Barber shop: Scott Bain offers whacky saying to explain return to Celtic team

It couldn’t be said the travails that have afflicted Scott Bain and Celtic this season have robbed the likeable keeper of his sense of humour.

Scott Bain has been back in goal for Celtic's past two games. (Photo by Alan Harvey / SNS Group)

The 29-year-old is once more the man in possession of a starting berth at the club when it seemed only a matter of weeks ago he was third choice behind the still-to-settle Vasilis Barkas and 22-year-old Conor Hazard.

Bain showed a lighter side when asked if he felt, following a run across November and December that came when Barkas was dropped and ended with Hazard replacing him, his chance of playing again this season had gone. “There’s that saying that if you hang around the barber’s shop long enough you are going to get a haircut so I was always hoping I’d get back in,” he said. “Thankfully the chance has come.”

A serious rethink about how he approached his status is what, in reality, has allowed Bain an opportunity to be starting again. The Scotland international is convinced a concerted spell would provide him the sharpness to prove he can be worthy of the No.1 role at the Parkhead side – as he was two years ago.

“I made a conscious decision to get my head down,” Bain said. “Last year I didn’t have that same mentality. I was probably a little bit hacked off. This year I made a conscious effort to have a different attitude, come in and just work hard and see where that got me. I feel I’ve managed to do it so far. It’s obviously difficult [coming in and out]. Last time I felt like I was putting a good run of games together, I was getting my confidence up and I thought, with the exception of the mistake at Sparta Prague away, I thought I’d been playing well.

"It was just a case of being out of the team and trying to build that confidence back up. For me, it is all about taking it a game at a time. If I can string together 10 to 15 games I know that I am capable of performing at a level that shows I am capable of being no.1. But I never really look at it that way.”

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