A Celtic ladies player from Drumchapel was charged with allegedly posting a sectarian remark on her Facebook page after a Rangers fan reported the comment.

Megan McFadden, 19, allegedly wrote the “offensive and sectarian” comments on February 1, 2015, on the day of an Old Firm game.

A witness, a Rangers fan and former ladies footballer, told Glasgow Sheriff Court she reported a sectarian comment with the words “dirty orange inbred monkey b*******”.

She told the court she had “never seen anything as offensive” in her life before.

McFadden is alleged to have behaved in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm by acting in an abusive manner and posting offensive and sectarian remarks on her Facebook page.

The teenager is no longer with Celtic Football Club.

In evidence the witness recalled being at the Rangers and Celtic game on that day with her parents at Hampden Park and checking her Facebook account when she returned to the car.

She told the court she saw a screenshot - a photograph taken of the screen of a mobile phone - showing a comment made by someone on the social networking site.

The witness said she didn’t know who had taken the picture of the phone with the comment, but that it was on a Rangers group on Facebook.

Procurator fiscal depute Lindsay Docherty asked what got her attention and the witness replied: “It was the content of the screenshot.”

Miss Docherty asked: “What was it about the screenshot, the content of it that caught your attention?”

The witness said: “It was the nature of the words in the sentence on the screenshot that took me by surprise.”

She told the court the name associated with it was Megan McFadden adding: “Because it had been her update, her Facebook update at that point, or her status I should say”.

The witness was asked what words she remembers seeing and said: “It was ‘get into these dirty orange inbred monkey b*******.”

She was shown a photograph of the screenshot she described and read it out, confirmed she recognised it.

The witness said: “It took me by a lot of shock and it was really offensive, it’s just I have never seen anything as offensive as that in my life before.”

Miss Docherty asked: “What did you take the word orange to mean?”

She replied: “Protestant.”

The witness described the post as “sectarian” and said that a few days later she emailed a senior female police officer at the FoCUS department - the police’s football unit.

The prosector asked why she reported it to the police.

She said she didn’t think the words should have been used so casually in the public domain.

The trial before sheriff David Young will continue at a later date.