No trash talk as Linn still hits top bins
BOBBY LINN spends his weekdays taking in the rubbish and his Saturdays aiming for the top bin as Arbroath’s talisman.
The winger works as a binman in Dundee and believes his day job is keeping him fit for football in the twilight of his career.
At 34, Linn is at the top of his game and netted yet another stunner in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Dundee to ensure he’ll skip into work this morning.
He said: “I’m a binman and in my job I have a lot of time to think about football.
“When you’re walking from bin to bin on a Monday morning all you can think about is a Saturday afternoon.
“I say to myself, ‘Get me to Saturday, get me to that football pitch’. As you get older you learn to appreciate football more and more.
“If we lose on a Saturday I have more time to dwell on it. If we win I’m happy. I’ll be skipping to every bin this week after the goal I scored!
“I’m used to working on the bins now. It actually helps me with my fitness because I’m so active every day.
“I get a lot of banter at work too. There are a lot of Dundee and Dundee United fans at work and we have a laugh, especially now we’re in the same league.
“The great thing for me is how we’re competing. I felt we could even have beaten Dundee and when you consider a few years ago we were in League Two that says a lot.
“We more than matched them for long spells and in the end it was hard to tell which team was part-time and which was full-time.
“It’s another point but we have a really big week coming up with Ayr and Dundee United.
“Ayr gave us a bit of a doing here. They hit us for three and it could have been more. They are the only team to have done that to us this year so we have to try and get a result down there.”
Linn’s curling opener was no more than Arbroath deserved. In fact the away side failed to register a single chance until they drew level in 61 minutes when Kane Hemmings met a Cammy Kerr cross to head beyond Derek Gaston.
The draw extends Dundee’s winless streak to four games and leaves them 14 adrift of leaders United, all but out of title contention.
Hemmings said: “If we’re all being honest we need to go for the play-offs now and take it from there.
“We need to put a run together like we did before the blip over the last few weeks. We need three or four wins to give the club a lift.
“Talking about promotion right now is crazy. It’s the last thing on our minds at the minute.
“We’d lost three games in a row going into this one and when we went a goal down it would have been easy for us to let the heads drop and crumble again.
“But we showed fight. No one can ever take away the effort we put into every game.
“So far the results haven’t matched that but we’ll get there. Anyone who watches us will never say we have a lack of effort. We’ve stopped the rot and need to prepare for a big game next week.”