BLUEBLOOD
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... to the Hearts lad who just landed one on the odious Neil Lennon
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southendkid
Director⭐
- Joined
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- Messages
- 5,981
Don't care what kind of man Neil lennon is, the random assualts and letterbombs have gone too far. On a side note the spl fixture rules don't make logical sense, people should boycott the SPL until they fix it, that way Neil Lennon is out of a job and all the death threat people can forget about him, then everyone's happy!
Clinton Baptiste
Life President⭐
All the controversies, fights, touchline bans, bombs, threats everything. One common denominator- Neil Lennon. The guy is an odious human being, a low life thug who you fancy actually enjoys all this aggro he is getting. Mouthy little **** who is all talk, see the way Mccoist stood up to him in the old firm game. Now he has about 10 police escorting him to the tunnell, but still he goads the fans when celtic score. Celtic are a great club, one of the biggest in the world with fantastic fans but they dont have the manager they deserve. As a sidenote Scottish football is a joke anyway, 2 big clubs and the rest are absolute toilet.
Perth Bambi
Pinocchio
You think he enjoys getting bombs sent to him? Really?
OldBlueLady
Junior Blues Coordinator⭐⭐
No excuse for violence, and no human being should have to put up with what he has recently for no other reason than he is the manager of a certain team, odious individual or not.
stevie_G_G_G
The OG King
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2007
- Messages
- 2,348
I don't think anyone will really understand the situation completely until they have lived in Glasgow. A couple of people on here though have just shown themselves to be small minded, and to look like ******s tbh!!
Rusty Shackleford
Banned
I think it's a bit rich of fans who openly support the IRA to be getting upset about letter bombs.
Good use of labelling Mr Blueblood.
What's Lennon done to **** everyone off so much?
What's Lennon done to **** everyone off so much?
Gremlin
Life President⭐
For getting in the way of Alan Shearer's studs that time.
Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
Do you mean this photo?
I understand that a section of the Rangers fans were chanting "What's it like to live in fear?". That's a pretty sick chant in my book; and, if they were chanting that, then I don't blame Lennon for his reaction at all.
However, he is chippier than most of his predecessors - and, given that one of those was MON, that's going some.
BrettieAngell
THE ROCK GOD
Its just getting way out of hand, what if the bloke had a knife in his hand and stuck it in Lennon? Would you be saying "well done" then?
Rusty Shackleford
Banned
Only if he stuck it in his eye.
Sandbach Shrimper
Life President⭐
No, not fair play. Nobody should have to live in fear of their life just because of the football team they manage. As has been said, it's gone too far now. That bloke could've had a weapon. Fortunately he just gave him a rather pathetic slap on the head. Fair play to Lennon for staying in his job and battling on.
brigadista
Youth Team
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- Messages
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Forget that rather facile comment by a legendary manager about football being more important than life or death, to a present-day one it is about just that. Or rather more specifically, death.
Neil Lennon, the manager of Celtic, is a Catholic, a republican and courageously outspoken. It shouldn’t be necessary to append these adjectives to his name but it is because of them that he has received his latest live death threat, a bullet in the post. Prior to that there have been deadly letter bombs and more bullets, his home in Glasgow’s West End is bristling with security devices, his wife has to go to a safe house with their child when Celtic are travelling and Lennon is under police protection, but clearly of the most cursory nature. On Wednesday evening as he stood on the touchline guiding his team to victory over Hearts at Tynecastle a home supporter leaped the wall scampered past what is laughably known as security and landed a blow before being overpowered by Lennon’s coaching assistants. His assailant hasn’t appeared in court yet but you couldn’t get odds anywhere that the man is anything other than a virulent and violent Protestant bigot.
If Neil Lennon decides at the end of this week and the league campaign that he’s chucking it in then no one would blame him. Scotland, however, would die of shame.
