It was announced in emphatic fashion in the recent league game against Celtic, the 'squiggler' added to the dictionary of words used in Scottish Football courtesy of John Rankin and his description of the word used to describe an unusual shooting technique. John's 45-yard shot on goal against the league leaders was dismissed by most as a one-off freak, although the Hibernian midfielder insisted it was practiced long and hard on the training ground after first being introduced by Derek Riordan.

Hibernian Interactive this week caught up with goalkeeper Yves Ma-Kalambay and asked the question every supporter has been wanting to ask for the last couple of weeks - has he been fooled by a Rankin 'squiggler' in training?

Yves said: "John has tried that on me in training but only Derek has scored one against me - but there was also around 300 that he tried before that he did not get past me! So yes they are trying but I've only been caught out that one time from Derek and never from John, and that is not so bad from over 300 attempts! They are difficult to catch but the trick is to get something behind the ball because it is moving a lot and it can certainly make a goalkeeper look very silly. The ball is moving a lot so the trick is to make sure you at least deflect it away from goal rather than trying to catch it."

Speaking in a frank interview to be published in the Club's 'Goalmouth' matchday programme for the next home game against Kilmarnock a week on Saturday, Yves provides an insight into the highs and lows of being a goalkeeper at Hibernian, and the fact that the some sections of the media never let up on past mistakes. The former Chelsea youngster highlights the different standards of reporting placed on goalkeepers when compared to their outfield team-mates: "It is the most frustrating thing for any goalkeeper that a striker can get five chances in a game with one-on-ones and miss, then he will score with the sixth and be a super-hero. A goalkeeper can save five one-on-ones but then drop the ball and they score - that mistake will then be highlighted and they will make fun of the goalkeeper while forgetting that the striker missed so many chances.

"But you know that is just the way goalkeeping is, I stopped thinking a long time ago about how unfair it is otherwise I would just give myself headaches. It is painful of course when you go through a run of five good games then in one game you might get one catch wrong or something like that and people start to think that he is unsafe, he is not secure and forget everything that you've done in the past. It's unfair but it does seem to be at Hibs that it is more difficult than at other teams for goalkeepers, if you don't score more goals than you concede then you are going to be highlighted and that is something I've learned the hard way here."

The Belgian Under-21 international has long since given up reading media reports post-match, insisting that there is a lack of balance or even at times common sense in such reports: "I have noticed when you watch football on television that when any goalkeepers make a mistake they are not so heavily highlighted as they are when it is a Hibernian goalkeeper. Looking at what happened to Artur Boruc in our game against Celtic, I am pretty certain that if that had been a Hibernian goalkeeper it would still be getting talked about for months afterwards.

"That is something I feel is very unfair, if you are going to be hard on one Club's goalkeepers then you need to be just as hard on every goalkeeper, don't just choose the goalkeepers at one club that you are going to be very hard on because that is wrong. Every goalkeeper makes mistakes at some point and when you do make a high-profile mistake you need to be big enough to hold your hands up, we are not super-human so we will make mistakes. But if you are going to judge a goalkeeper then do so fairly on what they do, that will make goalkeepers happy because we are men or boys growing into men who know that if we make a mistake we will aim to make things better and learn from that."

There was some good news for Mixu Paatelainen ahead of the game at Ibrox on Saturday, with striker Steven Fletcher returning to training yesterday after taking a knock and leaving the field last week. The manager also had a first look at new signing Jonatan Johansson in a closed-door match at Dens Park, Johansson has been training for the last week at the Hibernian Training Centre ahead of his officially joining the Club on 1st January.

Hibernian's Under-19 side will face Raith Rovers in the quarter-finals of the SFA Youth Cup, the Kirkcaldy side running out 6-1 winners yesterday over Civil Service Strollers.

Pics: Alan Rennie for Hibernian Interactive