'Paradise is for us'. Four words. Goosebumps aplenty.

The Celtic supporters were in raptures after the club released some fantastic footage of one of Brendan Rodgers' team talks from inside the Parkhead dressing room.

The clip previewed a new documentary coming to Celtic TV called 'Inside The Huddle' and showed the Irishman in outstanding form as he rallied his men for last season's crucial Scottish Premiership title run-in.

The documentary is a celebration of the 2023/24 double-winning season and the clip has since gone with over 373,000 hits since it was aired on Tuesday evening. The excerpt features Rodgers‘ superb team talk as his side was about to take on Hearts on May 4th in the first of the three massive home games in the Scottish Premiership title run-in. Celtic defeated the Edinburgh side 3-0 and then went on to claim the scalps of Rangers and St Mirren to clinch their third Scottish Premiership title in a row.

Rodgers tells the players: “You’ve got three games here to make this hell for the other team and we do that with our attitude and energy. If we do that, your quality will come through and this becomes a really difficult place again.

“So that’s the mentality. Paradise is for us, it should be hell now, starting today, for these last three games.”

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This was Box Office Brendan doing what he does best. He's not cocky or arrogant. He's just bloody good at what he does. Whether the camera is trained or not on Rodgers he always finds the right words to say. His rousing speech pre-Hearts match was uplifting to the point of being spiritual.

What do you expect though? Rodgers is an elite-level manager. This was the elite-level manager going to work. The 51-year-old has an aura and a presence in front of the mic. Every situation becomes a malleable one where he bends and twists it into his shape. He is adept at manipulating the media, rival players, managers and supporters alike by his clever use of a few well-spoken words. He did it numerous times last season.

Last June, he set a high bar when he swept into power at Celtic Park for a second time and declared: "For those who I need to convince I will see you here in May."

He kept good on that promise even when the doubters were lining up to have a pop.

When people doubted Celtic's title credentials and thought they were having a wobble he said: "The narrative around our team is that we’re not together and we’re broken but you can’t come and win very comfortably like that if you’re not. When you’re a winning club with a winning mentality … I think they’re trying to gang up on us now!"

He then proceeded to tell everybody who would listen after a late win over Motherwell at Fir Park in February that: "Celtic would write their own story."

They wrote their own double-winning story.

He stood in the bowels of the Ibrox press room after their city rivals had rather overzealously celebrated a 3-3 league draw in April and stared everybody down and said: "This is when Celtic comes alive."

They came alive.

A week later before they faced Dundee, Rodgers faced the media and uttered these words: "This is the period where you’ve got to get your trophy head on, and you get your focus on what it takes to become a champion. The players here are well-versed in that. They understand the mindset, and they understand the psychological traits that are needed at this stage."

They did.

In the run-up to the final Glasgow derby of the season in May, Rodgers reeled Philippe Clement and the Rangers supporters into meltdown when he spoke about 'having a bit of fun' and applying 'scoreboard pressure'.

Celtic duly had 'fun' and 'scoreboard pressure' was applied. Only last week, Rodgers was at it again when he waded into the ticket row which has now seen both sets of away fans locked out of the first two Glasgow derbies of the current campaign.

Rodgers didn't mess about as he said: "Celtic have played their part in what they were asked to do. Nothing of this was Celtic's issue, nothing. When you go back to when all this was started it's nothing to do with Celtic.

"Celtic gets dragged into this here as being a Celtic-Rangers thing. It's not a Celtic-Rangers thing, this is a Rangers thing."

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Delivered with authority. Delivered with gravitas. Delivered like a true statesman. Celtic gave Rodgers his managerial mojo back when he returned for a second stint. He is a magnificent leader and orator. This is what elite-level management entails. The devil is in the detail. Rodgers likes delving into details.

That's why the Celtic TV documentary 'Inside The Huddle' will give the supporters a wonderful peek inside the club's inner sanctum. Rodgers was right when he declared 'Paradise is for us'. It's for every member of the Celtic family. He speaks for us. He represents us and Celtic in the best possible way. It's largely why every Celtic supporter lapped up the footage.

Funnily enough, it was Rodgers who also stated whilst the club was on the tour of the USA: “Celtic is a massive club but it’s small as a family inside it. The Celtic family is like no other." Celtic currently have a manager like no other in charge of that family. His name is Brendan Rodgers. He hasn't stopped giving opponents hell with his attitude, energy and quality since his return to the managerial helm.

'Inside The Huddle'. It will be just like Rodgers when it comes out.

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