Football - Celtic v Dunfermline Athletic - CIS Insurance Cup Final - Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland - 19/3/06 Celtic's players pay tribute to Jimmy Johnstone during today's CIS Insurance Cup Final Mandatory Credit: Action Images / Lee Smith Livepic
Picking out five League Cup Final highlights of this millennium is much harder to pinpoint than five miseries.
This trophy has rarely been a friend of Celtic’s although there has been some spectacular highs such as 1957 and the record breaking run between 1965 and 1969 when the trophy sat alongside the League Championship trophy inside Celtic Park.
In contrast to the Scottish Cup where the club has excelled the League Cup has been something of a nightmare with Hampden defeats to Kilmarnock, St Mirren and Ross County still fresh and raw in the memory.
Previewing Sunday’s match Brendan Rodgers was keen to draw a line between those results and taking his side to Hampden on Sunday.
With wins over Aberdeen at home and away already this season the hoops are strong favourites to succeed and add to their five League Cup successes of this millennium
