WHAT THE PLAYERS AND STAFF SAID
CHAIRMAN DOUGLAS PARK
“Absolutely unbelievable. We’ve achieved 55, we’ve won the league.
“I couldn’t be more happy for the club, the supporters and everyone.
“It’s been a hard, hard road getting there, but we’ve got there and obviously we want this to be the start of many.
“Steven Gerrard has done a magnificent job.
“He’s brought standards back to the club – standards inside the club, standards outside the club.
“Every thanks I’ve got goes to him for the job he’s done, and the players.”
CONNOR GOLDSON
“Emotional, happy, I don’t really know what to say.
“Since I’ve been here it has been three years of hard work and to this point it is probably the best time of my career.
“The new boys who are here don’t understand the pain that we have been through over the past three years, James Tavernier the past four or five years.
“It has been painful, cups, leagues everything. It has been horrible.
“The focus for this season we called it the last dance and it has lived up to it.
“I would nothing more than to be at Ibrox with all our fans out celebrating with them.”
JOE ARIBO
“It is an amazing feeling. The boys are buzzing and it still doesn’t actually feel real.
“It feels crazy. I am just ecstatic that we were able to do it.
“My aim was to come here and win trophies, titles and that is what we’ve done.
“I’ve achieved what I wanted to achieve but there’s obviously more to come.”
GLEN KAMARA
“It is a surreal moment. I don’t even know how to feel right now. We are all excited and we are all buzzing.
“Hopefully there will be many more to come. We are all looking forward to the Champions League.
“Everyone is just trying to live the moment right now. We will just enjoy the day and go from there.”
JAMES TAVERNIER
“I’ve experienced such a roller coaster since I first came here.
“To do it this year, with everything surrounding this season, it’s monumental to not just the boys that have contributed, to the fans as well.
“Because they’ve been with us from day one. As for them and everyone who’s been involved, this is a terrific day for the club.
“And I hope everyone just enjoys it and soaks it in.”
MANAGING DIRECTOR STEWART ROBERTSON
“The ups and downs we’ve endured over the last six years have been something else.
“We always had a plan, we always knew where we wanted to get and how we thought we could get there.
“A few twists and turns but days like today make it all worthwhile.
“You can see the progress we’ve made. The key thing now is not to stop, we need to keep progressing.
“Actually this is just a staging post for pushing on further.”
JERMAIN DEFOE
“I have dedicated my whole career and my whole life for these kinds of moments.
“I always knew it would happen at some point in my career and that is the thing that has kept me going to be honest.
“People always say what has kept you going and how do you stay motivated and it is for moments like this.
“Especially with this group of players, the staff, everyone that has been involved, the people in the kitchen, the girls that do the admin - it has been a team effort. This is why you play football, for moments like this.
“You will never forget these moments and it is so special when you share a dressing room with these kinds of people. The manager said it probably won't sink in yet but when it does it will be unbelievable.”
MICHAEL BEALE
“It is hard at the moment because everyone is so emotional and so happy.
“We were aware when we came to the club that there was a lot of people who had been hurting.
“A lot of people for a number of years had seen things happen to their club that didn’t deserve to happen, and we have come back and done it.
“It is amazing to be here but I realise we are the lucky ones. We are inside the club.
“We have only been here for three years but for the fans and everyone here I really hope they celebrate it. It is a wonderful achievement.
“We want to play with style. We want to entertain, and I think our players have done that this year.
“To a man in that dressing room there have been some fantastic performances.
“I am so proud of them. As staff we are at them every single day and they have delivered.
“They can go on to achieve whatever they want now so let us kick on.
“There is still so much more to be achieved. Ally McCoist started the rise of the club and today I think of people like him.
“They are the people that make our club what it is and well done to everyone that has been a part of it. Let's really celebrate this then go for more.”
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