Callum McGregor urges 'special' Celtic team to 'write their own history' as skipper draws unseen Invincible parallel

Callum McGregor has urged Ange Postecoglou’s special guys to keep making sacrifices and write their own piece of Celtic history.

The Parkhead captain is pushing his troops and pressing home the need to stay relentless in the campaign home straight. With a Viaplay Cup in the bag, Celtic need just three points from their last five games starting against Hearts on Sunday to guarantee the Premiership title. Postecoglou’s side also have a Scottish Cup Final date next month against Inverness Caley Thistle and have a chance to win a staggering fifth club Treble since 2017.

McGregor has been involved in each of the last four having earned his first as part of Brendan Rogers’ Invincibles. Ironically, that squad cliched their title at Tynecastle with Scott Sinclair’s hat-trick the highlight of a resounding 5-0 success. That was a special team in a special season and, asked if he feels something similar is building under Postecoglou, McGregor said: “There are aspects of that. Just the way it feels.

“Sometimes you get a feeling as a player that you have special guys in there with you. And these things only happen when you have special people around you, giving everything to the cause.”

McGregor and James Forrest are the only survivors from 2017 and the skipper said: “This a new group and we have spoken about this a lot. We want to write our own history as a group of players, along with the management team.

“We have four or five weeks that can be really exciting and if we apply ourselves properly and make the right sacrifices then we’re hoping to get as many rewards as we can. So it’s a case of back to work and our full focus will be on getting a positive result at the weekend and obviously wrapping up the league.”

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