The official message that will come out of Celtic Park these next few days is that all eyes are on Hamilton Accies tomorrow night.

To be fair, from the perspective of the manager and the players that is spot on, but for the Hoops support it is inevitable that thoughts are already straying to next Tuesday night and the beginning of the Champions League campaign.

It’s inevitable; after all, it’s not every Tuesday night the world’s most expensive forward line come rolling into town.

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At this stage no-one would really see or predict Celtic beating PSG. But if you were to look purely at the facts and figures and do your sums about how much that team cost to assemble, you’d take the option of not turning up and registering a 2-0 defeat.

But football isn’t like that. Historically we have all seen big nights at Celtic Park and big teams go away without the result they expected.

Celtic don’t have £198m to spend over the next decade let along on the one player – but what they do have that cannot be bought is an arena that comes to the fore on these nights. When the support do their part, as they always do in the Champions League, Celtic have a fanbase, a support and an atmosphere that is up there with the very best.

You can’t buy the history, the culture, the prestige that Celtic’s name carries. And on an opening Champions League night, that can count.

Of course, big players of any team rise to that occasion. It might not intimidate or anything like that because these are professional players who are used to performing all over the world but what it does do is lend a backing and a belief to their own players.

And that is key ahead of nights like this.

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You cannot afford to go into a game like this with any fear. You can’t line up in the tunnel nursing an inferiority complex. The reason is simple – you give a team like PSG a glimpse of that and they could destroy you.

They have the capability to do that to any team.

But if I were in charge of a team where there is such a clear imbalance, what you have to stress that in football there is no task that is impossible. Improbable? Yes. Impossible, no.

And what you really want to do is come out of this game knowing that you did not let yourself down with your performance. You can trust Celtic to be organised, to have a clear structure of how they approach the game and they will know that unlike the vast majority of games at Celtic Park, they will not have the bulk of the ball.

If you are pulling on a Celtic jersey on Tuesday night, you need to be ready to rise to the occasion. It is not that they want to step up to the plate but rather that they need to.

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PSG, like Barcelona last year, are a team who will pull opponents apart this year. They have it in them to go out an annihilate teams and all you want next week is that Celtic stay in it, that they play with a maturity and without being inhibited.

And I think you can trust them to do that.

They have come a long way since that 7-0 defeat in the Nou Camp. In actual fact for me that wasn’t the biggest disappointment of last season’s Champions League, but rather that came with the home game against Borussia Monchengladbach.

I actually felt that you see Celtic’s progression in the latter stages of the group last year and I definitely think that are more streetwise and ready for it this time around.

It is an occasion to go out and be enjoyed but it would be wrong to see that having got here in the first place that the pressure is all off. There is an inordinate amount of pressure on the qualification process but now that they are there, they don’t want to let themselves down.

There is pressure now is wanting to go out and give a strong account of themselves.

Inevitably, most will expect PSG and Bayern Munich to go and take first and second place in the group, leaving Celtic and Anderlecht to fight it out for third and a place in the Europa League.

I don’t think you look at it like that at this stage. You go out and see how it progresses, just taking each game as it comes and you just never know what happens.

Certainly, though, having got here and got themselves back into this company this is where Celtic want to make the most of it.