You dig in and find a way to get a result..that IS the Celtic Way

ALISTAIR JOHNSTON knows there has always been a demand for Celtic to play in a swashbuckling style.

- MICHAEL GANNON

The Canadian may not be aware, though, that legendary chairman Sir Robert Kelly in the 50s and 60s took it a step further by bringing in a bonus scheme for players if he felt the fans had been entertained.

Playing the famous Celtic Way is in the club’s DNA but 26-year- old Johnston reckons the mantra needs a tweak when it comes to the Champions League.

It’s more about finding another way when it comes to picking up points at the elite level.

Even so, the right-back doesn’t believe shifting style is an affront to the club’s ethos.

In fact, the all-action defender is convinced the other attributes needed when going up against the big boys is exactly the right way.

Celtic had to show a few sides to their game against Club Brugge on Wednesday night.

They had to hang tough in a first period during which things were not going to plan. On another day they might have crumbled.

Such an outcome happened in that dreadful seven-goal drubbing in Dortmund last month.

But this is a different Celtic to the one left bashed and bruised by Borussia. It’s made of much tougher stuff now and they showed it again with a 1-1 draw on matchday five.