Nicola Sturgeon has defended her reaction to the events at Hampden on Saturday but failed to comment on anti-catholic hate songs or the naming of BBC employees in the confrontational rant issued from Ibrox on Sunday night.
The scatter-gun statement pointed the finger of blame at the First Minister claiming that she represented the mystical ‘parish of Govan’ with the SNP leader responding to the attack.
Rather than criticise the overall tone of the irresponsible statement which claimed that Sevco fans were on the pitch to defend their players, Sturgeon elected to absolve herself from the Ibrox blame game.
Defending her tweet congratulating Hibs victory the Scottish First Minister said: “I do condemn the pitch invasion, I do condemn any acts of violence or disorder at any sporting occasion.
“There is no place for violence and no place for it in football. It is for the police and SFA to look at any wider lessons to be learned. We need to let them do their job — letting matters take their course at this stage would be the sensible thing to do.”
Incredibly having been drawn into responding to the nameless Ibrox statement Sturgeon failed to highlight the club’s defence of the violent louts who took to the pitch on Saturday.
The Ibrox statement explained: “We acknowledge that a tiny minority of Rangers fans also encroached on the pitch but only after having been faced with prolonged and severe provocation and in order to protect our players and officials who were being visibly attacked in front of them. Any club’s supporters would have done the same.”