CELTIC captain Scott Brown has hit out at any suggestion players actions have a bearing on any violence that goes on after a match.
Brown has slammed the suggestion anything a footballer does on the field in the heat of the battle should be used for an excuse to take ‘liberites’ outside the ground after the match has ended.
The midfielder also blasts any fan who tries to get onto the field of play to harm a professional footballer – something which has happened to him at Ibrox before. Brown had to hold off a rotund Gers fan after the slow-moving moron managed to evade stewards and police to enter the Ibrox pitch.
It’s simple for the Celtic captain, you can’t use football as an excuse for violence and admits he lives away from Glasgow to avoid any unwanted attention.
“Football has to remain in the stadium, it can’t be taken outside. The violence after games has to stop as well.” Brown told RecordSport.
“So you should run out and punch somebody outside the stadium? That’s just people taking liberties.
“There is no excuse for fans running on the park trying to punch someone – and that happened to me as well – or people taking liberties after players win games and enjoy themselves. It’s a football game.
“It’s a job for me. It’s my job to win big games, that’s why I came to Celtic.
