A Perthshire company boss has been exposed as a football song bigot.
Rory Carmichael, 51, is a director of an aviation engineering firm Vanguard Engineering Solutions.
But on a train back from a Rangers match against Alloa Athletic last September he chanted offensive lyrics on a crowded train.
Two middle-aged women left the carriage in alarm as Carmichael, who had been drinking, and a “boisterous” group of Rangers supporters joined the train at Alloa.
Stirling Sheriff Court heard the fans began singing Hello, Hello.
Most of the fans stopped when told to do so by train staff, but PC Craig Buchanan, 56, said he heard Carmichael continue with the song’s most offensive line.
PC Buchanan and a colleague radioed ahead and Carmichael was arrested as he tried to change trains at Stirling.
Carmichael, of Airlie View, Alyth, pleaded not guilty singing a football song containing offensive words on September 20 2014.
He insisted the only songs he had sung were Rule Britannia and God Save The Queen.
Three defence witnesses also said Hello, Hello was never sung.
Depute fiscal Lindsey Brooks claimed the men were not telling the truth in order to save Carmichael from a matches ban.
She said: “It is simply incredible that the officers should make that up.”
Sheriff Gillian Wade said she had no reason to disbelieve the police, and found Carmichael guilty.
She fined him £750 and imposed a football banning order to run until the end of the season.
She said: “This was not acceptable behaviour.”