Neil Lennon ‘got’ Celtic. He was a rookie appointment, and the early weeks were far from comfortable, a Hampden defeat to Ross County looked like an ominous early sign, but from the start of his first preseason he didn’t look back.
He was a hugely successful Celtic manager in Scotland and in Europe. The Barcelona team of the last six years, possibly the greatest team in history, were at their peak when they visited Celtic Park in November 2012. Neil came up with the game plan which brought Celtic victory and raised our profile across Europe.
What he had to endure off-field during his time at Celtic was atrocious and a blight on our society. But he overcame it. He stuck it out when you or I may have left, and now he leaves on his own terms – an undisputed winner.
More at another time on who next, but if we get a man nearly as capable we will be doing well.
Take care, Neil.
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Rascar,
I tell myself that I look like George Clooney.
Doesn’t make it true.
http://player.stv.tv/programmes/scotland-tonight/
RC @ 23.52
I fear you provide all the evidence that is required to show that NL is better off out of Scotland.
Shocking the sentences handed out to the “Ashton Lane Two”.
They were one set of sensible shoes away from murder.
Or “Culpible Homicide” as the Edinburgh jury would have decided.
I hope that when he is settled on foreign shores NL tells the truth about the poisoned establishment in this little country of ours — he has the scars to prove it.
Macjay, good evening.
The Baltic states? Really?
Watch out Spain, those racist, homophobic, thuggish Slavs are coming for YOU next. Then Ireland.
Take care all. Night.
john o’neil
23:08 on 22 May, 2014
I remember the golden days when George battered Paxman. Now he is reduced to STV. He used to be box office. Where did it go wrong?
When he started sipping the milk: Catwoman
MadMitch
I hope he tears the scab off the festering sore. Disgraceful treatment from his debut onwards…
HH
John
I know it works both ways, the Ukraine joining the EU means Russia losing Servastopol.
And everyone is lying, all the time.
But it does remind me of the start of the Second World War.
It is very similar.
Gotta Leave,Steve.
Seeya..
Kojo
Mac jay @ 23.52
You really don’t have a clue do you about the history of that part of the world?
You just lap up the anti – Russian crap spewed out by people who should know better.
Putin is a mentalist but a stand alone Ukraine is dried out husk between Poland and Muscovite Russia.
Nikita Kruschov has a lot to answer for.
Just dropped before the ole cot. Why don’t we employ Green and Whyte to push us to Champions League success. Well they promised that for the ole forgotten mob. Just a wee thought before I depart. Zzzzzzzzzzzz
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
GCT
KoK is the unanimous choice of my son’s peers. The ones that go to the games. Give Henke the gig, and we will sell out Paradise.
RC
Help me out …
NL’s debut?
Macjay1
Crimea was always Russian. The USSR re-zoned it under their umbrella organisation(won or stolen in WW2 depending on opinion). Once the USSR merged into CIT etc, a clear anomaly was exposed. Without rampant right wing extremist intervention into Ukraine, a happy peace existed.
Once these insurgencies took hold, the obvious re-alingment happened.
What is happening now in Donesk etc is anyone’s guess.
Bur
Crimea was always Russia(attacked by tooled up British Nurses with Balaclavas)
Ireland was taken by the British and ended up fighting guys with Balaclavas
Nothing is black and white except a keyboard
Roy Croppie, every one of those sick hun bampots is back out on the streets now with the exception of the Kilwinning assassins. They’ll be out soon to wreak their own particular brand of anti catholic bile across Ayrshire and will be viewed as hero’s on their release by a large percentage of the hoard.
Neil Lennon will sleep well in his bed in the knowledge his family are safe from their murderous intent.
NFL was better than all of them and it riles them even more because they know he beat them on and off the park.
HH
Evening Rascar,
A democratically elected government was overthrown by a mob which contained some fascists, Jew haters and ultra nationalists. This mob were backed up by the EU and the Yankee doodles. This mob wanted to restrict the rights of ethnic Russians.
Madmitch and SD are on the ball tonight.
Sleep now!
Mad Mitch
It was around Nov 2000 and he had bleached hair, think StJohnstone
Is Putin in the running for the next CFC boss’s spot? I hope not, he’s a total Goodwin and a shite singer.
And, he’s nowhere near as photogenic as our own Delaney’s Dunky.
Kojo
You canny change yesday, but you can influence tomorrow. Celtic will excite all our tomorrows.
We live in the best ever times for a Tim. Huns deid! CELTIC!!!!!
Final point, just to say, I am critical about aspects of Russian involvement. It isn’t black and white as previously stated.
MadMitch
00:07 on
23 May, 2014
Mac jay @ 23.52
You really don’t have a clue do you about the history of that part of the world?
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I talk about history and you talk about me.
I`m flattered.
CB @ 00.14
What actually happened?
Was he assaulted by the crowd?
The opposition?
Or the MIB?
MadMitch
Dundee away 1-2 victory 10/12/2000
ACGR
I felt some relief today he and his family were leaving. Bombs, bullets, assaults, safe houses…unbelievable pressure and our demands on top of it. An amazing chapter in our history and a remarkable character.
HH
Any links to the Matt McG interview?
Mon, gies it.
ACGR
Both my daughters have advised a different look next time am on telly. Wear a wig and cover the chrome dome da. :)
I was in the Ubiquitous Chip pub the night Neil got attacked.
Me and my mate were a bit worried about him.
He seemed to be exchanging banter with Rangers fans, and seemed to be on his own.
