WE DO OUR TIC TALK ON THE PITCH

Classy Callum stays humble in wake of third trophy as skipper as he shows Sakala Celtic have the mob mentality

- MICHAEL GANNON

HE'S not the kind guy to give it the big Get it Right Up Yez. Even if he must have been sorely tempted.

It's simply not Callum McGregor's style and he resisted the temptation to put the boot into poor Fashion Sakala when he stood inside Hampden last night clutching the League Cup trophy.

But the Celtic captain did prove to be a man of his word. McGregor said in the build-up hed leave the trash talk and do whatever talking he wanted to do on the National Stadium surface yesterday afternoon.

And the other mob' turned out to be just too good for Rangers. And as for the Ibrox striker's claim his team were better there was a shiny prize tucked under the Celtic skipper's arm to prove otherwise. "Exactly," McGregor said: "As a club we want to do our talking on the pitch and I think we did that.

"More often than not you hear these comments coming out before big games but it's important for us to block it out. You can't affect what anyone else is saying or doing.

"The gaffer said it doing the week we only listen to ourselves. The only voices we need are our own and his.

"We continue to push each other and do our talking on the pitch when it matters. Good teams win trophies and they win them consistently.

That's the be all and end all in football.

"You're tasked to win and judged when you don't win.

"If you want to last a long time at these clubs you have to be successful when the trophies are being handed out."

McGregor now has 18 of them on his mantelpiece at home but the defeated opponents didn't hang about to see him lift his latest.