The Hibs record at Celtic is embarrassing but lack of youngsters is more damning – Tam McManus

It's almost exactly 20-years to the day that I should have reported a robbery at Celtic Park.

A referee stole my hat-trick from me, I'd scored two goals only to have one chalked off for offside. That decision was so poor I should have headed straight to Baird Street Police station. Johan Mjallby scored in the 96th minute to beat us 3-2. I still think about it often, it would have been a huge moment in my career but it wasn't to be.

There were a couple of statistics thrown my way this week that have left me saddened and embarrassed. Astonishingly, it's been 13 years since a Hibs player scored a winning goal in Glasgow against Celtic. The fact it was a teenager makes the other statistic all the more damning but I'll get to that in a second. Take a bow Danny Galbraith who netted the winner in a 2-1 victory as a 19-year-old.

Danny was someone I played with, he's a great lad but who would have guessed that afternoon in 2010 would prove to be a feat we are still waiting to be repeated. It's not good enough. Now to the daddy of all damning stats. This season over half of the Scottish Premiership have given a league start to just one (or zero) homegrown players aged 21 or younger. When I first read this my jaw dropped, I had to take another few moments to make sure it was accurate.

It's an eye-popping statement of fact which tells a story about the state of our game. Let me declare a vested interest in this. I coach at one of the SFA's performance schools at Braidhurst High. I know the current landscape with young players in this country so I had a fair idea there weren't many young players starting games in the Premier League but I didn't think it was anywhere near as bad as that. You can't dress this up as anything other