Celtic director Neil Lennon has commended skipper Scott Brown for tackling a”horrendous” situation outside Ibrox.
Brown was taunted on the death of his sister Fiona, who died from skin cancer in 2008 following Celtic win over Rangers earlier this season.
A 15-year-old boy was charged in connection.
Rangers issued a life ban and apologised to Brown, who stopped in his tracks when he heard the comment but did not respond.
Lennon said:”I have had a short chat with him about it and I think he handled the problem quite well.
“It’s unbelievably hard [not to respond ]. I really don’t know what I’d have done. I am older now and Scott is much more mature. Five or six decades ago it might have been a different result.
“I am not sure what that lad was trying to establish or exactly what his thought process was, if he had one at all. It is disgusting.
“I think that it’s awful, horrendous. To even consider that, let alone state it, is horrendous.
“I applaud Rangers for the speedy action they took and the service lots of their fans have given to Scott but it’s got to stop. There’s no call for it.
“We are speaking not just here, at Britain today there seems to be this uprising in a great deal of racism back again. It’s rearing its ugly head.
“We have a sectarian problem here, we all know that.
“Ninety five per cent of fans are extremely great and, like Scott said, he doesn’t head during the match, but once we’re out and about on the streets attempting to live our lives, we are not at a football ground. They’ve no right to abuse or insult folks in that fashion.”
Brown pinpointed social networking as a platform which has allowed intense remarks also Lennon agreed.
“It sometimes makes young people think that it’s all right,” he explained. “It is not.
“Again we have men and women in authority and players of the highest calibre asking social networking networks to clamp down on it. It has to stop.
“There’s no liability or responsibility for these people to put out to a public forum they would like to convey. We live in a democracy but a line has to be drawn somewhere since it is against the law.
“These programs enable this illegality to take place.”
Lennon after locating the negativity, himself came off Twitter affected him.
“I got off it,” he explained. “One, it took up a great deal of my time, two, it played with my head a bit occasionally and, three, it might be quite upsetting too.
“We are decent human beings feel it or not, the majority of us, but we are supposed to be something else by men and women who don’t know .
“There is a lot of good things come out of social media also. Even the lads do a whole lot of charity work or market charities but this underbelly leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth and may be very upsetting for people.”
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