I can only speak for myself but I think that Brendan Rodgers has long put himself in the same bracket as Jock Stein and Martin O’Neill.

He really has been a wonderful manager for the club and everything that he promised he would do when he arrived he has delivered on.

Now he has the chance to go and add a seventh piece of silverware to his record and I am sure it will be a wonderful feeling for him if he is successful in doing that.

People talk about whether it is boring to have one club dominate the domestic landscape but I can guarantee you who it isn’t boring for – the manager, the players and definitely not the supporters.

No-one gets tired of winning. No fan gets fed up turning up to see their team lift a trophy and no player ever gets tired of that feeling of a medal around your neck. Ditto the manager.

What it all comes down to is being judged on what you win and what you achieve.

Glasgow Times:
John Hartson

If anyone points the finger at Brendan from down south or anywhere else then it is a case of walking them into the trophy room and saying ‘here, take a look at this.’

He has not done too badly at all.

But he is hungry and rightly so. He wants it all and so do Celtic.

Aberdeen haven’t been in the best of form of late but they won’t fancy turning up to be whipping boys at Hampden against Celtic again. They have the advantage of a full week to prepare while Celtic are going into the game on the back of their trip to Trondheim.

But that is life at a big club. It is the way that Celtic want in and they’ll be greedy – they will want to make it out of the group every bit as much as they want to get their hands on the League Cup.

If they win it then it will kickstart all the chat about the Treble Treble but as players it truly is just about the next game. You just can’t afford to get bogged down in all of that.

That’s for the guys in the pub to enjoy and to blether about while you just need to take it as it comes.