He has also become an integral part of Alex McLeish's Scotland set-up, after making his debut the previous year.

Ahead of the Ladbrokes Premiership clash with the Light Blues, where a win would take Celtic six points clear of their Old Firm rivals with a game in hand, Christie was asked what it would mean to him to sign off the year with a victory.

"It would be amazing," said the former Inverness player, who signed for Celtic in 2015.

"It will be my first taste of Ibrox in a Celtic shirt if I'm lucky enough to play.

"I'm looking forward to that. I'm pretty sure it will be a hostile environment.

"It's something I have been used to in all different grounds with Celtic so yeah, it would be pretty special.

"At the start of December we wanted to come out of it top of the league and hopefully starting to pull away from teams because obviously we want to be top from now until the end of the season.

"It's obviously a huge game at the weekend but if we come out of it with a win, it would show how well we have done this month."

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