AS you might expect from a man who had just won the first trophy of his football career, Brendan Rodgers allowed himself a toast on Sunday night.

Whether it was brown or white, butter or margarine, remains a mystery. But that is how the Celtic manager, ahem, celebrated hours after his team had won him the Betfred League Cup. As his players partied, he plotted, his mind already turning to what comes next.

This is Rodgers through and through. He doesn’t take time off, not really, even on an evening when letting down his hair and enjoying himself would not only have been permitted but in Glasgow absolutely encouraged.

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“I was home at 8.30pm,” said the Irishman when asked to reflect on what hell-raising he got up to at the weekend. “You guys were out longer than me. After the game I went back to the stadium. I had a drink with the directors, I spoke to the staff at the club and I was home with a cup of tea and a bit of toast, and I watched the game again.

“I was reading some of the reports and hearing that I would have been going long into the night but no I was at home at 8.30, absolutely shattered.

"I am not a big drinker I was teetotal until my early 20s, my mother and father never drank, not that that is to say there is anything wrong with celebrating with a drink. We do it in different ways. I said to the players to make sure they went away and had a couple of days and really enjoy it.

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“Some decided to go for a meal, some decided to go and have a real good time. That is absolutely fine. For me, I just want to be around people that I am close with and family and analyse the game.”

Rodgers watched the final on Monday and then again on Tuesday, looking for even the tiniest detail which will help him improve – a favourite word of his – a squad of players that are already pretty well set.

You would have been forgiven for, wrongly, thinking Sunday did not mean the world to him, you only had to watch his lip trembling when he addressed the supporters outside Celtic Park to see that, but at the time he did play down his emotions,

“Don’t get me wrong, it is great, it is absolutely brilliant. I couldn’t have been happier,” he said. “It was fantastic. But as a coach you are very quickly out of that moment. You think about the game, about how can improve, how can you be better.

"But for my family, for supporters it was amazing. Incredible, great for them and the historical nature of it too being the 100th trophy. For my staff and what it meant to them. When you are in command it is a different feel because you are looking to the next one.”

Does he ever turn off? The answer to that is a big no.

"Most managers are the same, I’m not unique,” said Rodgers. “I tried to make management my profession. I never had the good fortune of being a big player. I had to study, learn and analyse the game as a young player, and that’s what I do to this day.

“The staff set the standard. We come in early, we go home late, we constantly analyse what we can do better. I’ve always looked at how to improve players and the team. This is my profession. I’m not rushing out of here to get nine holes in on the golf course. This is our life and you need to devote yourself to it.”

Rodgers isn’t a robot. However, he’s no Martin O’Neill in the sense he is far more reserved. But this all means everything to him. The evidence of that came when he choked up during his address to the troops.

“I had a flashback of something that was important to me,” he admitted. “It was a nice feeling. It was a great day for everyone and then just to thank the supporters. I was wishing there were people there in my life who aren’t here anymore so you get a wee sudden flash of something.”

There are going to be plenty more opportunities for him to have a good greet. Even the Celtic players are talking about a treble and going through a season unbeaten, and such boasts are not a huge problem for the manager.

"You should always retain humility in how you work,” he said. “They're obviously on the back end of doing well and confident. But I'll always keep a lid on that for them. There is always something just around the corner that you've got to be ready for.

"But, look, it's nice. I want my team to play with a football arrogance. Off the field it's all about humility, but I have that. I don't think there is any arrogance in what's been said. I want them to have a football arrogance."

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But that’s not to say Rodgers believes his side can go undefeated.

He said: “Listen, if you could tell me that every player would stay fit, that we wouldn't have any injuries and that the pitches would remain first class then....

"But there are so many variables. It's not about the players' lack of ability.

"It's just that so many different things could happen. We could be up against a goalkeeper like the one we faced in Inverness, who has an unbelievable game and we just don't get the rub of the green.

"We could get a man sent off or something else could happen. But if everything stayed the same then we may have a chance. But at some point we'll lose."