Alan Stubbs refused to take credit for signing a goal scoring keeper as Hibs started their Champion with a 2-1 win at home to Livingston at Easter Road yesterday.
In fact both goals came from players making their competitive debuts for the club with striker Farid el Alagui giving Hibs an early lead then Marx Oxley adding a second a few minutes later.
Despite dominating the first half, they were unable to add to the two goal lead and when Livingston pulled one back early in the second half, the manager was delighted to hold on for the three points.
After the game Head Coach Stubbs told Hibernian TV: “In all honesty, I didn’t think Mark would score the winning goal today, but it’s won us the game.
“I thought we played really well at Ibrox, but took nothing from the game and today we played well for periods, especially the first half.
“In the second half, we didn’t dominate as much as I would have liked us to, but we still got the three points.
“I’ve said all along that, first and foremost, I want to win games of football and secondly if we can do that with a style of football that’s pleasing on the eye then we will. I can only build something if we can win games.
“We knew Livingston weren’t going to lie down and let us go three or four goals up. We know that no team is going to come here and let us play the way we want to play and we’re prepared for that.”
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
