‘They’ want to get rid of him. Not all of them, by any measure, I’ve seen Neil Lennon welcomed as an old friend by some whose allegiances lie a long way from Celtic Park, but to some he represents an opportunity to indulge in the kind of prejudice which was once widely accepted in Scotland.
In this instance I’m not talking about the idiot football fans, there are lots of idiot football fans, just waiting for an opportunity to present their credentials. You can meet them wearing any colours. The people who showed their true colours today were in charge of stewarding guests at Tynecastle – and Neil Lennon was a guest.
It’s a horrible place. The day the flats are built cannot come soon enough. I expect a robust response from Aberdeen, as well as life bans. I expect nothing from Hearts.
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Just heading off oot to Mass
Those going ( to mass) this morning, please pray for Gerry, brother of our own poster Tom, who is desperately trying to get home to see Gerry, for what appears his a goodbye
Thoughts and prayers for both
Then
It’s onto. Celtic Park, and get behind the Bhoys and our own Neil Francis Lennon
Hail Hail
kevinlasvegas:
If we had had the balls to say no… we’re not going to sell our own for the crimes of yours…. It would have died dead right there. Lest what brought them there be investigated and analysed and subject to the courts of the land and Europe.
But for some God alone know reason we went belly up.
iPaddy McCourt
You were there yesterday so you know about the atmosphere whereas I wasn’t but your post fully support Paul’s comments for this article about lack of stewarding control at Tynecastle.
It is many years since I was at that place and I will never go back.
My experience of the old ground when it was terracing was of a serious crush to get out through a small tunnel and emerging onto Gorgie Road to be insulted and dodge missiles from the residents of the tenements with no protection or attempt by police to exert any control.
Perhaps it was the total lack of segregation but I found that place much worse than anywhere else in Scotland for Celtic supporters.
One of my very best ghirl friends (perpetual season ticket holder at CP) is married to a Hearts supporter and not all are bitter against Celtic but I dislike this club totally and celebrated 1986 probably more than any title win.
Yes – let there be more flats for sale in Edinburgh soon.
Good morning (again) friends from a disappointingly wet and blustery East Kilbride. But great to have a visit to Celtic Park to look forward to.
Hearts and the Edinburgh Police failed to protect the Celtic manager when he was attacked at Tynecastle. The fact that they allowed a repeat to happen yesterday shows that they are incompetent or knuckle draggers or both.
The Police in particular have failed as the Focus Group were installed to deal with precisely this type of behaviour. However there focus has been targeting Celtic fans. Yesterday they were probably in their office , screening videos of Celtic fans for the next series of dawn raids.
The overall policing of Tynecastle is the responsibility of Stephen House, who was probably on the M8 on his motorbike flagging down speeding motorists on his own copyright Sunday Times.
When will we have a statement from Police on another failure?
kevinlasvegas:
Bear in mind we are talking about Celtic PLC here, with some big names on the shareholders register, not Belfast Celtic.
I think we sold our soul, I’m not interested in how much we might have been paid.
kevinlasvegas supporting wee oscar knox
09:35 on 2 February, 2014
We have always had to box clever…….that’s why we are where we are today…….HH
Off for a wee swim, then onto the game……Neil will never walk alone…..
kitalba- This is what AFC will have to establish, they will know who was in the area.
But as ipaddy has confirmed there was very low security at this fixture.
The question has been asked if it were McCoist and McDowell sitting there would they have just been ignored? I doubt it.
AFC like any other club have their yahoo element.
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Where is the alacrity of the official Celtic PLC statement?
When are Celtic going to learn that the alacrity means much?
I Paddy-good insightful post but “It’s also wrong to portray Tynecastle as some sort of seething cauldron of religious hatred.” I’m afraid i can’t agree with that.I find Tynecastle on a par ,and sometimes worse than when we had to go to play a team that doesn’t exist any more.I do accept not all are like this .HH
goldstar10:
Every club has its maggots. What happened happened, I don’t know where Ally McCoist was and I fail to see how bringing his name into the equation changes anything.
