Joe Hart already has a cupboard full of winners medals and international caps to celebrate a brilliant and varied career.
Yesterday at Hampden to helped Celtic retain the League Cup and celebrated as much as he did in 2012 when Sergio Aguero scored a stoppage time winner against Queens Park Rangers.
Turning 36 in April Hart knows that these days don’t last forever, indeed his former team-mate Aguero, a year younger, was forced into retirement on health grounds.
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When it is all over life in a media studio or on the bench as a goalkeeping coach won’t bring the same adrenaline rush as yesterday’s final.
Two goals from Kyogo Furuhashi put Celtic in a commanding position but that lasted less than 10 minutes with Alfredo Morelos scrambling the ball beyond Hart. Game on.
The Celtic keeper was well protected in the last half hour, once the final whistle was blown the emotions spilled over as Hart raced over to celebrate with the Celtic fans.