Lee Johnson can’t wait to get his head back fully on managing Hibs - after admitting his deadline day health scare left him unable to remember if he’d finalised key signings. The Hibs boss is back in business after a brutal few weeks that saw him undergo emergency surgery to remove a perforated gall bladder.
Speaking for the first time since that operation in the final few hours of the transfer window, Johnson revealed he’d been curled up in a ball in agony while still trying to conduct business in his HTC office. Harry McKirdy, Will Fish and Mykola Kukharevych were all secured late in the day - not that the Easter Road boss could remember much about it.
The 41-year-old said: “I was literally in my office curled up in a ball because I was in agony. Someone would knock on the door and I’d act like I was all right and as soon as they’d gone I’d go back to curling up in a ball in agony again. You just keep trying to do your job.
