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Mark McDougall

Watch Neil Lennon's Celtic press conference in full as Hoops boss warns stars to 'ignore the noise'

Neil Lennon has told Celtic players to ignore the noise of a potential treble Treble and focus on the game.

The Hoops boss was speaking to the media ahead of Saturday's game and wasn't willing to look past the showpiece event.

Celtic are going into the game knowing a win would be a history-making moment and a bus parade has been scheduled for after the game, should his side win the trophy.

But Lennon wants his team to ignore all of that and just focus on the 90 minutes of the game.

He said: "Hearts are a very difficult obstacle for us to overcome so there's no point me sitting here telling you how I'm going to feel when we win the cup.

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"That will hopefully all come at half past five on Saturday.

"In the meantime, I'm just wary of everyone talking about treble trebles and bus parades.

"We've got to play the game and not the occasion. That's the message we'll be hammering into the players over the next two days.

"I've played the occasion and not the game when I was younger at Crewe in a play-off final at Wembley. The game passed me by completely because I got embroiled in all the build-up and the hype. It was a lesson learned.

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Watch the full press conference in our player above.

"We have a very motivated team and for some of their players it will be their first cup final. They may never get the opportunity to win it again so they will be very hungry too."
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