Robert Snodgrass' football education started with him kicking about the mean streets of the east end of Glasgow as a kid.
Now, as he enters the twilight of his career, the veteran’s ball-playing intelligence is a key part of a west side story - the west end of Edinburgh that is - as Hearts look to strengthen their grip as Scotland’s third force. Snodgrass is lighting up Gorgie after years of fine tuning his skills in the toughest school of all south of the border.
Better than that he’s now educating the younger members of Robbie Neilson’s team who might poke fun at his lack of pace but who would do well to tune in to his fast moving football brain. The Hearts ace admits he’s had to adapt his game as time has passed, from the free-roaming forward or winger at Leeds, Norwich, Hull, West Ham and for Scotland, he’s dropped deeper and deeper into the number six role he’s occupied his last couple of clubs including now at the Jam Tarts.
