‘We could have gone a little soft,’ Forrest hails amazing achievement

JAMES FORREST thought he’d seen it all in his time at Celtic. Certainly he has celebrated more trophy successes than the vast majority of players who have been fortunate enough to have played for our club.

But even for Jamesy, that weekend was something extra special.

“No-one has seen this before in their lifetime; it’s brilliant. Even getting the open-top bus was a first for us and that was brilliant as well.

“The timing was great, what with the skipper having his testimonial on Sunday. He was hoping it would go well at Hampden for the club but also for his day and he deserved it to turn out the way it did,” Forrest said.

The achievement is really just sicking in now. A Double Treble is completely unique in the Scottish game and to be part of it as a supporter or a player has been amazing.

“This has never been done before. We’ve had to be at the top of our game to do that for two seasons and it’s taken a lot of hard work. This is unbelievable for everyone at the club.”

And of course if you look ahead and ask yourself what do you do next after winning a Double Treble, then the target you have to set yourself is to try to do it all over again and try to make it a Treble Treble. If you got odds from the bookies today for each of the three trophies it is pretty much guaranteed that they will have Celtic in as favourites for each trophy.

“Quite a few people have mentioned that already and, when we report back for pre-season training, that’s what everyone will be wanting. We now know how difficult it is to earn that but we’ll just need to make sure that we keep working hard.

“This year winning the league was much harder for us – we drew a few games and lost a few as well, which proved that. It also shows what a great achievement this is and how high the standards we’ve set ourselves are since the manager came in. We’re all absolutely buzzing with how things have gone since then,” Jamesy continued.

“However, we want to keep kicking on. That’s what the manager said to us last year – ‘How do you better the Invincibles season?’ but I think we’ve managed to do that because we’ve made history now and that’s incredible.

“The way the gaffer is, he’ll come back again in the summer and want our standards to be raised even further. He told us that, after his first season, we could have gone a little soft after doing so well and maybe we haven’t always done as well as we could but it’s another clean sweep and that’s amazing.”

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The Celtic Star founder and editor, who has edited numerous Celtic books over the past decade or so including several from Lisbon Lions, Willie Wallace, Tommy Gemmell and Jim Craig. Earliest Celtic memories include a win over East Fife at Celtic Park and the 4-1 League Cup loss to Partick Thistle as a 6 year old. Best game? Easy 4-2, 1979 when Ten Men Won the League. Email editor@thecelticstar.co.uk

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