The reaction in Scotland has been curiously muted. It’s as if that because we’ve lived with anti-Catholic bigotry for so long it’s not unexpected, if slightly over the top. Some have even turned it onto the victims, that it’s really the Tims’ fault for maintaining separate schools. If those letter-bombers or that attacker had just shared a sandwich with a Catholic at play times if would never have come to this.
Some even went further. George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock, is a former chairman of Hearts, the club the attacker follows. He’s a lickspittle Labour man with a despicable record. In 1993, he was forced to resign as Shadow Defence Minister after being convicted of being drunk and disorderly during in incident in which he struck a Police officer. And in September last year he, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter stating their opposition to the Pope’s state visit to the UK. On Sky News on the day after the Lennon attack Foulkes joked that if Celtic moved to the Irish league that would solve the problem.
Bigotry is clearly in the genes too. His son Alex, another Hearts supporter, is a sectarian football hooligan. He was convicted of hurling abuse at Celtic fans – the longest and most sustained police officers had witnessed - and when arrested told the police they’d be in trouble because his father was an MP and his mother was on the police board.
No one would argue that Celtic fans are spotless – one was jailed this week for racial abuse of a Rangers’ player – but they have never been guilty of the sustained, anthemic, sectarian chanting and singing that the Rangers support has disgraced itself over more than a century (Rangers will have to play their next European away game supporterless because of it). Their songs are rebel ones about their heritage, rather than foul abuse at the other half of the Old Firm’s religion. And it was only in the mid-1980s that Rangers signed its first Catholic player. Pele couldn’t have got into the team before then.
It took UEFA, the football authority, to bring the first official sanction on Rangers. Rafts of politicians, councillors and sheriffs could have done it for aeons before, but didn’t. And the police have traditionally stood back and allowed the support to ‘**** the Pope’ and bathe in ‘Fenian blood’, despite the flagrant breaches of at least two laws. Only in the last match between the two sides, after what us Scots would call a previous touchline stramash, have the police promised zero tolerance.
Where were they when this crazed numpty, who could have been carrying a knife, jumped over the barrier and launched his attack on Lennon? Given the previous history plod should have been in the dugout with him, or at least hovering in the technical area. And what about the stewards who are meant to stop these incursions? Missing in inaction! Tynecastle, Hearts ground, should now be closed until there are guarantees that such an incident can never re-occur. As should Ibrox, Rangers ground, at the first chirrup of what used to be called a party song but is better described as sectarian bile.
Scottish piety about being a tolerant country has been exploded by the sustained sectarian attacks on Lennon. It’s the bigotry which dare not speak its name. To his credit the First Minister Alex Salmond, another Hearts supporter, has condemned the attack. But until there’s drastic action against these sick-making Protestant hate-merchants it’s just so much mouthwash. We all need to stand behind Neil Lennon. Or, perhaps more accurately, in front of him.
Neil Lennon, the manager of Celtic, is a Catholic, a republican and courageously outspoken. It shouldn’t be necessary to append these adjectives to his name but it is because of them that he has received his latest live death threat, a bullet in the post. Prior to that there have been deadly letter bombs and more bullets, his home in Glasgow’s West End is bristling with security devices, his wife has to go to a safe house with their child when Celtic are travelling and Lennon is under police protection, but clearly of the most cursory nature. On Wednesday evening as he stood on the touchline guiding his team to victory over Hearts at Tynecastle a home supporter leaped the wall scampered past what is laughably known as security and landed a blow before being overpowered by Lennon’s coaching assistants. His assailant hasn’t appeared in court yet but you couldn’t get odds anywhere that the man is anything other than a virulent and violent Protestant bigot.
If Neil Lennon decides at the end of this week and the league campaign that he’s chucking it in then no one would blame him. Scotland, however, would die of shame.
The reaction in Scotland has been curiously muted. It’s as if that because we’ve lived with anti-Catholic bigotry for so long it’s not unexpected, if slightly over the top. Some have even turned it onto the victims, that it’s really the Tims’ fault for maintaining separate schools. If those letter-bombers or that attacker had just shared a sandwich with a Catholic at play times if would never have come to this.
