Celtic star pulls back the curtains on what the champions did at Christmas as Yuletide shenanigans put to one side

Greg Taylor revealed there was no time for charades in the Celtic team hotel on Christmas night.

The only festive party games the Hoops squad are interesting in this week are the ones that come with three points. Brendan Rodgers allowed his men to have Christmas Eve off and then the morning with the families. But it was back to business on Christmas afternoon for today’s Boxing Day dust-up with Dundee.

Taylor had no complaints putting the Yuletide shenanigans to one side as he knows this part of the season is strictly business. He said: “We were in a hotel. There was no charades or anything like that! You train a bit later on Christmas Day so you get the morning with your families and enjoy that with them, because they have a lot of sacrifice throughout the season. You’re away in a lot of hotels, and can be away at three games a week.

“So, as much as we are in such a privileged position as footballers, and I would never take it for granted because it’s an amazing honour to play at this club and play professional football as your living, but it is one of the days you try to give back to them because there is a lot of sacrifice for them.

“I celebrated it on Christmas Eve because we were off. We’ll had the family up and enjoyed it with them. Pretty standard, prawn cocktail, soup, turkey, ham … certainly no wine for me though, I left that for other people!”

“Then we trained on Christmas Day to be ready to prep for Dundee. It’s been a lot of games and we want to finish it with strong performances and positive results. That starts on Boxing Day against Dundee.”

No charades but Celtic look like themselves again on Saturday against Livingston and Parkhead sounded more like itself once more too. The performance was more like it