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SCOTT BROWN last night launched an astonishing attack on ex-Celt Andy Walker.

The Parkhead skipper’s season is over but he signed-off by letting rip at the TV pundit after the champions all-but tied-up Five in a Row.

Walker has been an outspoken critic of boss Ronny Deila and his players throughout the campaign but Brown stuck up for his gaffer and his colleagues as he hit back vehemently.

He said: “We haven’t got over the finishing line yet but, at the end of the day, people are going to criticise.

“Andy Walker is one that goes out there and manages to do it but he has never had a manager’s job or know what it’s like to be coming in here day in, day out.

“He’s pretty much a poor man’s Gary Neville.

“It’s every day, he does my f***ing box in.

“I’m sure he would say when he was playing so many years ago that there were so many coming out and slaughtering people but you think people are bigger than that and better than that and maybe stick up for the club and manager a bit more.

“At the end of the day, who cares. It’s only him.

“It’s the manager that has got it more than anyone else and it’s easy for him [Walker] sitting up there saying things, anybody could do that.

“But he [Walker] walks out the tunnel and doesn’t even look in anyone’s eyes and puts his head down.

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“So he obviously knows he has done something wrong.

“But, yet again, the fans were exceptional [at Tynecastle] and they don’t believe what he says.

“He knows he has been in this situation before and he didn’t win that much when he was here.

“Sometimes you’ve got to take it on the chin but, maybe, he is just jealous.”

Brown, meanwhile, won’t play again for his club this term and is also set to miss Scotland’s end-of-term double-header against France and Italy.

The captain has battled through injuries in both hamstrings to help Celtic clinch the Premiership title.

(Image: Russell Cheyne/Action Images via Reuters)

With that job done after the 3-1 weekend win over Hearts, the 30-year-old will now sit-out the final three matches in a bid to get fully-fit for the start of next term.

Brown said: “I think that’s me done and dusted now.

“I need to close down for a few weeks and just concentrate on my fitness and try to get back because I’ve been struggling to get around the park.

“I’ve been sitting in front of the back four the past few weeks and I’ve been struggling to do that.

“You could see in the last few minutes [against Hearts] I wasn’t moving very well.

“It’s football and people play through injuries, there are a lot of players who have done that this season.

“So it’s brilliant for the lads to do that and help the gaffer out.

“But I’ve got tendonitis in both hamstrings, so I just need to chill, settle and go and enjoy my summer.

“It’s feet up, watch the lads play and, hopefully, we can get three great victories in the last three games.”

Brown will consult Gordon Strachan about the international situation and added: “I need to go and speak to him, I don’t know what will happen about that.”

However, it seems highly unlikely the national coach will push Brown into playing two friendlies with a World Cup qualification campaign starting in the autumn and the midfielder’s season looks done.

See below: Scott Brown behind the wheel at a Ladbrokes rally event at Knockhill.