Hibs: Stephen Glass turns to Easter Road in bid to keep his playing career sparkling

Former Hibs star Stephen Glass has enlisted the help of the Easter Road outfit in a bid to extend his playing career after finding himself without a club following his release by Dunfermline.

Although the midfielder is now 34, he believes he still has three or four years to offer before he finally hangs up his boots.

Glass, however, finds himself in the same position as a number of prominent professionals, trying to convince managers that they still have much more to offer.

Having spent most of last season on the sidelines with a knee injury sustained just days after the campaign's opening game, the highly-experienced Glass fears he is suffering from being labelled injury prone although he is adamant that isn't the case. After seeing a trial at St Mirren come to nothing, the former Aberdeen, Newcastle, Watford and Scotland star had been training with only his wife Carla for company but is now making use of Hibs' impressive East Mains Training Centre to keep himself in top condition knowing that, as a free agent, he can sign outwith the transfer window.

Invited in by John Hughes after one-time Pars team-mate Sol Bamba had alerted the former Hibs manager to his plight, Glass said: "Running round the local park myself is one thing, but being in every day training with the squad, being pushed along by the rest of the boys and doing everything they are doing bar the matches is far more like it.

"I've been in for the past few weeks, determined that if something does come up then I'll be ready to play right away rather than be trying to get up to speed.

"Often when you are offered training facilities you can be seen as an outsider but the Hibs boys have been quite accommodating."

Glass, a veteran of more than 450 matches and with an A licence coaching qualification, admits that, having spent the past 15 years in football, he's found the past few months highly frustrating but contends he still has much more to offer. He said: "The motivation is to finish my career on a high note rather than any monetary concerns."