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Murphy has no sympathy for Brown

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Danny Murphy weighed in on the debate surrounding Celtic midfielder Scott Brown seeing red against Kilmarnock on Sunday.

The former Premier League player appeared to imply that the Hoops captain was irresponsible for celebrating from the crowd as while it was rare that a fan can get hurt from a goal celebration, it was players responsibility not to endanger anyone.

Murphy added that he had no sympathy for Brown over the incident against Kilmarnock for this reason as the rules are in place to stop things such as  kids getting hurts.

“Emotions do get the better of you of times, I do understand that but as players I think you are aware of the repercussions of what you doing, although adrenaline takes over and euphoria and all those things, but you have a responsibility,” said Murphy on talkSPORT (10:09am, Monday February 18th).

“It’s very rare that goals celebrations cause injuries to people when they go into crowd or not but there’s still an obligation to abide by the rules, I think it’s not that difficult to stay in the perimeters of the pitch.

“I don’t have too much sympathy, I mean don’t get me wrong some players will take a yellow card and just be done with it, but when it leads to a sending off it becomes more highlighted.

“I’ve got no sympathy, the players know the rules and actually I think if it prevents only one incident of a kid getting hurt, to stop the stampede or the rush, it’s worth doing it.

“I don’t think you can just say to players celebrate how you want, there has to be some pentameters, or we gonna have problems, I don’t agree with Brendan on that to be honest.”

OPINION

This is a quite bizarre detailed verdict by Murphy on Brown’s red card so there’s a lot to dissect. While it’s clear that Brown saw red due to picking up his second yellow card for celebrate his match-winning goal was a clear violation of the rules, Murphy appears to go over the top. He’s right to claim that by the letter of the law, Brown should have got booked and saw his game ended earlier. However the whole talk about it being a player’s responsibility not to get carried away celebrating, seems like very strict wording. Murphy clearly implies that Brown was irresponsible to go celebrate his goal in the way that he did, and perhaps even thinks the veteran is a bit reckless. It may be true that Brown will accept his resulting suspension due to the booking with no quarrels, as just like Murphy said he did know the rules ahead of time as they’re clear, but he may not appreciate the pundit’s remarks on the situation.

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