DEVASTATED Callum McGregor says that all he can think about is how the Celtic players have blown the chance to make history by allowing a tenth consecutive title to slip from their grasp.

Celtic’s vice-captain took the armband as the champions deservedly went down to St Mirren, and he couldn’t hide how much this latest defeat had hurt him as he tried to fathom just what went wrong in the aftermath of the match.

And he said that the spectre of Celtic’s failure to mount a challenge for the league this season is haunting his thoughts.

“It’s hugely disappointing, it’s all you think about,” McGregor said.

“You’re here to win, and when that’s been instilled in you from such a young age, when you don’t win it’s so hard to take.

“We keep trying to find the reasons why, and keep trying to fix it. Sometimes it just doesn’t click.

“It hurts, but the only way to come out of that a better player and a better person is to keep working to turn it around and being positive.

“I think we know [the chance to win 10-in-a-row]’s there. Coming into the season there was a big push in the media and you can look at it two ways.

“With the full stadium that is obviously going to help you in terms of pushing, but if things aren’t going well, then the full stadiums can be of detriment as well.”

McGregor agreed with his manager Neil Lennon’s assessment that the players have let the club down.

“I think we all have to take a collective responsibility,” he said. “The players have said that, when we cross the line the manager can’t play for us, so we have to symbolise what he’s all about on the pitch.

“The manager tries to get his ideas across and the players are paid to implement that, and for one reason or another we haven’t this season.

“Everyone has to take that collective responsibility and the players haven’t performed as well as we can.”