Steve Clarke\u2019s<\/a> side, said: \u201cIt was a very long time ago. I was a young lost boy back then.<\/p>\n\u201cLooking back, I was young and not really aware of the importance of life and being a professional footballer. I made a lot of mistakes, especially at Hibs. It started off OK but then it wasn\u2019t good.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t leave in a good way either, so I think my time there is remembered for the wrong things. There was a big incident, a six month ban from all the nightclubs. But as I said, I was lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt helped me focus, 100 percent. A few years later I made some big decisions to sort out my life. I\u2019m happy I did that. I gave up drinking. The time at Hibs played a part in that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just couldn\u2019t handle my drinking. I gave it up and haven\u2019t had a drink for almost 11 years now. I had to focus and I\u2019ve managed to make a decent career.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Iceland’s Victor Palsson scores vs Scotland<\/p>\n
Palsson is now at Plymouth Argyle who were relegated from the English Championship last season. That was despite the efforts of Scottish striker Ryan Hardie, who bagged 12 goals for the Pilgrims.<\/p>\n
And Palsson insists he could play for Scotland. He said: \u201cRyan is a really good player and I hope we can hold on to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor two years, he\u2019s hit double figure goals in the Championship. He talks to us about Scotland. He\u2019s a great professional who wants to play for his country and I think he\u2019s done enough to get a chance – even in a friendly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully we\u2019ll see him play for Scotland in the future. Ryan is a great finisher and so quick. He\u2019s rapid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iceland fully deserved their shock win over Clarke\u2019s men at Hampden on Friday night – even if they were helped by mistakes from rookie keeper Ciaran Slicker.<\/p>\n
Palsson was delighted with the result and admits they took advantage of the goalie\u2019s fragility.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe played some great football in the first half and didn\u2019t give away many chances. We suffered a bit in the second half but overall it was a fair win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI try to put myself in the shoes of the young goalkeeper. He came on after two minutes and we could see with his first few kicks, he wasn\u2019t 100 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just started pressing him and it gave us blood on the teeth. We heard the crowd boo at half-time so we just said, keep doing what we\u2019re doing. It was a good win for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Liverpool kid admits his time in the capital in 2011 was life-changing as he changed his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,38261,21843,763,712,13315,70572,1638,70571,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-168902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-hampden-park","12":"tag-hibernian-fc","13":"tag-liverpool-fc","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-scotland-football-team","16":"tag-scotland-u19s-football-team","17":"tag-scottish-premiership","18":"tag-steve-clarke","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114650567412068585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Victor Palsson of Iceland celebrates scoring his team’s third goal against Scotland at Hampden<\/p>\n