John McGinn channels Celtic good works from Tommy Gravesen that never leaves his mind

John McGinn admits his humility and humble nature can sometimes be a weakness.

But the Scotland talisman cannot and will never change. Not when his fiancee Sara is seeing real-life issues as a social worker. Not when he’s waited an eternity to gratefully get an autograph from Thomas Gravesen. Not when he’s seen on his journey that it’s public parks and not just sparkly club academies that produce Scotland internationals.

Despite his fame, McGinn – who has won the William Hill SFWA Men's International Player of the Year award for the FOURTH year on the trot - remains the same approachable kid who started out as a hopeful at St Mirren. He said: “It’s probably my weakness at times, I am far too approachable. I just want to help everybody. There have been times this year when I have just been drained. It’s good having my fiancee (Sara) down here. She is cut from the same cloth. She thought, ‘Oh everyone thinks I am just going to sponge off John, I’m coming down here for a holiday‘. So she decided 'No, stuff that' and did three years at uni and she is now a social worker here every day.

“There are times when I have been so wrapped up in my own little bubble that I forget how tough her reality actually is when she is working with kids who are going through awful times. She is there to make a difference. It is nice sometimes when you have had a bad game or say you’ve had a good game and you get brought back down to earth that someone out there is having a tough day.

“It has made me realise and open my eyes to how much social workers actually do and how tough it actually is for kids out there. It is just the way we’ve been brought up. When you are brought up in Clydebank, Paisley I don’t think you are allowed to change whether