The best player I ever played with was John Paul McBride. Bar none. We were at St Johnstone together and he did things with the ball I’d never seen anyone do before.
He was as brilliant as he was wild. Paul Hartley, a magnificent talent, was at the club at the same time and watching how the both of them conducted themselves off the park pulled my own career onto the straight and narrow.
JP and Zico were chalk and cheese. One of them saw their career fail to reach anywhere near to its potential and one went on to play for Hearts, Celtic and Scotland.
I’m sure JP will forgive me for saying this but he had everything in his locker required to play at the very highest level but there was also a self-destruct bottom.
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