Martin O’Neill has a go at journo after question on Celtic scenes vs Hearts

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Martin O’Neill was involved in a frosty interaction after Celtic’s win against Hearts.

The interim boss was on cloud nine after delivering the unlikeliest of league titles. Until the final day of the season, they had not spent a single day at the top of the league in either of O’Neill’s spells.

After a first-half that was far from encouraging, the momentum shifted, allowing late goals from Callum Osmand and Daizen Maeda to deliver the title.

In celebration, fans flooded onto the pitch, and O’Neill was asked about this after the game.

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Martin O’Neill: I didn’t see scenes after Celtic title win

Asked by Michael Walker after the game if he saw the scenes after the game, O’Neill said: “No I didn’t, I have not seen the scenes.”

Walker pushed, saying: “You must’ve seen the scenes…”

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O’Neill interjected: “What do you mean? If I didn’t say I’d seen the scenes, you can’t tell me I must have seen them!

“Sorry Michael, I genuinely didn’t see the scenes at the end, because I’m there.

“I thought the game wasn’t over, so I’m trying to push some of our fans off the pitch again to play whatever is left.

“Obviously, I think at 3-1, I think that the fourth official had said to me there was like a minute to go when we scored the goal. So with the best will in the world, they’re not going to get two goals in that time.

“So I didn’t see the incidents. Obviously, there’s a lot of commotion in the tunnel, so I don’t know.

“But getting back to the point that Robert said, if Hearts players have been accosted by some of our fans, that’s pretty serious. And they’ve sufficiently agreed to have left very quickly on the bus.”

Hearts players rushed to leave the stadium still in their jerseys with concern for their safety after the pitch invasion, during which they were goaded by Celtic fans.

The seriousness of what happened is yet to be established; pitch invasions in these circumstances are common and rarely generate this much controversy.