Not for the first time in his relatively brief stint as Celtic manager, Brendan Rodgers finds himself on the cusp of making history with the Parkhead side.

This afternoon’s meeting with Kilmarnock at Celtic Park allows Celtic to level a century old record tomorrow afternoon, with the evidence offered at Pittodrie on Wednesday evening suggesting that there are few domestically who will live with Celtic at the minute.

Having gone 61 games unbeaten domestically – Rodgers has overseen 60 of those – the sheer consistency of the run suggests that the ruthlessness which Rodgers preaches is visible on the training round daily.

And no matter what he has achieved already at the club, Rodgers has maintained that he has never lost the fear factor that goes hand-in-hand with management.

“You live with that fear as a manager. Always,” he said.

“I think you can never rely on what you did yesterday. It doesn’t guarantee you success tomorrow.

“The worry for me coming in to here was, considering the people I grew up with and now working at the club I supported, that I would fail. And how that would feel.

“And I still have that in my own mind. So that’s part of the driving force to ensure that you can never become complacent.

“But thankfully I’ve got an outstanding board of directors here and we communicate very well.

“We’re very clear on our strategy going forward and very much in unison.

“But, as a manager, yeah. You never stop thinking that way.”

Celtic put down a marker in Aberdeen this week as they blew Derek McInnes’ side away with a performance that was difficult to find fault with.

Rodgers enjoyed watching it but also believes that the philosophy he has implemented throughout the club is the reason for the fluency in the Granite City.

There was a hint of criticism towards Celtic and the way they played against Bayern Munich in Germany a few weeks back, but according to Rodgers there can be no compromise on the strategy if the team is to grow and improve.

“I have enjoyed us a lot in my time here,” said Rodgers. “I think we put another signpost in the ground in terms of showing the way and the direction that we are heading in and it is all linked. You go back to the Bayern Munich game and people talk about being pragmatic.

“Being pragmatic you don’t play like that. It is a process. In the second half against Bayern our guys actually showed well. It is all linked to how you work. It is easy for people who have no commitment to anything to play great football one day, be pragmatic the next day and then play football again. You then don’t have any commitment. You are not committing to any one way or working.

“I don’t look for validation but for someone I have never met before, there was a real nice comment from Willie Miller. He is someone whom I had seen growing up as a brilliant player and someone I respected as a footballer.

“I have never met him in my life and towards the end of the game he talked about how he hadn’t seen a Scottish team play this way so it is important how we work. We still have a lot to do but we are getting there.

“For us it was a wonderful demonstration of how we train and how we work….the level of our football. I have taken a Swansea team around the Premier League and a Liverpool team around the Premier League and played in some big pressure games and played well. That was right up there with those games.

“That is a deliverance of how we work. It was pleasing and I though Derek was very honest and humble after the game. It has gone. We reflected on it and we move on to the next game with the aim to win again.”

Celtic will go into this afternoon’s game against Killie with Jozo Simunovic still sidelined while Anthony Ralston faces surgery on a knee injury.

Rodgers will go up against old friend Steve Clarke this afternoon, who took over from Lee McCulloch at Rugby Park last week.

Rodgers revealed the former Chelsea and Scotland defender influenced his career and insists his recruitment by the Ayrshire club is "very much" a coup.

"Stevie was the youth coach at Chelsea and when Jose Mourinho moved him up to the first team they were looking for someone to bring in to do that role.

"They were looking for a specific type of coach to come in and I was one of the ones nominated and thankfully I was given the job at the time. I had a great relationship with him. He is a good guy, real knowledge of football and he took it into his coaching.”