Harry McKirdy looks my Hibs mirror image so I just hope he doesn't repeat infamous strip joint gaffe - Tam McManus

Bleach blond hair, questionable clobber and a swagger to rival Liam Gallagher. Seeing Harry McKirdy walk in the door at Hibs last week was like looking in the mirror 20 years ago.

Talk about a big entrance. This guy was making an impression before he’d even kicked a ball with his look-at-me arrival in Leith. And I for one love it! Hibs are needing that bit of arrogance, confidence, cockiness, whatever you want to call it. Something tells me McKirdy isn’t a shrinking violet. I was the same.

People might think that Derek Riordan and Garry O’Connor were flash back in the day. They were actually really shy. I was the one that craved the limelight more than anyone at Easter Road. I loved scoring goals and being in the paper. As long as you can back it up there’s not a problem and I reckon McKirdy will back it up.

A word of advice for flash Harry though - avoid Edinburgh’s strip joints and don’t end up on the front pages of the tabloids. If you do get caught then don’t double your trouble by imitating a pole dance when you’re celebrating a goal days after being caught in said strippers.

It’s an infamous tale now for the ‘Hibs six’ that got shamed in a red top after being caught in a well known lap dancing establishment in the capital after a few beers. In my defence, I was 21, single and loving life and the only care I had was that my mum and dad would kill me if they found out.

Some of my older, married team mates might have been a bit more embarrassed by the whole episode mind you. We all got fined a week’s wages for shaming the club.

It got worse for me though. The next weekend we were up at Tannadice playing Dundee United. I was told in no uncertain terms by Bobby Williamson “do not do a thing to antagonise anyone -