THE SCOTTISH SUN 🔵 Celtic hero takes club to face Hoops youths and beats team including his own son

FOOTBALLING prowess runs in the Mulgrew family.

But Charlie and his teenage son Joshua found themselves on different sides of the divide yesterday when Hamilton took on the Hoops in a Club Academy Scotland Elite Under-18s league clash.

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Former Hoops and Scotland standout Charlie is making his way as a coach these days after retiring from the sport last summer.

He accepted a post as Hamilton Accies’ Under-18s coach this season – after being linked with a similar role at Celtic.

That’s after his 16-year-old son Joshua was one of a number of players to pen their first pro contracts with his former club in June.

Two-time Celt Charlie – who also had spells with Aberdeen, Wolves, Blackburn and Dundee United – is proud of his son’s achievements, re-sharing the traditional contract signing pics on Instagram back in June with the words: « Proud of you Joshua Mulgrew ».

But a clash between the pair was always in the pipeline and it duly came to pass yesterday at Lennoxtown.

And a 14th minute own goal saw the Accies win the day by a 1-0 scoreline.

The Accies have a good reputation for youth development, being crowned Scottish champions at this level 12 months ago.

Teenage defender Aaron Eadie this week becoming their youngest EVER first team player in a 4-0 win over Dundee Utd B in the SPFL Trust trophy.

Mulgrew Jnr was born in the final few months of his dad’s time at Wolves – and on-loan at Southend United.

Dad Charlie last week relived the episode where bra tycoon Michelle Mone took him to task for what she said was child neglect as Joshua slept in the car in the Costco car park.

Speaking on the latest edition of the Let’s Be Frank podcast with Hoops hero Frank McAvennie and host Simon Houston, he said: “It was mad. It was a week before Christmas, we drove to Costco.

“The backstory – my wife had my son, who’s now, funny enough, full time at Celtic.

« He’s just went full time in the summer there. She’d been out with him during the day, he was tired, we had people coming to us for Christmas.

“We went to Costco and as we arrived, he fell asleep in the car.

“So I was like, ‘Do we take him in here?’

“I just ended up running in and out. »

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