Lubomir Moravcik enchanted the Celtic support for the three-and-a-half years he spent in Glasgow, but the little Slovak was also a key component of the Hoops side who set a modern points record in the top flight.

Celtic clocked up 103 points in season 2001-02, amassing 94 goals along the way. They would eclipse that number of goals shortly after with the ball hitting the back of the net 105 times in season 2003-04, but by then Moravcik had hung up his boots.

The playmaker, though, believes that under Brendan Rodgers, this is a Celtic team who are well on their way to leaving their own mark on the domestic landscape.

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With 58 points amassed so far this term and only two points dropped, Rodgers’ men look a sound bet to surpass the record Martin O’Neill’s men established.

“The key thing is confidence and if you have that then you find that you have so much momentum,” said Moravcik, who won a domestic Treble with the Parkhead side in O’Neill’s inaugural campaign.

“It is not just that Celtic have been winning, but winning with a certain swagger in the majority of their games. They look so much better than everyone else and when you have that ability along with the belief then you become a very hard team to stop.

“I haven’t seen too many games but I go on and watch them on YouTube to catch up and I have been really impressed with the manager. He seems to have got his message across about how he wants the team to play very quickly and I think that is always the sign of a good coach.”

Celtic have not won a Treble since O’Neill's time at the club but Moravcik has insisted that there is no envy on his part at the potential chance of the current team to follow in the footsteps of the 2000 team.

Jock Stein’s team won two Trebles but O’Neill’s men have been the only Celtic side in the modern era to celebrate a clean sweep.

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On current evidence though, Rodgers looks as though he too is capable of penning his name into the history by becoming only the third Celtic manager to lead the club towards a position of domestic dominance.

“When we won it back then we knew that it was very unusual,” said Moravcik. “We knew that it had not been done for a very long time and there was lot of us who felt very proud to be a part of it.

“Players like myself and Henrik Larsson, Tom Boyd, Paul Lambert and Jonathan Gould had been at the club when there were lots of difficult days. I think then to be there when we won three cups was special.

“We really knew that it was something to enjoy. I loved to be a part of that but delivering them for the supporters was good because they had not always had it easy.

“This team will feel the same. The thing is, though, it really is a difficult thing to do. On paper you look at games and you expect that Celtic will come through them all the time but in just one 90 minutes anyone can beat you.

“In the league it is easy to recover from a day when you are not all on it but it is not the same in the cup. You only have one chance. So it does take something special to win three cups.

“But, like I say, when you have that belief that you are the best in the country then you feel strong every time you walk on the pitch.

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“I would love to see them win all competitions this season. I still think of myself as a Celtic fan. I want to see them be as successful as they can be so there would be no jealousy on my part. I am proud of what I achieved at the club and I know how much the players would enjoy doing it – and how much the supporters would enjoy watching it.”

Moravcik also believes that there are similar traits between O’Neill and Rodgers. Certain players were transformed in Moravcik’s era under the Republic of Ireland manager’s influence while there have been a similar narrative this season.

At the turn of the millennium it was Johan Mjallby and Stiliyan Petrov who went from big-part players to lynchpins of the side, while this term players like Stuart Armstrong and Scott Brown have kicked on under Rodgers.

“It tells you a lot when that happens,” said the Slovakian. “It is obvious that the players trust the manager and want to do as he says. But you can see that throughout the whole team.

“They are an exciting team to watch and I love the fact that they are scoring lots of goals.”