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Roo: Celts to end Scottish curse

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But Rooney fancies Celtic to rock back on to European football’s biggest stage when Brendan Rodgers’ side make the same journey in the Champions League playoffs next week.

It comes after Kairat won a nerve-shredding shootout against Slovan Bratislava to book their playoff spot.

Scottish sides have never won in seven attempts on Kazakh soil including the Hoops losing 4-3 to Astana eight years ago.

But Rooney says there will be no excuses for Celtic should they fail to get what they want over two legs.

He said: "You get used to flying across Europe in big games but that one with Dons was something else. It was a good old journey, alright!

"To be fair, we were OK with Aberdeen because a lot of the sponsors used to fund the flights in Europe. We used to sell a lot on the corporate side. Some of the sponsors would then travel on the plane with the team.

"So we used to get some fairly nice planes, to be honest.

"I'm pretty sure we had the Rolling Stones' old private jet for that trip.

"The company that used to organise the trips had some big names. They said the one we had for that journey was one of the Stones' old jets.

"I'm not really a fan, they're a bit before my time! But when I heard that it still made me think 'Wow!'

"You could tell it would suit that kind of company because it was top quality.