Celtic’s Champions League win was slightly marred by Linfield fans.
Scott Brown has joked to the Glasgow Evening Times that he left Belfast with a “profit” after finding a pound coin during Celtic’s fiery 2-0 win away to Linfield last night.
Brendan Rodgers’s side placed one foot in the next round of Champions League qualifiers by beating the Northern Irish outfit 2-0.
First-half goals from Scott Sinclair and Tom Rogic did the damage for Celtic on a night which saw Leigh Griffiths the subject of physical abuse from the partisan home fans.
Linfield, predominatly of a protestant background, marred the clash somewhat after some of their fans targeted the Celtic hitman with coins and glass bottles in the second half.
Bizarrely, Griffiths was booked for perceived time wasting after refusing to take the corner until he cleared the missiles from the pitch, and Brown says that referee Alejandro Gonzalez lacked a bit of common sense over the incident.
“I didn’t get hit but I found a pound coin – so I came away making a profit!” he told The GET. “We don’t worry about the other stuff. We just concentrate on what happens on the park.
“It’s football, these things happen. We’ve been to Ibrox and Tynecastle and it’s like that all of the time. It’s part and parcel of football. That was a weird booking. He was having bottles and coins thrown at him. But you have to take that stuff on the chin and deal with it. We know when we get back to Celtic Park we have a bigger pitch and our fans behind us.
“I never asked Leigh about the booking. It was a 45-yard run away and I don’t make those kind of runs.
“You need to use a bit of common-sense sometimes but maybe the referee didn’t see it. Leigh was fine at the end.”
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