A decade ago Steve Kean was managing in the English Premier League but the Scot admits he'll get just as big a buzz as he watches Hibs take on Middlesbrough in a friendly at Easter Road.
The former Blackburn Rovers boss might have coached in Spain, Greece and Australia during a nomadic career, but Kean has enjoyed the sunshine in Leith for the past year. He's out of the spotlight as head of Hibs' flourishing academy, widely regarded as one of the most progressive in the country, and if he were the bombastic type - which he isn't - he can lay claim to being the only coach in the country to be taking a team into Europe beyond Christmas.
The 55-year-old's Under 19 team has beaten Molde and Nantes in the European Youth League to set up a crack at the last 16 against the big hitters of Borussia Dortmund under the lights at Easter Road in February. That's a mouth-watering prospect but the success the Hibs young team has experienced has convinced first team boss Lee Johnson to throw four of them into tomorrow's friendly against Boro.
