The captain’s able. “There’s a lot more in my tank yet so I’m not going down yet and I’ll see how many more trophies I can get,” said a jubilant Scott Brown after picking up his 16th trophy with Celtic as the Glasgow club eased to victory over Motherwell in the William Hill Scottish Cup final.

With an historic double treble now scribbled into the record books, Brown, who still has a few more prizes to capture to emulate the the haul of 22 domestic titles the great Billy McNeil hoisted aloft as a captain, will join the pantheon of decorated Celtic skippers and the 32-year-old is not about to rest on the laurels.

“I fancy two or three seasons easily, four is a big push but I’ll keep going,” he added. “A double treble? I don't think anyone would have had that on the cards when the manager first came in. But it just shows you where hard work can get you."

“We have made the Champions League [group stages] for the last two years, and we have got to do that again next year. We start again. We’ve been creating lots of history with this team and under this manager and we aim to create a lot more.”

Celtic’s conquest was aided by Callum McGregor’s sizzling strike in the 11th minute which gave the Scottish champions an early lead and the 24-year-old was well aware of the significance of his effort. “That's probably the best (goal I've scored) in terms of the magnitude of the game and what was at stake,” he said. “I knew it was going in as soon as I made contact with the ball. I felt it straight away.

You hear that word ‘legends’ and you hear all about the Lisbon Lions. People are still talking about how great an achievement that was. For guys like Kieran Tierney and myself, to grow up watching Celtic and to be part of that and be in that bracket is something really special. It will probably not sink in for a couple of weeks.”

In the deflated Motherwell camp, meanwhile, Chris Cadden conceded that the Fir Park men had given Celtic too much respect and, despite a good old fashioned “rocket” from the manager at half-time, they were left with too much of a mountain to climb in the second period.

“I thought we lost the game in the first half,” he said after Motherwell were floored by a double whammy of goals in the opening 25 minutes. “We showed them too much respect. But that’s not really our game, showing people respect. We’ve got to get into people’s faces and we didn’t do that. We did it more in the second half, but by then it was too late.

“I don’t know why we started like that. It wasn’t nerves because we’ve been here before and we know what it’s about. “He (the manager) gave us a rocket. He said ‘there are 45 minutes left of the season, you’ve got to go and leave it all on the pitch, no regrets. He told us if we end up losing, then we get lose, but run your socks off and see what happens.”