The McGinn brothers have done an immense job making short shrift of ridiculous theories that they were too small to make it in professional football.Incredibly that assumption was thrown at all three members of the dynasty at a similar stage in their development years.
That the youngest of the brood, John, has gone on to be a national treasure for a resurgent Scotland as well as becoming a big fish in a huge Premier League pond with Aston Villa says it all about the foresight of the coaches who threatened to stunt his career.
The eldest sibling, Stephen, set the standard, counting Watford, Sheffield United, St Mirren, Hibs and now Kilmarnock among his clubs to prove the doubters wrong.
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