Some even went further. George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock, is a former chairman of Hearts, the club the attacker follows. He’s a lickspittle Labour man with a despicable record. In 1993, he was forced to resign as Shadow Defence Minister after being convicted of being drunk and disorderly during in incident in which he struck a Police officer. And in September last year he, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter stating their opposition to the Pope’s state visit to the UK. On Sky News on the day after the Lennon attack Foulkes joked that if Celtic moved to the Irish league that would solve the problem.
Bigotry is clearly in the genes too. His son Alex, another Hearts supporter, is a sectarian football hooligan. He was convicted of hurling abuse at Celtic fans – the longest and most sustained police officers had witnessed - and when arrested told the police they’d be in trouble because his father was an MP and his mother was on the police board.
No one would argue that Celtic fans are spotless – one was jailed this week for racial abuse of a Rangers’ player – but they have never been guilty of the sustained, anthemic, sectarian chanting and singing that the Rangers support has disgraced itself over more than a century (Rangers will have to play their next European away game supporterless because of it). Their songs are rebel ones about their heritage, rather than foul abuse at the other half of the Old Firm’s religion. And it was only in the mid-1980s that Rangers signed its first Catholic player. Pele couldn’t have got into the team before then.
It took UEFA, the football authority, to bring the first official sanction on Rangers. Rafts of politicians, councillors and sheriffs could have done it for aeons before, but didn’t. And the police have traditionally stood back and allowed the support to ‘**** the Pope’ and bathe in ‘Fenian blood’, despite the flagrant breaches of at least two laws. Only in the last match between the two sides, after what us Scots would call a previous touchline stramash, have the police promised zero tolerance.
Where were they when this crazed numpty, who could have been carrying a knife, jumped over the barrier and launched his attack on Lennon? Given the previous history plod should have been in the dugout with him, or at least hovering in the technical area. And what about the stewards who are meant to stop these incursions? Missing in inaction! Tynecastle, Hearts ground, should now be closed until there are guarantees that such an incident can never re-occur. As should Ibrox, Rangers ground, at the first chirrup of what used to be called a party song but is better described as sectarian bile.
Scottish piety about being a tolerant country has been exploded by the sustained sectarian attacks on Lennon. It’s the bigotry which dare not speak its name. To his credit the First Minister Alex Salmond, another Hearts supporter, has condemned the attack. But until there’s drastic action against these sick-making Protestant hate-merchants it’s just so much mouthwash. We all need to stand behind Neil Lennon. Or, perhaps more accurately, in front of him.
Rusty Shackleford
Banned
Well done, plagiarizing George Galloway, top notch! How that odious Islamist apologist can criticize anyone for religious intolerance is totally beyond me.
Firestorm
Pedant
Surely the accusation against Galloway has always been that he has been too tolerant with all religions,
Muslims and Catholics so far Rusty, any one elses views on religion (which is all opinion and conjecture anyway) not fit in with your theological leanings
Uncle Leo
This cook is an anti-semite
Not fair play at all. Lennon is an antagonistic character, of that there can be little doubt. But death threats? RIP Neil Lennon daubed on walls? Mock-ups posted online of Lennon riddled with bullet holes? Being attacked by a fan whilst on the touchline (i.e. doing his job)? No, all of it utterly unacceptable.
Having said all of that, Celtic's protestations would ring a little truer* if they did more to eliminate some of the disgraceful chants emanating from their own terraces.
*I like Celtic, but probably only Barcelona can rival them for the "who is sat astride the highest horse?" accolade
Having said all of that, Celtic's protestations would ring a little truer* if they did more to eliminate some of the disgraceful chants emanating from their own terraces.
*I like Celtic, but probably only Barcelona can rival them for the "who is sat astride the highest horse?" accolade
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