Callum McGregor admitted Kris Boyd’s comments about his facial injury did not look good but the Celtic captain has accepted the former Rangers striker’s clarification.
Writing in a newspaper column, Boyd expressed surprise that Rangers did not “test out” McGregor’s face mask during their 3-0 derby defeat last week, before later stating he had only meant to highlight the fact they did not get close enough to the midfielder.
Celtic announced they were "addressing" the claims made by Boyd late last week.
“When you first see the comments, it doesn’t make great reading,” McGregor said. “It doesn’t look good in that sense but it has been rectified since then and we have had a chat as well.
“So it’s put to bed now, it’s absolutely fine, we just move on. I think he recognises it was a poor choice of words in the beginning and for me that’s it.”
Soon after Celtic's initial statement, Boyd released a statement reading: “Some have taken that line to mean I wanted one of the Rangers players to intentionally try and hurt the midfielder.
“However, that is absolutely and unequivocally NOT the case.
“It was simply meant as a criticism of the Rangers players for their failure to get close to McGregor.”
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