EVERY SINGLE MOMENT OF OLD FIRM CLASH

I just need to keep pushing, keep working as hard as I possibly can.

“If I play, great. If I don’t then I need to make sure that I’m good about the dressing room and the stadium.

“You can never turn your nose up at anything and I can never throw my hands up in the air and be disappointed with not playing in games because, at the end of the day, I’m 35 and a half now.

“But I still seem to be able to work as hard as anybody else.

“I’ve kept my body in good condition and, as long as that keeps going, here’s hoping that I can keep turning the results out and keep turning in good performances for as long as I possibly can.”

Although he fully understands the reasons Brown is sad there will be no supporters inside the stadium for the first Old Firm game in 10 months.

But Lennon’s on-pitch lieutenant has made it clear that everything else will be done the same way as normal as his team gets ready for the crunch.

Brown said: “Nothing changes for us in the way that we prepare, the way we analyse or the way we set up because this is another game that we want to win.

“Our organisation behind the scenes is similar for every game and as players we can’t infer that one game is bigger than any other because every game is massive at a club like Celtic. Every game won gets us three points and every three points is huge for us.

“That said, on the day, it’s a good game to play in. It’s just sad that there are no fans at this point.

“The supporters always give you that extra push, especially in these games, but we just need to play the same way without them.”