Wednesday 31 May 2017 17:46, UK
Celtic's players started dreaming of their unbeaten run at their Dubai training camp in January, Craig Gordon has revealed.
The rampant Hoops completed the clean sweep with Saturday's Scottish Cup 2-1 win over Aberdeen racking up a 47th domestic game without defeat this campaign.
Celtic became the first Scottish side to pass an entire top-flight season without loss since Rangers won all 18 of their old First Division fixtures back in 1898/99.
Goalkeeper Gordon said: "We wanted to win everything that we could but to do it undefeated was probably beyond anyone's expectations.
"But I remember when we got to the halfway point and went out to our winter training camp in Dubai that everyone was thinking, 'This is on, we can do this'.
"We came back from there and stepped it up a level from where we were in the first part of the season. We kept improving as we went along.
"It's an absolutely incredible achievement. I'm a bit older than the rest and I know that it's probably not going to get done again, not for a very long time anyway.
"We have to enjoy it for what it is. It was an amazing season and I don't think we could have asked for much more."
The Hoops were given their toughest examination of the campaign by the Dons at Hampden, but they responded to Jonny Hayes' early opener with Stuart Armstrong's leveller before Tom Rogic made history with his late winner.
Gordon feels his team gave a display of a steeliness they have seldom had to rely on this term as they completed the club's first treble since 2001.
He added: "Of course there was pressure on us to wrap up the treble. I think you saw that early in Saturday's game.
"We started a little bit slow which we haven't been doing, especially recently. It took us a little bit of time to play ourselves into the game. We went behind but had to show what we were made of.
"We've not had to do that too often but when we have had to, everyone stays calm as we know what we have to do to get back into the game.
"We got a quick reply from Stuart which really settled us down and we've then ground it out in the end."
