Celtic manager Neil Lennon has commended skipper Scott Brown for tackling a”horrendous” situation out Ibrox.
Brown was taunted on the death of the sister Fiona, who died from skin cancer after Celtic’s 2-0 win over Rangers earlier this month, while boarding the team bus in 2008.
A boy was charged in connection with the event, which has been captured on video.
Rangers issued a lifetime prohibit and apologised.
Lennon said:”I’ve had a short chat with him and I guess he handled the problem quite well.
“It is incredibly hard [to not respond ]. I really don’t know what I’d have done. I’m old and Scott is mature. Five or six years back it might have been another result.
“I’m not certain what that lad was trying to establish or exactly what his thought process was, even when he had one at all. It is disgusting.
“I think that it’s awful, horrible. To consider that mention it, is dreadful.
“I applaud Rangers for the speedy action they took and also the support a lot of the fans have given to Scott but it’s got to stop. There’s no call for that.
“We’re talking not just here, at Britain today there appears to be this uprising at a lot of racism back again. It is rearing its ugly head.
“We’ve got a philosophical difficulty here, we know that.
“Ninety five per cent of supporters are extremely great also, like Scott said, he doesn’t head during the match, but if we are out and about on the streets hoping to live our lives, we are not at a football ground. They have no right to abuse or insult folks in that fashion.”
Brown pinpointed media as a stage which has allowed comments that were extreme and Lennon agreed.
“It sometimes makes young ones think that it’s all correct,” he explained. “It is not.
“We have people in authority and players of the highest calibre asking social media networks to clamp it down. It has to stop.
“There’s no accountability or responsibility for those individuals to put out to a public forum they would like to convey. We are living in a democracy but since it’s against the law a line has to be drawn.
“These platforms let this illegality to happen.”
Lennon after locating the negativity himself arrived off Twitter influenced him.
“I got it off,” he said. “One, it took up a great deal of my time, it performed with my head a bit sometimes and, three, it could be quite upsetting too.
“We’re decent human beings feel it or not, the majority people, but we’re thought to be something different by men and women who do not know us.
“There is a lot of good things come from social websites too. The lads do a great deal of charity work or encourage charities but this underbelly leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth also can be very upsetting for people.”
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