Martin O’Neill’s brutal Celtic response to Rangers commentator’s controversial comments

For those who missed it, but when Celtic were celebrating trophy day in May, there were some cries coming from Rangers.

James Forrest scored a record-breaking goal as Celtic secured a point against St Mirren, and then celebrated clinching the 2024/25 Premiership title.

But over in Edinburgh, for Barry Ferguson’s final game as Rangers boss, the Premiership’s second-placed club recorded a 2-2 draw at Hibernian.

Nicolas Raskin thought he had scored for the Gers, with replays showing the ball had crossed the line, but with no goal-line technology in Scotland, VAR didn’t intervene and reverse the call.

That left Rangers fuming, including their former player John Brown, whose comments have landed him in hot water, as Celtic legend Martin O’Neill had the most brilliant of responses to it all.

John Brown’s Rangers controversy and Martin O’Neill’s Celtic response

As reported on talkSPORT, ‘Rangers have been fined £3k’ by the SFA for Brown claiming during the game against Hibernian that it was ‘corrupt’.

The former defender also stated that it was the ‘worst decision I have seen in all my years in football’, as his fellow commentator tried to play it all down and told him, ‘I am not sure we can quite actually say that.’

That controversy was discussed by O’Neill on talkSPORT, and whilst he stated that Brown was wrong to make his ‘corrupt’ claims, he mentioned how, if that goal had gone in for Rangers, then it would have only closed the 17-point gap to Celtic by a few more points.

“I would say it’s corrupt,” claimed Brown in May on Rangers’ official TV channel. Before his fellow Rangers commentator responded: “Well, I am not sure we can quite actually say that.”

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