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 he’d 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.