Vile troll calls for Celtic player and his wife to be ‘hanged’ after he was sent off during the 1-0 loss to Rangers on Saturday.
Nir Bitton’s wife has been sent a series of disgusting abusive messages following the footballer’s sending off during Saturday’s tense Old Firm clash.
The 29-year-old was shown a straight red after he was judged to have denied a goalscoring opportunity when he brought down Rangers’ Alfredo Morelos in the 62nd minute of the crunch Premiership tie.
While Celtic fans aired their frustrations at the club’s 1-0 loss over social media, vile trolls sent the footballer’s partner abuse over Instagram.
Bar Bitton told followers that she received “many” awful messages following the match.
She shared a screen grab of one message, which called for Bar and her husband to be ‘hanged’, while adding further abuse to the married couple’s two children.
The message read: “Here you ya cow, you and yer husband deserve tae be hung on the streets.
“F**k you and yer wains.”
After the match, Lennon said: “I thought we were outstanding before the red card that changed the course of a game we controlled.
“We’ve been done by a pretty poor refereeing decision.”
Celtic players also received a torrent of sectarian abuse as they entered Ibrox stadium.
Hoops players arrived in the south side of the city of Glasgow for Saturday’s crunch meeting with their rivals, before losing 1-0 with a Callum McGregor own goal.
Celtic footballers were met with disgusting abuse from a small number of Rangers fans as they walked through the doors of Ibrox stadium.
Thats grown men aswell.. fucking hell😂😂 pic.twitter.com/R3MeLEFY5q
— Celtic Spares (@SparesCeltic) January 2, 2021
As one player walked along Edmiston Drive with a police escort, a group of yobs could be heard shouting “gunge that paedo” and “f***ing paedo c***” as well as “pape c***”.
Video footage has gone viral with the caption “fenian c***” before the next clip captured Celtic players walking off the team bus.
The same group can be heard shouting “fenian b******s” .
Rangers move a colossal 19 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership table although second-placed Celtic still have three games in hand.
The hosts will feel angry however at see Rangers fans taunt Celtic players before the game, especially as they break the lockdown rules.
A moment of madness from the red-carded Nir Bitton was quickly followed by a Callum McGregor own goal as the visitors paid for not making their first-half pressure count.
Rangers boss Steven Gerrard: “It’s another win and another clean sheet. I’m proud of the team in terms of their efforts, but in the first half we weren’t good enough. We weren’t ourselves and I thought we were second best in a lot of areas.
“There was a big improvement in the second half. We were getting up to people and we were more aggressive. We were believing in ourselves in what we were trying to do. The sending off was a major incident in the game, and there only looked like one team was going to win it from there.
“I asked the players how much they wanted to win a derby, especially here at Ibrox. We couldn’t be passive and second best. Credit to Celtic in that first half, but we will remain humble now having stretched our lead. We’re not always going to be pretty on the eye.
“It’s all about the outcome, and it’s a good sign for us to win despite not being at our best. McGregor was outstanding. He’s a world-class goalkeeper and he’s reliable. I already knew about him but I know even more now why he’s been successful at this club. He’s bailed us out on a number of occasions. We will look to Aberdeen now and there’s a lot of obstacles still to get over. Today was about making a statement but we don’t look at leads. Our season starts now.”
Rangers lead at Ibrox! 🟦
Callum McGregor’s own-goal puts the hosts ahead against Celtic!
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— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) January 2, 2021
Celtic boss Neil Lennon: “I’m bitterly disappointed as I thought we were the better team. The referee has made the wrong decision that has changed the course of the game. It’s not a sending off… it’s a foul but we had Ajer coming round on the cover.
“It wasn’t a clear goalscoring opportunity and I felt he was too quick to get the red card out. It changed the course of the game as we were in total control, dominating the game.
“We’ve been done by a pretty poor refereeing decision. I don’t think he was great all day. Nir got himself in the wrong body position but we had Ajer on the cover. Our goalkeeper had nothing to do today, and we felt the goal was coming up until the red card. In a game of this magnitude, it was a rash decision from the referee. We didn’t have the luck and we made Rangers look very ordinary today.”
Fans reacted after seeing that a vile troll calls for the Celtic player and his wife to be ‘hanged’…
@deathdenial: A club like no other.
@JohnMatchett6: Disgrace man
@scottmc1875: Its only a game
Thats just wrong im pissed off aswell but lets face facts Bitton is never a CB hes a CM Lennon has had plenty time to sort out defence why didnt he sort it out while we were winning it was still a problem then. Any way leave the man and his family alone
— Wullie Home (@HomeWullie) January 3, 2021
Do the fannys that fo this not realise they are just demoralising a team all ready in meltdown
— craig (@craig07848643) January 3, 2021
No one’s happier than I am that Rangers beat Celtic yesterday, but for a sick troll on Twitter to call for Nir Bitton and his wife to be HANGED due to his red card yesterday truly beggars belief. Can’t recall Rangers fans threatening their own players during our 💩 years. #WATP
— 🏴😷Wear A Mask😷🏴 (@aguycallededdy) January 3, 2021
Sometimes, I despair at the human race.
— John Molloy (@jbhoymolloy) January 3, 2021
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