Scott Brown has hit back over the criticism he and manager, Neil Lennon, received over a photo taken of them at their winter training camp in Dubai. Brown along with Lennon are accused of breaking social distancing protocols on the much maligned trip.
The photo shows the two sitting by the poolside bar enjoying a beer whilst appearing to break the two metre social distancing rule.
Brown hits back at the criticism and claimed that the team followed all the guidelines in place, “Everyone is going to question everything – that’s the modern-day era.
“Everyone has a say in everything we do these days.
“We got the okay from the government and we made sure we followed the guidelines from there.
“We went out and worked hard on training – that’s what the whole thing was for us.
“People don’t see our training daily or see how hard we worked.
“Sometimes you’re allowed to sit on the sunbeds and have some down-time as well.
“What we do away from the cameras in training is for us to benefit in games.
“As you’ve seen in the last three or four seasons, we’ve come back from Dubai and done really well because we work extremely hard.
“It’s all about the preparation for the next five or six months of the season.
“The manager’s philosophy, which he puts on to us, is how we can work in different ways and different shapes.
“We worked on that all week and that’s what Dubai has been for us in the last three or four seasons now.”