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BRENDAN RODGERS has joked Scott Brown is well on the way to having his own five-a-side team after the Celtic captain became a dad for the third time.

The Hoops manager rested Brown from the side that beat Ross County 4-0 in the Highlands on Wednesday night.

And Rodgers revealed it was because his skipper, 31, and wife Lisa were celebrating the birth of their third son on Tueday.

The Irishman said: “I gave a rest to Scotty Brown. He became a father again, for the third time, last night.

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“He is getting together his wee five-a-side football team.

“That is three boys he’s got now. He wanted to come but I said: ‘Listen, look after your wife, family is more important than football’.

“It is nice for him to get a breather. He is going to go into the game super fit and fresh and strong and now a father of three.”

Brown’s latest boy’s name has yet to be revealed but he has joined a growing family that already includes five-year-old Shay and Sonny, three.

The midfielder, who is back to his best in the Hoops, still wasn’t missed on the park in Dingwall, with Patrick Roberts, Stuart Armstrong, Scott Sinclair and Moussa Dembele on target for Celtic .