Oscar-winning movie sets up Scales for blockbusting display

LIAM SCALES spent the long-haul trek to Kazakhstan catching up on classic films such as LA Confidential.

- BY MICHAEL GANNON

But the defender is hoping for a blockbuster display from the Hoops tonight rather than being left investigating a Champions League crime scene.

Scales and the Hoops squad had plenty of time to kill on the mammoth 10-hour flight to the former Soviet outpost.

Rollo Tomasi sounds like one of the million names linked with Celtic over the summer rather than the mysterious murderer in the 1990s Russell Crowe epic.

But it helped take Scales mind off the magnitude of what is at stake for Celtic this evening.

Scales said: “The journey was OK, the plane we travel on is comfortable. We have it to ourselves, we get fed well, so it's all really professional.

“The fact we travelled on Sunday also helps. It gives us that little bit more time to get over the flight.

“But it won't affect me and a lot of the players are the same.

“It was a comfortable enough flight. I watched LA Confidential.

“I have been going through lists on IMDB of the best movies to watch and then picking ones out for the journey.

“I hadn't seen it before so I enjoyed it. We travel a lot so I've been thinking of ways to spend the time on flights and in hotels.

“So I'm working my way through the best films.

“We have today to focus. There will be a team meeting then we'll go through everything again.