Celtic manager Neil Lennon has praised skipper Scott Brown for tackling a”dreadful” situation out Ibrox.
Brown was taunted over the passing of the sister Fiona, who died from skin cancer in 2008, while touring the team bus after the 2-0 win over Rangers earlier this season of Celtic.
A boy has been charged in connection.
A lifetime prohibit was issued by rangers and apologised.
Lennon said:”I’ve had a short chat with him and that I think he handled the situation quite well.
“It’s incredibly hard [not to respond ]. I don’t know what I would have done. I’m old now and Scott is mature. Five or six years ago it could have been a different outcome.
“I am not certain what lad was trying to prove or exactly what his thought process was, when he had one at all. It is disgusting.
“I think that it’s awful, horrible. To consider that, let alone mention it, is dreadful.
“I applaud Rangers for the speedy action they took and also the service a lot of the fans have contributed to Scott but it’s got to stop. There is no call for it.
“We are speaking not just here, but in Britain today there seems to be this uprising at a great deal of racism back again. It’s rearing its ugly head.
“We have a sectarian problem here, we know that.
“Ninety five per cent of fans are extremely good and, like Scott said, he doesn’t mind during the game, but if we’re out and about on the roads attempting to live our lives, we aren’t in a football ground. They have no right to insult or abuse individuals in that fashion.”
Brown pinpointed social networking as a platform that has allowed intense comments also Lennon agreed.
“It occasionally makes young ones believe that it’s all correct,” he explained. “It’s not.
“We have people in authority and players of the highest calibre asking social networking networks to clamp down on it. It must stop.
“There’s no liability or responsibility for these individuals to put out on a public forum they want to convey. We are living in a democracy but a line has to be drawn somewhere because it is contrary to the law.
“These programs allow this illegality to happen.”
Lennon himself arrived off Twitter affected him.
“I got off it,” he said. “It ended too much of the time, two, it played my mind a bit occasionally and, three, it may be quite upsetting as well.
“We’re decent human beings believe it or not, the majority people, but we’re portrayed to be something different by men and women who do not know .
“There is a lot of great things come out of social media also. Even the lads do a lot of charity work or market charities but this underbelly leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth and can be quite upsetting for people.”
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