It’s 12 years since Celtic last lifted the League Cup and failed to follow it up by going on to win the title in the same season.
That came under Gordon Strachan who won the Co-operative Insurance Cup as it was then known with an extra time win over Rangers only to pipped by their rivals on the last day of the league that season.
You have to go back two decades for the previous time that happened when the Hoops defeated Aberdeen in the final but finished a staggering 21 points behind the Light Blues in the league.Kenny Dalglish was in charge for that final after the Hoops as only one half of the so-called managerial dream team was left standing after the disastrous John Barnes spell was cut short.
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