Celtic manager Neil Lennon has praised skipper Scott Brown for tackling a”dreadful” situation outside Ibrox.
Brown was taunted on the death of his sister Fiona, who died in 2008 after Celtic win over Rangers earlier this month.
A 15-year-old boy has been charged in relation to the event, which was captured on video.
Rangers apologised to Brown, who stopped in his tracks when he heard the comment but didn’t respond and issued a life prohibit.
Lennon said:”I have had a short chat with him about it and I really think he handled the problem very well.
“It is incredibly hard [to not respond ]. I really don’t understand what I’d have done. I am old now and Scott is much more mature. Perhaps five or six years ago it could have been a different outcome.
“I am not sure what that lad was trying to establish or what his thought process was, if he had one at all. It is disgusting.
“I think that it’s awful, horrendous. To consider that mention it, is horrendous.
“I applaud Rangers to the speedy action they took and also the support a lot of the fans have contributed to Scott but it’s got to stop. There’s no call for it.
“We’re speaking not just here, but in Britain today there appears to be this uprising in a great deal of racism back again. It’s rearing its ugly head.
“We’ve got a philosophical difficulty here, we know that.
“Ninety five percent of supporters are extremely good and, like Scott said, he doesn’t mind during the game, but once we are out and about around the streets hoping to live our own lives, we aren’t at a football ground. They’ve no right to abuse or insult people in that fashion.”
Brown pinpointed networking as a stage that has allowed intense comments and Lennon agreed.
“It sometimes makes young ones think that it’s all right,” he said. “It’s not.
“Again we have men and women in players and authority of the highest calibre requesting social networking 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 what they wish to convey. We are living in a democracy but since it’s contrary to the law a line has to be drawn somewhere.
“These programs enable this illegality to happen.”
Lennon after locating the negativity himself came off Twitter influenced him.
“I got off it,” he explained. “It took up a lot of my time, it performed my mind a bit occasionally and, three, it might be quite upsetting too.
“We’re decent human beings believe it or notthe majority people, but we’re supposed to be something else by men and women who do not know .
“There’s a good deal of great things come out of social websites too. Even the lads do a good deal of charity work or promote charities but that this underbelly leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth also can be very upsetting for individuals.”
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