The Mane Man Celtic Enthusiastically Embraced by the Fans, Paddy Mccourt has Finally Emerged From the Parkhead Shadows and has No Intention of Going Back, the Winger Tells Stewart Fisher

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PADDY McCourt has been left with only nine minutes to make an impact. So no change there then. Celtic are taking the unusual step of having their usual press conference at Lennoxtown before - rather than after - their normal training session, and Tony Mowbray's typically thoughtful meanderings leave little time before his mercurial Northern Ireland international is expected on the training pitch.

McCourt has come a long way in a short time, but in terms of the journey he has plotted in his own mind, he still has a fair way to travel. Those virtuoso goals against Falkirk and St Mirren in recent weeks are sure to live long in the memory of many Celtic fans, but McCourt will regard himself as a failure if that is all people have to remember him by as the years tick by. He craves a longer satisfaction, where fi ve or 10 years down the line he will have made himself at worst a mainstay or at best a legend. After a cameo role during a disappointing Old Firm debut last week, the player has his eyes on a maiden European appearance for the club in the Europa League against Hamburg on Thursday night.

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The Mane Man Celtic Enthusiastically Embraced by the Fans, Paddy Mccourt has Finally Emerged From the Parkhead Shadows and has No Intention of Going Back, the Winger Tells Stewart Fisher

"I don't want to have scored a couple of goals, get on for 20 minutes and disappear again, " McCourt said last night. "I want to do it over five, 10 years and sit down when I'm 35 and say that I've had a decent career here. That's what...

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