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Celtic captain Scott Brown has laughed off Heart’s goal yesterday after an embarrassing dive from Jamie Walker.
The Jam Tarts midfielder dispatched a penalty after falling to the ground and conning the ref into believing contact was made between him and Kieran Tierney, much to the dismay of the young defender.
Nevertheless, the Hoops went on to pick up all three points after a fantastic counter-attack from Leigh Griffiths and Scott Sinclair.
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As quoted by the Glasgow Evening Times after the game, the 31-year-old Celtic midfielder laughed at Walker’s incident and said:
When you see it back there is tonnes of contact the way he dives. He is really good at that, he should be at Rio.
Dive, cheat – what else can you say? The referee has come out at half-time and said he got it completely wrong.
James Forrest had given Brendan Rodgers side an early lead at Tynecastle but they were made to work for the win in the end on the opening weekend of the league.
The winger was given the Man of the Match award but Brown was also impressive as he was in midweek against Astana, and his form is on the up after a tough year with various injuries.
Brown will hope to bring the form into Wednesday’s League Cup tie against Motherwell at Paradise, with a place in the quarter-final up for grabs.
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