We kept an eye on him as he went to the toilet, as they were miles away.
Anyway, he left before us shouting “still champions” to the folk he was chatting to.
We had half a pint to finish, so we stayed five minutes.
No one followed him.
As we left we saw him unconscious in Ashton Lane.
Hung about to give statements to police, but they weren’t interested.
I have always felt kinda guilty about that.
Macjay
Just what are you trying to say?
The anti Russian establishment tripe spouted by the BBC is actually true?
If you believe that then — I have a bridge you might be interested in.
What’s the chances we will now get to hear what did McCoist said to Neil at Celtic Park?
Will we have to wait for Autobiography?
I demand to be told…
The Onlooker
ACGR – I just did
http://player.stv.tv/programmes/scotland-tonight/
Coneybhoy
00:10 on
23 May, 2014
The Brits transported protestants to Ireland with a view to protestantising the country.
The Soviets sent Russian speakers in large numbers to post-war Latvia,Lithuania and Estonia to Sovietise those countries.
Crimea has always been part of Ukraine.No?
Kruschev,Castro`s mate? Completely agree.Just another murderous fascist Soviet leader
who had the gall to criticise Stalin.
Affoot tae dae the messages.
MadMitch
00:21 on
23 May, 2014
Macjay
I`m sorry that you find what I was ” trying to say” incomprehensible.
My Dear,Dear Macjay…..
You Do Realise That Crimea Was Part Of Russia Before 1955…
When Khruschev Transferred It To Ukraine…
At The Stroke Of A Pen….?
Compare And Contrast With The US Seizing The Kosovo Province From Serbia!
Vladimir Is No Treacherous BOLSHEVIK..
He Is A Proud Nationalist..
Who Wishes To Recreate The Christian Imperial Russia…
That Was Destroyed By Satanic Forces Of Darkness…..In 1917.
Read Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s View On The Driving Forces Behind The Bolshevik ‘Coup’ In 1917..
And What Is The ‘Cultural’ Background Of The Bunch Of Oligarchs…
Who Have Recently Seized Control Of Ukraine…
Funded By The Deep Pockets Of George Soros And The CIA…
[ PS…We Are Witnessing A Sea-Change In British Politics Tonight….
More A UKIP Tsunami Than A Mere Landside…]
Kojo Is… HAPPY !
RC @ 00.20
My — limited — experience has always taught me that you never worry about the verbals.
If it is give and take then the people involved will get shouty before they get violent.
In most cases the guy who loses his rag is controlled by others who remember the “banter”.
The ones to watch are the silent types / the zoomers / the mentalist cowards who get wound up by the noise and the spectacle but who do not contribute to the verbals. They sit, they stew, they bushwhack when they can.
The “Ashton Lane Two” seem to be cut from that cloth.
Do you think Neil will make mega bids for Pukki, Balde in is new job
me neither
Love
macjay
The conflicted relationship between Russia, Ukraine and the West (which, for Russia means Poland, Germany & The Baltic states) has been ongoing since before Communism and has a religious undertone as well as a political one. The original peoples who identified themselves as Rus began nearer to Kiev than Moscow.
The Ukraine sought protection from the Mother Church in Moscow in order to throw off Polish Catholic rule in the 17th century. Their anti-semitism even stems from those times as the Poles used many Jewish tax collectors to enforce their rule.
Since Russia became a stronger state, long before communist rule, it has sought to protect its trade routes and the Crimea is very important given their northern ports were frozen and useless for much of the time.
There are a lot of complex factors involved in this dispute and any attempt to reduce it to a Communist vs Capitalist situation is simplistic, as is seeing it as Fascism vs Socialism. It is a lot more complicated than that. You are right to worry for the Baltic states too but Putin can exert economic pressure on them to allow access without having to go to the trouble of a war.
However, all bets are off if some tea Party nutjob from the US ever gets the chance to meddle in this region.
My bet is that, if there is an economic solution, Ukraine will see its borders shrink as there is undoubted strong sentiment in both Eastern Ukraine and Crimea for links with Russia. There is equally strong sentiment in Western Ukraine for ties with their Western neighbours and not all of the people who fell that way are Nationalist Nazis; far from it.
Oops, meant to mention, Daniel Mcgrain is in my prayers tonight. :-)) deffo off.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Roy Croppie, I wanted Neil Lennon to walk away after he was let down so badly by the justice system after the Tynecastle attack. I’m glad he stayed and faced down the hatred. He’s made of stern stuff.
My boy was sitting an exam this afternoon. He got home a four o’clock and I told him the news, he was gutted and I thought he was going to cry. His first words after the initial silence were “at least he’s well shot of the bigoted bastards now”.
From the mouth of a boy I’ve brought up without religion or prejudice and have encouraged to make his own mind up on every aspect of his life.
He saw it for what it was. I’m proud of that boy.
MadMitch
You’ve got a point there.
However his debut-which I witnessed live-was remarkable in the vitriolic outpouring directed at him. I was left in no doubt that a mouthy Irish Catholic was not welcome in these parts. Traynor blamed his peroxide hair but the litany of hate tells the story.
HH
JO’N @ 00.13
These things must come in 3’s.
Egypt
Ukraine
Thailand
When you don’t have votes a bit of revolutionary violence will do the trick.
You don’t have to win, do the hard work yourself.
Make plenty of noise and spectacle and the Army will do it for you.
Then the boys in khaki get brownie points for recreating order.
Job done — simples.