Rangers winger Ryan Kent has lost his appeal and will serve a two-match ban for striking Scott Brown.
The Ibrox club contested the charge on Tuesday, which freed up the Liverpool loanee for the emphatic win over Hearts.
But the SFA’s independent disciplinary panel has found him guilty of violent conduct and Kent will now miss the Motherwell clash on Sunday and the first post-split fixture two weeks later.
Steven Gerrard had launched a vigorous defence of the 22-year-old, insisting the picture of him striking Brown made the incident look worse.
But the Ibrox boss has accepted his own one-match ban for comments he made to referee Bobby Madden.
The manager had earlier today said: "We spoke to Ryan, we spoke to other players around the incident.
"We have our version of events which are totally different from what we feel has been reported or what he has been accused of and we will challenge it and see what we get from it.
"We don't think it was violent conduct and we don't think it was in the face, simple as that.
"It is always easy in hindsight to look at pictures which look worse than they are.
"I have known Ryan since he was eight, nine years of age, he hasn't got a violent bone in his body.
"He has never been involved in something like this before.
"I think Ryan was merely pushing him away to get him out of his face after being provoked. That's our side of it.
Celtic and Rangers charged by SFA as Steven Gerrard and Scott Brown face bans
"But will see what three people on the panel and Clare (Whyte, SFA compliance officer) think and we will see what comes from it."
But that plea has fallen on deaf ears. It marks a busy day on Hampden’s sixth floor, with the SFA earlier charging Scott Brown, Gerrard and both Celtic and Rangers for incidents during Sunday’s game which the Hoops won 2-0.
Celtic have since revealed they will fight the charges.
