Jordan Obita hadn’t heard of Lewis Stevenson before moving to Hibs - but it's taken just a few training sessions to hammer home the task he faces trying to oust a legend.
The former Wycombe and Reading left-back arrived in Edinburgh last month and admits he needed a fresh challenge because the English lower leagues had become too easy. The first of those tests - other than coping with the heat on Hibs’ warm-weather training camp in searing southern Spain - is to try and nick Stevenson’s spot as the veteran goes into his 19th season with the club.
Plenty have tried and failed before him with Croatia U21 international Marijan Cabrija cutting his stay in Leith short to return home to Rijeka after just a year last month. Now it’s Obita who’s set to push the 36-year-old who, at 576 appearances, sits fourth on Hibs’ all-time record list. And the Englishman said: “Lewis is a really good player. You’d never think he was 36! He’s done so well. I will watch him and learn from him as well.
