Scott Brown broke our rival’s a long time ago, so much so, they can’t get him out of their heads.
This season has not been a great one for the Celtic captain by any stretch of the imagination but throughout he’s kept his dignity. The same can’t be said for one high ranking Ibrox official this morning.
Keith Jackson on the Daily Record claims a high ranking official at the Ibrox club was wholly inappropriate to Scott Brown as he made his way back into the dressing room after the final Derby of the season.
Jackson writes:
He (Brown) almost certainly won’t enjoy all the fuss but his contribution deserves to be appropriately acknowledged and respected all the same. And – given the historic scale of his achievements – not just by Celtic’s own people but by his opponents alike.
In fact, it’s deeply regrettable that his final Old Firm match the other weekend ended with a crude and classless farewell from a high ranking Rangers official inside the Ibrox tunnel in the immediate aftermath of a 4-1 thrashing.
Record Sport understands the Parkhead hierarchy are aware of this incident which took place as a disconsolate Brown made his way back to the away dressing room while Steven Gerrard and his players celebrated a fourth derby win of a whitewash season against their crestfallen neighbours.
That they have chosen not to lodge a complaint suggests that it was all fairly low key, perhaps no more than petty stuff even if the conduct of the senior Ibrox employee – who provocatively goaded Brown as he made his way inside – was regarded as ‘wholly inappropriate behaviour’ by those who witnessed it.
It’s the type of classless gesture we’ve come to expect. Even in victory the appear to be consumed by Celtic after the last decade of dominance.
Had this been the other way around, the same club would have been shouting from the roof tops about the incident.
Scott Brown is an absolute legend at Celtic and he would have no doubt shrugged off the petty nonsense from a club who lack dignity at almost every turn.
No doubt their fans will lap this sort of thing up. For Scott, he’ll no doubt forget about the incident half way through counting all his medals.
Brown will bow out of Celtic this week after the Hoops play their final two games of the season.
Who would’ve thought what he would achieve when he first came in the door.
