Three second half goals from Georgios Samaras, Koki Mizuno and Scott McDonald gave Celtic a 3-0 victory at Falkirk. Bhoys chief Gordon Strachan praised his players for focusing on the job at hand, telling Setanta Sports: "Their spirit can never be in question. They are a good bunch of lads and we do well as a group together.

"They don't have to answer to anybody, especially people who have opinions and don't know exactly what is going on.

"If you don't know what's going on, I find it very hard for people to have an opinion.

"It's very strange that everyone knows what goes on in our dressing room without actually being there."