“Those were the first opportunities that I had to train with the first team but I was just an extra body so it was not until the day before my debut that I trained with them on merit. “On two occasions when I was doing that under John Barnes due to an injury in a training match, I was asked to fill in. “I had trained twice with the first team prior to Martin O’Neill arriving at the club but that was down to luck on my part because two youth players would be ball boys at first-team training. “I had only played for the reserve team twice prior to that so everything moved quickly for me at Celtic at that time. “I was taken out of a reserve game at half-time and told that I would be training with the first team the following day. “I trained only once before making my debut and that was the day before the match itself. ![]() “Believe it or not, I actually did not train with them regularly before I made my debut against Rangers in 2001. ![]() How did it feel to train with those players and then play alongside them? ![]() You came into the Celtic first team in the era of Henrik Larsson and Martin O’Neill in the early 2000s. ![]() An interview with Shaun Maloney, by Callum McFadden for WFi.
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