Craig Gordon is trying to live in the moment with Celtic immortality perhaps just a day away – Glasgow Evening Times

CRAIG GORDON speaks about staying in the moment which must be pretty difficult when only days from possible immortality.

Make no mistake, should this Celtic team, on the 50th anniversary of the clubs greatest achievement, win a treble without losing a single game, the names of the players will never be forgotten.

They wont be up there with the Lions including the years before and after 1967 but this group will be put on the same pedestal as the beloved centenary double winning team and Martin ONeills great side which made the clean sweep in 2001.

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History beckons for Gordon and his team-mates. Just one final push against an Aberdeen team they have already beaten five times this season, including once at Hampden, and all their dreams will come true.

Asked about becoming invincible, which remains a strange question, Celtics goalkeeper said: You never think you are going to do that in a career at any level in any league.

The opportunity we have to go and do that now is enormous and its something that would be remembered for a very long time. But at the same time we have to concentrate on this game.

If we start looking beyond that at records and things that could be said in the future about this team, it wont matter if dont win the game. We cant think too far ahead. We have to stay in the moment and if we prepare as we have been for every game well do alright when the game comes around.

If we didnt win the final it would take a bit of getting over, but thats football and these things can happen. But we have an incredible opportunity to make sure thats not the case.

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Players will make mistakes, but we have to continue to pull for each other and make sure we come out on top. Weve come back from situations and gone on to win games and that had just grown from the start of the season.

Every challenge we have been set we have come back from and when you start doing that you start to feel every situation is possible no matter what happens in a game.

"Nobody panics regardless of the situation, everybody stays calm. We do what we have to do to make sure if we are winning games. It doesn't matter if somebody has to come off, or we need to change the shape, or whatever it is, that is what needs to be done, everyone sticks together. We have done that really well this season.

Nobody knows for sure, apart from Gordon himself, how close he came to joining Chelsea in January which would have meant him missing all this.

His heads was turned and who could blame him. The English champions tend to pay their employees pretty well and so it was an inviting offer despite everything he had at Celtic Park.

In the end he stayed, won a new contract, and after what we all know was a sticky start to the season, Gordon has gone on to enjoy another fine campaign.

He said: Whats done is done and you move on and play away. Chelsea picked up the league trophy, but the chances are that I might not have played very many games in terms of achieving of that.

I walked out at Celtic Park to the show of the Lisbon Lions, and basically the show of that whole day, and lifting the trophy, was phenomenal, brilliant.

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"There would have been positives no matter what. I'm quite happy with whatever would have happened. But that was a good day and hopefully there are more to come.

Gordon won the Scottish Cup as a Hearts player in 2006 when they were almost as heavy favourites as Celtic will be on Saturday when they took on tiny Gretna who had defied all odds to reach Hampden.

That Hearts side split the Old Firm, were full of good players, but were to find out that winning major silverware is not so easy.

Gordon recalled: It was a great day, although it took us slightly longer to win the cup than we would have liked. It was a difficult game.

"It had been a long, hard season for us at Hearts. We had a lot of changes, different managers but we still managed to split the Old Firm at the top of the league with not a very big squad.

By the time we got to the cup final, we were kind of running on empty to try and get over the line. It took us penalty kicks to finally do it.

We went into with confidence. We had just got into the Champions League qualifiers by finishing second in the league. So I dont think we felt under more pressure.

There was certainly a bit of tiredness there at the end of the season but I dont think there was any over-confidence. It was a very warm day and we struggled to play the way we had been playing, with real intensity and pressing.

Its hard to envisage Celtic encountering the same problems come Saturday afternoon.

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