John Collins was famously never shy of whipping off his top to flaunt his six pack as he drove his Hibs stars to rebellion with never ending gym sessions.
I wonder what he’d have made of Lee Johnson ’s comments on Saturday when the current Hibs manager urged his stars to go and take the shirt off the Celtic players who had just scudded them 6-1. And to ask them how they got so good in the process.
Collins paid the ultimate price for his gruelling demands which ended in the infamous Easter Road revolt. But 15 years on it’s the same issues being raised in an albeit more offbeat manner by Johnson. He said of the Hoops stars: "I look at the Japanese players and I think, 'wow you are so dynamic'. They squat, they're powerful and athletic. If I was a player, I'd be knocking on the door and trying to get a shirt, and I'd be saying: 'Tell me what you do, how do you wake up, what do you eat for breakfast?’”
