Colin Hendry has revealed Celtic legend Scott Brown is still playing football - in an over-35s league down south.

The former Parkhead skipper plays alongside the Scotland hero and Fleetwood assistant Steven Whittaker at a cricket ground in Lytham St Annes.

Brown, now 37, has joined a host of former pros to keep playing when he's not in the dugout.

No2 Whittaker, who is 38, is also regularly involved in the action alongside 57-year-old Scotland icon Hendry who insists he'll play "as long as he can run".

Brown and Whittaker are recent additions to the over-35s league team with the matches a regular fixture for around 10 years.

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And Hendry revealed that matches can get a bit "tetchy" because teams know who they are playing and "younger ones" thinking they can " take on the more experienced ones".

Hendry told the Off the Record podcast: “There’s a good few of us. Scotty, big Whitts, Brian O’Neill, Jamie Milligan – who was at Blackpool and Everton – and Gavin McCann, who had a great career at Aston Villa, Sunderland, Bolton and Everton.

“We love it. We’re just little boys and we can’t get enough of it. We don’t all play at the same time because we are here, there and everywhere. But it’s been going now for about 10 years at the cricket ground in Lytham St Annes.

“The teams we play against all know they’ll be up against us. There are some times when it gets a bit tetchy because the younger ones, as they do, think they can take on the more experienced ones. Which is fine, I don’t have a problem with that.

“As long as I can run, I’m OK! I can deal with everything else. But it really, really is great fun.”