Emotional Joe Hart cries on the pitch following Celtic’s victory over Rangers

The veteran goalkeeper gained the Scottish Cup in his ultimate game before retirement.

Special feeling: Hart was emotional after the Hampden triumph.

Celtic goalkeeper Joe Hart shed tears of pleasure after the closing whistle blew on his career in the excellent way possible.

Adam Idah’s last-minute aim was sufficient to settle a tight Scottish Gas Scottish Cup ultimate against Rangers and ship Hart into retirement with his 12th essential winners’ medal.

“I’m all drained out,” the 37-year-old said. “I simply experience completely satisfied that we won. I know it’s the cease of a profession but, honestly, my focal point was on this game. It’s so necessary to the membership to keep winning. It used to be so necessary that we gained the title and to double it up with the Scottish Cup is a distinctive feeling.

“I’m involved that some thing bad is going to manifest to me due to the fact over the final couple of weeks existence has just felt absolutely good.

“I shed a tear after that final whistle, just pure joy. Sheer happiness.”

The 75-times capped England international feels the ride of lifting the Scottish Cup in front of his family and the Celtic supporters who took him to their heart will take some time to sink in.

“At the time, you just do, you simply stay it and see the smiles on everyone’s faces,” he said.

“There’s going to be a second where I’m going to be a couple of months, perhaps a couple of years, I don’t understand when, however at some factor it’s all going to come crashing down. But, do you be aware of what? I am just going to sit returned and smile and be like ‘what a ride, I have loved each and every minute of it’.

“I’ve been fortunate that, at the same time as I have been up here, it has paid me back in methods I in no way idea you may want to be paid in football, in phrases of the love and loyalty this area has proven me, and simply let me into its heart. I will be always grateful, it will be forever phase of us as a family.”

There were no 2d thoughts from Hart after clinching the seventh most important honour of his three-year spell in Glasgow.

“It’s not an emotional decision,” the former Manchester City player said. “I made it in the past in the season due to the fact it felt like the right time for me.

“Physically, it was once never a question, it used to be just a timing aspect in terms of my three years being up here and the right time as a family. I feel relaxed with it. It’s anybody else’s flip and there’s no-one else that I want to play for on this planet different than this club. When I realised that wasn’t going to be the case in terms of having to go returned home and get on with life, from that point of view it was the proper decision.”

The sport was an extraordinarily tight affair with probabilities few and some distance between, and Hart was relieved to see referee Nick Walsh go to his VAR screen and disallow a purpose for Abdallah Sima after he was pushed by Rangers midfielder Nicolas Raskin at a corner.

“Your heart’s usually in your mouth because you don’t know,” Hart said. “It came from behind so I don’t comprehend who pushed me.

“I felt set for the cross. Obviously they had a diagram to pass on me, and as soon as I acquired ready to deal with it, anyone pushed me. I was once confident anybody pushed me, it was once just whether or not it used to be a Celtic or Rangers player.”