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Then John Kennedy was the greatest player to ever grace the Scottish game because he might've been. 

Sort of, but not really

 

Kennedy only played 44 games and then retired

 

Levein essentially had 3 seasons as a superb youngster, battled injury between the ages of 22 and 25 and then had another 6 seasons at Hearts in an era when Rangers were hoovering up domestic honours

 

Had he not been temporarily derailed there’s little doubt he was destined to move on to somewhere bigger and richer than Hearts.

 

He was a classier defender than Dave McPherson for example who went to Ibrox picked up 5 medals and came back. McPherson managed to extend his career long enough to win a Scottish cup in 1998 with maroon ribbons at the age of 34. Levein had been forced to finally retire in 1997

 

His legendary status around Tynecastle is in part down to the cruel twist that indirectly resulted in him being a “one club man”.

 

I think his comeback was sufficiently improbable that he had one testimonial in his twenties and ended up with a second testimonial when his career actually ended.

 

 

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