TREBLE WITH A CAUSE NOW

FOR serial Celtic winners like Callum McGregor and James Forrest, lifting silverware has become an act almost as routine as brushing their teeth.

- By Andy Newport

This weekend at Tannadice should end with the latter claiming a Premiership winners medal - a 26th major honour that will nudge Forrest ahead of the great Bobby Lennox to become the club’s most decorated servant.

With 23 senior trophies, captain McGregor could be next to draw level with the Lisbon Lion should his side go on to wrap up yet another domestic clean sweep.

But it’s worth remembering there are others at Parkhead yet to cut their treble teeth who are now looking ahead to the remaining four weeks of the season with a fresh excitement.

Liam Scales is one of them. The 26-year-old Irishman made the move to Celtic in 2021, just six months after McGregor and Forrest had helped round off an unprecedented quadruple treble triumph.

The defender was out on loan at Aberdeen when Ange Postecoglou’s side swept the board again in 2023.

Last year’s return to the Hoops line-up ended with a double, but now Scales is desperate to complete the set.

A regular barb that has been thrown at a support spoiled by a decade and more of dominance is that they have become blase about their team’s success.

But there’s no way Scales is taking the opportunity on offer over the next month for granted.

“Of course winning a treble is still special, definitely - it would be my first one,” he said.

“I was on loan when the boys won it most recently so it would be massive for me.