Threepeat
that’s a lot of training and preparation and big-game mentality.
“The players will come out of this confident. They will get a bit of a longer rest this time as well. As a manager, I have to push them harder.”
He was asked, albeit a little clumsily, if the imminent arrival of Steven Gerrard across the Clyde might help keep Celtic stimulated for the season ahead.
His terse response underlined his appetite to step straight back into the battle.
He said: “It’s not even a conversation. Talk about Aberdeen. Aberdeen were second. Derek McInnes has done a brilliant job so you should talk about them.”
The truth is Saturday was for talking about Celtic. And the work that manager Rodgers has done to make history possible.
Asked if he had surpassed even his own sky-high expectations of himself, he said: “You could never imagine it could go as well as it has.
“From the first day I walked in to the club it’s been amazing. It’s always complex – it’s never as easy as it seems when you win trophies. A lot of stuff goes on behind the scenes.
“It takes a lot of hard work from all the staff and the club has really supported me in my time here, strategically. All the interests are aligned at the club and that allows me to work in confidence.
“But to think we’d be here two years later having created history? No, I’d be lying if I said I thought that.”