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club’s under-14 side played a fixture at Lennoxtown.

“We are trying to build something top to tail here,” he added. “For me, it is absolutely as important as the first team. To some managers it doesn’t really matter because they think ‘When these ones are 17, 18 I’ll be gone.’ I don’t see it like that. It is a legacy for me, however long I am here, is to give my very best for the duration. If you plant the seed now, ok I might not see the fruits of that but someone else will, Celtic will, and that’s important to me. If I am helping that, then that’s a duty of care.”

Short-term thinking simply won’t be considered by Rodgers who has appeared more than a little irked in recent weeks by suggestions he should perhaps adopt a more cautious and defensive approach in a Champions League group which has already seen Celtic suffer heavy defeats against Paris Saint-germain and Bayern.

He revealed that his disdain for any notion of ‘parking the bus’ was forged right at the start of his managerial career when he oversaw a crucial 2-0 win for Watford over a Swansea side previously unbeaten in 16 games.

“We were pragmatic, sat in, had a defensive block and played on the counter attack,” recalled Rodgers. “It was one of the worst games I’ve been involved in. To make it even worse,