RANGERS chief Charles Green and manager Ally McCoist were bombarded with hundreds of vile calls — after their mobile numbers were posted online by a Celtic troll.
Hoops yob Stuart Kennedy, 35, tweeted the private details — then used his Twitter account to urge others to hound the pair.
Photographer Kennedy, 35, targeted his club’s Old Firm rivals as he watched Celts beat Helsingborgs in a Champions League clash at a packed Parkhead on Wednesday.
He claimed the numbers were being passed among tens of thousands of fellow fans in the crowd of 50,000.
In his first tweet he posted an 11-digit mobile number and wrote: “No joke, the belfast bhoys have been giving them it tight all day! haha.”
Soon after he posted a second message, adding: “Someone sent that as a text to me haha dont know if it is s**t. Let me know lol.”
A Rangers source said: “It’s shocking. Ally and Charles were given dogs abuse all day. Some of it was seriously abusive.”
Last night, Kennedy was facing a police probe.
At his semi-detached home in a quiet suburb of Carfin, Lanarkshire, the dad desperately tried to play down his actions.
He told The Scottish Sun he had no idea that the numbers he posted belonged to McCoist and Green. Visibly shaking, Kennedy, explained: “It was just a retweet. I didn’t think anything of it.
“Someone sent me it as a text and, like you would with a joke, I just thought that I would post it on.
“Honestly, I thought they were fake numbers — if I could say sorry to Ally I would.”
Kennedy suggested that he too has been the subject of sectarian abuse since he posted the numbers of the two Ibrox bigwigs. And he claimed he has had to hand his mobile over to Strathclyde Police as a result.
He said: “Since I posted the numbers I’ve taken them down.
“But I have been subjected to quite a few phone calls of a sectarian nature.”
A spokesman for Rangers described Kennedy’s actions as “grossly irresponsible” and insisted action had been taken to ensure Green and McCoist, below, were not subject to further abuse.
He added: “The numbers were made public on the internet, we believe, following the theft of a mobile phone.”
Strathclyde Police had no record of Kennedy complaining he too was subject to abuse on his phone.
A spokeswoman for the force said inquiries are continuing.
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