The 11 Celtic changes Brendan Rodgers could make from Champions League record breakers and STILL field £30m XI

Callum McGregor might consider letting Liam Scales deliver the pre-match Huddle Homily for this Sunday.

Scales, the unsung hero who won fans’ acclaim with his display in Europe in midweek, once knew the ignominy of being on the wrong side of the worst defeat in the 150-year history of the Scottish Cup. The Irishman was part of the Aberdeen team that lost to Darvel in Ayrshire 18 months ago.

After the bravado shown against Bratislava, you might think there’d be little fascination as Celtic face Falkirk. From the Champions League to the Premier Sports Cup? From high altitude to low interest? From disco lights to broad daylight? But Brendan Rodgers can’t tolerate that attitude. Not after verbalising last weekend that there are no lines of demarcation between European and domestic competition and highlighting the responsibility owed by the team to the supporters.

Celtic fans have long wanted the club to be taken to the next level. When the BBC showed Celtic’s systematic dismantling of Slovan Bratislava to the nation ahead of Manchester City’s game with Inter Milan, on the basis it was a better watch, the club knew it had arrived at its destination.

Rodgers knows, though, that doesn’t allow his players to believe there are other competitions too parochial to be of any concern to them. “We can never, ever forget ... the bread and butter,” he said after the league defeat of Hearts. “It’s so important. It’s the lives of so many supporters, especially in Glasgow. We can never discount that.”

The next level means you are charged with the responsibility of being successful at home and abroad. Falkirk stand between Celtic and the potential winning of the first trophy that goes towards a domestic Treble. When Celtic chairman Peter