Arne Engels details Celtic derby day from hell from throwing up his breakfast to throwing coins

A day in the young life of Arne Engels that the Belgian is likely never to forget. It began like any other. With a bite of breakfast.

But when Engels ran to the toilet to throw it all back up again he may have suspected that things were about to go from bad to worse. Struck down by a winter bug, Engels had to have his name scored off Celtic’s starting XI for the New Year derby at Ibrox. He then suffered in silence from the bench as Rangers romped towards a shock 3-0 win.

And, then, when it finally was his turn to be thrown on as a late sub, he was floored by a flying coin, hurled at him by some lame brain from the home support, who is now the subject of a Police Scotland manhunt. “It was not a nice experience for the whole team,” Engels said in the biggest understatement of the first few days of January.

He went on: “Every time when you lose, you’re disappointed, you’re disappointed in yourself and in the team. So we knew that we could do a lot of things better.

"In the morning I threw up my breakfast, so that was not really nice and a nice feeling in my stomach the whole day actually. That’s the most important thing - you need 11 players or 15 players that are really energetic - but I wanted to be there for the team in the end.”

Moments later Engels was sparked out by some missile throwing moron as he stood over a corner kick. He went on: “Of course these things shouldn’t be happening. You’re on a football pitch and that needs to be a safe place.

“You’ll always have people that are saying things to you or something, but that’s normal, that’s part of football. But throwing things or doing stuff like that is not really part of football for me.

“It’s a shock when something goes onto your head and after the shock it was