Last season, Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou inspired his side to defeat Hibernian 2-1 in the League Cup final at Hampden with a stirring speech.

The Aussie's pre-match motivational words drew inspiration from the greatest-ever Celtic side and best-ever Scottish club team bar none - Jock Stein's Lisbon Lions - as he alluded to their famous European Cup win against Inter Milan before urging his players to go out and create and make their own history.

The then 56-year-old sent them out to do battle in the national stadium against the capital club with their chests puffed out and their heads held high. Callum McGregor duly lifted the trophy at the end of the match.

It was the first silverware of Postecoglou's Parkhead reign. He would also go on to lift the Scottish Premiership title come May.

Postecoglou will be hoping he can serve up a repeat in Sunday's Glasgow Derby League Cup final against Rangers as Celtic bid to retain the trophy.

Here, The Celtic Way has reproduced last season's spine-tingling League Cup final speech verbatim. Enjoy...

"All right boys, my message is the same here: don’t play the occasion, nothing changes.

The basic principles of our game. That’s what got us here, and that’s what’ll get us further – the things we can control. Don’t let any chaos out there derail from what we’re all about. That’s the most important thing.

"Just think about how far we've come. It hasn’t been by changing our approach. It hasn’t been from veering from what we’re good at and what we believe in most of all.

"As I’ve said to you before, whatever challenges or obstacles are thrown at us today we can get through them by sticking to our beliefs. Smash through it.

"You'll walk out there today, boys, feeling 10 feet tall – you know why? Because you’re wearing a shirt and you’re representing a club that’s achieved the greatest of achievements and you stand on the shoulders of the players who have achieved all of that before you.

"So you walk out there feeling invincible – 10 feet tall – and at the end of the game, when Cal (captain Callum McGregor) lifts up the trophy and you walk back in here, you’re going to be that little bit taller because you’ll be standing on what you created, on what you did, and you’ll have added to this football club."