Sitting in against the Celts
that’s possibly even more relevant to today’s match.
He said: “I remember going to Chelsea with Forest in the League Cup, when we were a League One team, and our plan was just to sit in, and sit in.
“We never got out, never laid a glove on them. And Chelsea weren’t the team they are now, although they were good.
“We were 3-0 down at half-time and they hadn’t created much. It was just that we were so ensconced in Plan A of sitting-in that we couldn’t get Plan B into action. It was gone.
“So I’ve said to the players that we’ll give it a shot against Celtic. If we get beaten, we get beaten.
“It’s not having a go that’s the problem. If we don’t have a go, we sit in and they get a 90th-minute winner and lose 1-0, we’ve still lost the game.
“We’re going to get toe-to-toe, play our style of football and get in their faces.
“We’ll try to upset them and attempt to win the game.”
Livingston make very few changes to their line-up and Holt is keen for the spine of his side to stay together for as long as possible. Continuity is a big part of their great start to the season.
He said: “I’m saying to them that if you’re in the team and doing your job, you’ll stay there.
“You want the spine of your team to be strong and then have others flit in and out around them – the creative players who can hit the heights, but also hit the lows.
“We’re fortunate in Scotland that apart from this December, we don’t play many midweek games.
“Next month will be make or break and everybody needs to be fit to play.”