Scott McKenna still has the video nasty of the day he was given his marching orders for almost halving John McGinn in two.
By the big defender’s own admission that X-rated Scottish Cup shocker in which he dumped the midfielder on his now famous derriere remains the worst tackle of his career. Five years on from that walk of shame nobody is more delighted than McKenna to see McGinn enter Scottish football’s hall of fame.
Scotland ’s talismanic midfielder and stand-in skipper will join the list of legends on the Hampden roll of honour with his 50th cap this evening while McKenna is on the verge of his 28th. It’s a far cry from when McGinn was strutting his stuff with Hibs while McKenna was making a name for himself in the wrong kind of way on loan at Ayr from Aberdeen. The footage of that scything ‘tackle’ that caught McGinn somewhere round the midriff midway through a Scottish Cup tie at Easter Road still gets produced at very international camp.
