by Andrew Muirhead

A RANGERS fans representative was caught posting homophobic abuse at a football player on Tuesday night after he signed for the club’s rivals.

Sons of Struth founder Craig Houston was so incensed with Hibernian midfielder Scott Allan’s decision to sign for Celtic, that he posted video tweets with homophobic comments aimed at the Scottish youngster.

In these tweets supposedly “honouring” Rangers midfielder Andy Halliday, he labelled Allan as a “gay” and called him “a poofter.”

Boyhood Rangers fan Allan had been the subject of three bids from the Ibrox side, with each rejected by Hibernian as they refused to sell to their title rivals. This led to Allan handing in a transfer request to force a move to Ibrox but again this was rejected.

Houston had lauded the potential arrival of Allan to Ibrox by labelling him a talented midfielder and that his agent would do everything in his power to make sure he would sign a pre-contract agreement for Rangers in January. This was just days before Celtic signed the youngster for £275,000.

When confronted online by the BBC’s Tom English over his “homophobic moment,” Houston  — who had labelled the Irishman as anti-Rangers during a previous BBC Sportsound show — claimed that the journalist was pandering to Celtic fans.

Houston said: “Someone seems to be playing to their target audience. Again.”

Houston, who hails from Linwood, cofounded Sons of Struth with convicted drug dealer, football hooligan and former BNP supporter Sandy Chugg.

The drinks firm Vodquila salesman has been used by a number of media outlets in Scotland over the past year, including BBC, STV, the Evening Times and the Daily Record during the Rangers fans boycott of the club when controlled by the previous board under the Easdale brothers.

Them media outlets have not said if they will continue to use Houston’s services following his homophobic comments.

This latest Rangers fan rep scandal comes months after Chris Graham of the Rangers Supporters Trust had to resign from the Rangers board after just two days as a director, following a racist tweet posted to a Muslim cleric depicting the Prophet Mohammed engaged in a sex act in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack.

Houston was unavailable for comment.