess Jack Butland's Rangers own goal against Motherwell SHOULD have stood .
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Aberdeen looked a lot more solid after they put Angus MacDonald on against Motherwell. He was a key player in getting 3rd last season but has struggled to get in the team under Barry and now Warnock. I don’t get it. He and Gartenmann are the 2 best centre halves at Pittodrie.
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Dundee’s players about to train at Dens Park after the call off
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Some move for Luke McCowan to Celtic. He deserves it. He is a brilliant guy and he was outstanding for Dundee last season and into this campaign. If he gets game time he will make an impact at Celtic. I’m sure Kav will be looking down proudly.
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Say what you want about Ron Gordon and Hibs but at least he has faced up to the media after sacking Shaun Maloney. He could have so easily taken some softball questions via club television.
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