Neil Lennon was in no mood to pull his punches on the subject or Rangers alleged tax evasion for a period stretching over a decade at his press conference yesterday. Asked if winning this season’s SPL by less than Rangers 10 point penalty would devalue the achievement he said, “If we do win it and people want to throw that at me, I will have plenty to say about devalued titles over the years”.
Peter Lawwell strongly rebuffed suggestions that Celtic were in a mood to show solidarity with Rangers should they lose their tax tribunal early this week and Celtic marked the card of Rangers’ political schemer, Alex Salmond, who tried to tell the world how Celtic fans felt about the issue.
While Neil Lennon was keen to focus on tomorrow’s important SPL game against Hibernian, he dealt with questions on Rangers without flintching. Asked about “financial doping” he said, “doping is a sporting term for cheating”
Adding, “In athletics, if you are caught doping you are banned. Alberto Contador got stripped of his Tour de France win in 2010, so there are precedents.
“It’s all hearsay and hot air at the minute. I don’t want to comment on it until all the results and all the findings are out. But if it has had a direct effect on me in my playing days, I will come out and say something at that time. As it is now, it hasn’t been proved.
“They are in administration for a reason and I am sure you guys will get to the bottom of it. It’s not my business, not our club’s business, but it will be my business if it has affected me as a player, or previous managers, and has denied us titles and trophies in the past.”
Conspiracy theorists who have tried to convince the world that Celtic and Rangers have been involved in some mutual preservation pact in recent years will be forced to reflect on the accuracy and consequences of their confounded allegations. As always, our club will only prosper with unity. Persistent attempts to rip it apart will only cause further damage.
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I listened to the pre match noise coming from Ibrox. I think the world would do fine without all that . :-)
paladin
it`s not
it just a day of “we are ra peepil” defiance coupled with some verbal catholic bashing
Rangers tv guy reading out a Churchill seech there! Beyond parody!
Is it me or does Rob the hun MacLean sound pished?
Looking forward to listening and witnessing the atmosphere generated by the Celtic fans at Easter road the morra!!
Love you Celtic!!!
Hail hail
What nobody asks Yorkston is whether Dunfermline have paid the huns the reported 75 grand for Jordan McMillan or the loan fee for Kyle Hutton. It could be that Dunfermline owe the huns money!!
Radio Scotland not broadcasting the game on the web??? “For contractual reasons we are unable to bring you this program but keep listening and normal service will resume shortly” being broadcast over and over…. any one else. I live in England?? but sure I’ve had the game stream before
Neil Lennon fantastic at press conference yesterday…..brilliant response to an obvous question….he is growing in this job fast !
The April HMRC is also good as it keeps it all dragging along….It obviously will make sense for the HMRC to keep them going…..another 10 years of purgatory (4 or 5 million pa handicap) is a good result for us, whether they start in D3 or SPL IMO, even better with the loss of Murray Park or Ibrox as an asset and no Europe for a few seasons….
The best result for me will also include the overturning of tainted trophy wins……
The slow drip drip drip feed of negativity around their club is fantastic as we hopefully progress…..
Next week is about more revelations and who is kicked out of the big hoose in the first lot of public evictions !
Wallace payment isn’t really due to be paid till July, so as yet, it’s not late.
Famine song getting belted out – over to you, plod/SFA
Spearman, I’m in Europe and always get that message from the BBC during sport commentaries.
Music analogy : farewell gig from minority cult has-beens.
sparkleghirl
Yep the footballing equivalent of Wonga.com for that large amounts anyway :o)
the huns don’t talk to the bbc !!!!
Healy and Davis – “legends of Windsor Park!”
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. Sparkle Gal.
Hiya.. Doin??
Gal.. Please dae no use the woid.. “Sold”
The Woid “Sold” gies the wrang Impression.. although. technically correct..
The Woid..the should be used.. regarding the Great Money Transfer..
should Be..
‘
“DISCOUNTED”
as in. ..the Statement..
“The G.A has DISCOUNTED a Bundle of Season Tickets.. to Ticketus.. for the Following Future Seasons..
Fur.. there no way.. that Ticketus..wid Pay the G.A. the Full ACTUAL WORTH of
those Tickets..
Ah kin only hazard a Guess.. and Ah wull….aboot how much the G.A.
Had to DISCOUNT the full Value of These Briefs,afore Ticketus would
do a Deal.
A Commonly used Discount Percentage Figure, in these Kinda Cases,
Is.. Twenty Per Cent.. mebbe, mair or Less..
In any Case..
The G.A. would have bin ADVANCED…. only Eighty Per Cent of the Full Value of
the Tickets which they Discounted tae Ticketus.
There is No chance that the G.A. received the Full.. Ticket Printed Price..
From Ticketus..
Ah jist wanta Bring this to the Attention of Ma Readers.
Kojo
yer pal. who likes ye , aloater.
“We hate Celtic, fenian b’stards” being belted out.
Scum utter scum.
up – over- goal
Cha in place of Matthews is madness
Matthews is a talented young footballer who will go far …Cha is a journeyman who runs fast
other than that your team is spot on
Mince on Celtic Minded says Police have intercepted a suspicious package sent to Neil Lennon-Unconfirmed.
You know what I havent heard for a while and really miss…
… In Whyte we Trust!
always made me smile, even more so now :0D
I hope wee nevin is listening at ibrokes
good afternoon cqn
they are playing Symply The Best at mordor,vibrant atmosphere says Mark Guidi, I Right
going out with i know hurting huns tonight(cant pick your in laws) told by she who must be obeyed to behave myself,have all afternoon to think about it,any ideas?
sparkleghirl says:
18 February, 2012 at 15:09
Thanks for that … pretty sure we usually get the comentry in England. Something to do with the FOD not getting along with the BBC I wonder???
Spearman…..
You need to refresh the page or go back in from the main bbc sport scotland page….
Spearman, dunno, the BBC always give that licesing excuse. I imagine it means the rights to the game have been sold elsewhere?
WATP – What? Administration? Ten Points?
But thinking…..if you’re in the UK you pay your licence fee and surely you’re entitiled to listen to BBC broadcasts.
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1-0 killie
Killie 1-0!
0-1 Killie
1-0 Killie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
goal killie
AHahahahahahaha
oh yes!
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSS
Oh Dear
Some booing from the Rangers fans 0:1
1-0 Killie-bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa