Scott McDonald believes that Scott Brown has been charged by the SFA due to media pressure.
The Celtic striker has been blamed for everything over the course of the last few days despite the best efforts of Sky Sports and BBC Scotland to come up with video evidence to accuse Brown with.
Media outlets have been trawling through grainy fan videos on social media to try and come up with something on Brown while ignoring the gestures made to Celtic fans by Joe Worrall and Ryan Kent after the equalising goal in the Glasgow derby.
McDonald is a regular on BBC Scotland and BT Sport and appreciates the pressures that players are under.
Brown’s real crimes amount to smiling, laughing and celebrating but according to the SFA he now has to answer a charge of not acting in the best interests of Scottish football.
McDonald discussed the fall out from Sunday’s derby match with The Sun reporting:
“This charge sets a dangerous precedent – really dangerous.
“I feel this is media pressure because it’s been documented across Britain what happened.
“People disagree with what Scott did and it’s been everywhere. All of a sudden they are looking at it going, ‘We are sitting on our hands on this one – we need to look at this and do something’.”
Celtic have promised to contest the charge vigorously.
