Livingston: Stevie May back among goals and eager for silverware

It is a minor miracle May is still playing.

After his 27-goal splash for St Johnstone, the forward was one of the hottest properties in the Scottish game.

He was the inspirational spearhead, the homegrown hero in a side that would defeat Robertson’s Dundee United in the Scottish Cup final to secure the trophy for the first time in the Perth club’s history.

“Everything was just perfect,” he remembers. “It was a year people dream of. Everything I did seemed to work.

“As a team, we had huge success. It was just such a great time to be playing for St Johnstone. It was just like story from a book.”

He would get a move down south – first to Sheffield Wednesday then to Preston North End.

However, in a match away at Fulham, he suffered a terrible knee injury.

“I tried to nick the ball away,” he says. “The defender just came in full force.

“It was ACL, MCL, PCL. So it was pretty much the full shebang. And there was a little fracture in there as well. It was kind of 90 degrees, bent the wrong way. It shocked me. You get the big swell, you know something is really wrong.

“The physio pulled me in and said, ‘look, this could be you done. It’s that bad’.

“It’s tough to hear. It’s emotional. But I’m proud of myself when I look back to how I dealt with it and how I got back playing. It helped me grow as a person as well.”