FORMER Celtic and St Mirren midfielder Paul Lambert believes that the Paisley side will make sure the Parkhead club know they have been in a game tomorrow afternoon.

Having walloped Gus MacPherson's side 7-0 in the SPL last weekend, Gordon Strachan's side are expected to sweep St Mirren aside with ease in the Homecoming Scottish Cup quarter-final.

Lambert, though, who served both sides with some distinction, expects that MacPherson's team will have an axe to grind when the come up against the Hoops, particularly since the game comes so close on the heels of their humiliation last weekend.

"You go into it with an added determination in that situation," he said.

"If you are going to get beaten, then you make sure the other team know they have been in a game.

"I'm sure the St Mirren lads will do that.

"Celtic will know they are expected to win, but St Mirren will do their utmost to make sure nothing like last week ever happens again."

Lambert's medal collection boasts three Scottish Cup winner's medals and two runners- up gongs.

The midfielder won the trophy twice with Celtic and once as a 17-year-old with St Mirren but it is the success he enjoyed as a teenager that passed him by.

"It still felt like a boys' club game," he said.

"Looking back, I can't believe I am saying that.

"It's not until you get older that you realise what it fully entails. When you play for Celtic, you have to win it. At St Mirren, no-one expected us to do it against Dundee United but it was fantastic for the club and the town.

"I get asked a lot what it was like to win the cup at that age, but, to be honest, I don't remember much about it. I just played without a fear.

"Have I watched it on video? No, Betamax tapes are gone now! I have never sat and watched it.

"I suppose some people might find that amazing, but I have only seen pictures of the game here and there."

The actual medal itself from that 1987 Scottish Cup Final triumph has survived, although Lambert is not one to brag about his achievements in the game.

"There was a fire at my mum and dad's house at Linwood many years back," he said.

"All my boys' club medals were wiped out but the actual Scottish Cup medal survived.

"But I never really look at my medals and I don't have them on display or anything. It's all just memories."