Liam Burt has lifted the lid on the online abuse he received after joining Celtic from Rangers.
The midfielder, who recently had spells at both Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers in Ireland, made the controversial move across Glasgow on a free transfer in 2019 at 20 years of age.
He said [RecordSport]: "After going from Rangers to Celtic earlier in my career, we played Rangers at Auchenhowie and someone on Twitter quoted something about ‘who's stabbing him?’
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"That was pretty shocking. I still have the screenshots on my phone. I just look at it and laugh and show people now. But it’s not right.
"When I went to Shamrock Rovers from Bohemians, we played them at Bohs’ ground Dalymount and someone shouted ‘even your mum and dad hate you’.
"One of the worst ones was somebody wishing cancer on family. That definitely makes you stop and think ‘yeah, okay that's a wee bit too far’.
"I’ve put stories up on social media and had people reply calling me a rat and a snake. Everybody gets stuff like that. It still doesn’t make it right.
"At first it might be a bit hard for my family seeing all that kind of stuff. But when they started to realise that I wasn't affected by it then they had nothing to worry about.
"There were stories when I was leaving Bohs for Rovers and fans were making stuff up that I was being forced out because I was in the pub too much. Just absolute rubbish.
"It’s getting worse, social media. It’s just what people do. There's nothing stopping them."
