Martin O’Neill responds to Tony Bloom’s ‘assault’ claims

Martin O’Neill has addressed remarks made by Tony Bloom ahead of Celtic’s Scottish Cup final clash with Dunfermline, after the Hearts investor spoke publicly about incidents involving players last weekend.

Bloom appeared on talkSPORT following O’Neill’s own interview with the broadcaster and alleged that “one or two” Hearts players had been “assaulted” during the aftermath of Saturday’s match.

Speaking to reporters at Hampden before the final, O’Neill pushed back on the claims and stressed that no such allegations had yet been substantiated.

“Tony Bloom has made some reflections himself to Jim [White], and he said that two of their players were ‘assaulted,’” he said via Celtic’s official YouTube channel.

“If that’s the case, then obviously there would be a deep apology from all of us at Celtic Park, but that has not been proved. If that hasn’t been proved, then that’s a fairly severe allegation. That has not been proved.

“If it is eventually proved, and there has been a lot of searching around over videos and things like that here. Obviously, that would be very serious indeed.

“But he did use the word ‘assault’, when that hasn’t been proven yet.”

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