Leigh Griffiths reveals Celtic fan boos reduced him to tears as striker admits 'I was crying in the car'

Leigh Griffiths talks about his last game as a Celtic player being the lowest point in his one-man football melodrama.

Booed by his own fans and after eight years at the club, 261 appearances and 123 goals, the tears started to flow as he realised it was over.

Arriving as a substitute in a friendly against West Ham, every touch of the ball came with the sound of abuse from a support which once adored him.

The Falkirk striker is once again aiming to prove the doubters wrong and return to the level which made him the most potent marksman for club and country.

But in a brutally-honest interview with MailSport , the 31-year-old insists he’s had his fill of being a hate figure and aims to relaunch his career by setting the record straight.

Griffiths said: “I hate the phrase ‘prove people wrong’. That’s all I seem to hear about Leigh Griffiths. Once Griffiths gets himself fit or once Griffiths gets this or that – there is way too much pressure being put on me.

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“For the last seven or eight years, I have lived with pressure and I have done it with pressure.

“Now I am getting older I hear people asking where is the guy who once scored 40 goals in one season?

“Where is the guy who scored two