A senior Ibrox employee has been accused of wholly inappropriate behaviour to Scott Brown after last Sunday’s Glasgow derby.
The Celtic skipper was substituted by Ismaila Soro midway through the second half and watched the remainder of the action from a seat in the stand behind the away dug-out.
Only club officials are allowed inside stadiums at the moment with directors, employees and a small amount of security staff on duty on match days plus working journalists.
In the seven days after the match there has been no mention of anything untoward but in today’s Daily Record Keith Jackson reveals:
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.
Sky Sports covered the match at Ibrox with post match interviews taking place pitchside and no reports of any issues involving Brown.
In March Slavia Prague made a number of claims about incidents at Ibrox following their Europa League tie against the Ibrox club, following an investigation UEFA announced:
To suspend Rangers FC player, Mr. Glen Kamara, for three (3) UEFA club competition matches for which he would otherwise be eligible to play, for assaulting another player.
