Celtic defender Auston Trusty comes out swinging about Jack Butland ‘boot in the head’ nonsense

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Celtic defender Auston Trusty has launched a defence of claims that he ‘booted’ Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland in the head.

Trusty was at the centre of some Glasgow Derby controversy after the Celtic defender appeared to go in late on Butland as the Hoops beat Rangers in the Premier Sports Cup.

The preceding reaction and fallout of the challenge has been way over the top with Rangers pundits like Billy Dodds embarrassing himself with ‘raked the studs’ down Butland’s face claims about the Celtic defender.

And today, Trusty launches a furious defence of himself in the wake of the hysterical fallout over the Jack Butland challenge.

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Trusty faced the cameras for the first time since the challenge and totally rejected the notion that he deliberately kicked the Rangers goalkeeper in the head.

Trusty told Sky Sports Scotland, “I was just trying to get the ball really. The ref called for yellow, and then VAR checked it and it was a yellow.

“And then just get on with it. There’s not really, I haven’t really thought much about it, really.”

When asked if the challenge has been blown out of proportion, Trusty continued, “Probably, you know, I think at the end of the day, we were the better side from the first half and to the second half, so that that’s really all that matters.”

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The Celtic defender was then asked if he thought the yellow ‘could have been worse’, Trusty wasn’t having any of it.

The Celtic defender continued, “I tapped him, and obviously I didn’t boot him in the head, and I didn’t actually mean it.

“You could see my demeanour and my reaction to tapping him on the head. No, like, I didn’t think it was anything. I just obviously apologised.

“No one means to boot somebody in the head or kick somebody in the head. And I had absolutely tapped him in the head, and that’s all it was.

“I didn’t really think anything much of it, obviously, was apologetic. And you see my hands to him and say, like, I’m sorry, you know, no matter rivalry or whatever it is, that’s not the kind of human I am.

“I think it’s just the Ranger or Celtic, you know? I think no matter what, whatever side has a positive result, other side’s gonna say, whatever.

“And, you know, it’s just how football works in this country and from this rivalry and I don’t think you can really escape that.”

Hopefully, this ends a hysterical week where Rangers fans have made a fool of themselves looking for any refereeing decision that went against them to try and highlight a Celtic refereeing conspiracy.