What happened had nothing to do with Rangers or any of its employees or supporters, why even begin to entertain the notion to bring them into the equation.
kitalba
That’s why i think its been threats, strip it right down to a baser level. Its ma baw.
Thats how they operate
KLV
So now our manager cannot attend a high profile football match without being the target for morons? And the authorities, civil and footballing, are apparently powerless to do anything about it.
I hope our club will be writing to the SPFL, Hearts as hosts and Police Scotland seeking explanations of why this was allowed to happen. It seems that criminal activity took place in front of scores of witnesses. How many were arrested?
Or are we supposed to ignore incidents like this as just par for the course in the “greatest wee country in the world”?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/roberto-mancinis-man-city-pay-off-3103524
Mental
KLV
Just back from Morrisons,a quick scan of the rags,and to be fair the NL story is all over the front pages.Is Jack Irvine employed by Sky? I will listen to Off The Ball this morning to hear if it gets a mention.Stuart Cosgrove’s family is from Irish descent after all.
Aye, ok Kitalba.
The use of analogies is hereby banned on CQN.
Anyone know when Campbell will come out of his bunker to comment on this NL attacks or does he just come out to defend his beloved club when someone says they died ?
67 heaven,
A Celtic spokesman was quoted in a Daily Mail article.
Download ‘Roll of honour’. Yep, that’s going to stop the cycle of hatred. Too many Celtic supporters actually feel superior to the Orange element. Phil Mac is one example. He condemns the huns for their superiority attitude yet he is displaying the same tendencies.
We aren’t any better or worse. I’d like to thank the people who have challenged my comments as they haven’t resorted to insults or abuse. May it continue.
IPaddy,
Fine post.
From finbar67
Ally mcoist received more media sympathy for being called a pr*ck on twitter than neil lennon has for countless assaults and death threats.
StephenMartin27
McCoist demands to know names of sfa panel,which he already knew,nothing done.Neil spat on and hit with coiins,hes a controversial character
Will Neil Lennon be safe to attend Tynecastle on 22 February? He’s been attacked twice there. In the first case he was physically assaulted in front of a full stadium and large TV audience and the offender was allowed to get off without any kind of punishment. Yesterday he was assaulted again and nothing at all was done to protect him. It seems to be acceptable in the Scottish capital for the Celtic manager to be physically abused and nothing done.
I wonder who the Police Match Commander was yesterday? Someone should ask him why there were so few police. It seems to me that Hearts do not have enough money to pay for the stewarding required for a big football game. Tynecastle should be closed down by the SFA – not propped up.
If a person spat at,or spat on me, I would probably lose my temper and resort to violence.
When all is said and done, spitting at a person must surely be one of the worst things you could do.
I honestly don’t know how our manager puts up with this carry on.
If he does decide to leave the club, and that is a day that I dread – could you really blame him?
The thing that saddened me most is the so-called Celtic supporters on here whom attempt to vilify our own manager on a daily basis.
You know who you are, and yous are a feckin disgrace, even worse than the cowards that spat on him yesterday.
fritzsong
02:18 on
2 February, 2014
The treatment of Neil Lennon today is part of the shape of things to come if the ‘Yes’ people get their way. Scotland is the most bigoted part of the UK and an independent Scotland will intensify this bigotry. Meanwhile, the SNP will side with Edinburgh juries till Kingdom come.
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What, more bigoted than say…..Northern Ireland???? LMFAO!! How about Wales- setting fire to English people’s houses?? How about England and their persecution of blacks and Muslims??????? How about RC celtic fans in monkey suits abusing Mark Walters, or singing “I’d rather be a paki than a hun?????’ Or booing Nat anthem during paul McStay’s testimonial??? How about UK indians abusing UK pakistanis? UK Jamaicans abusing UK Africans? How about men abusing women, straights on gays???
It’s not only Scottish prods who can be idiots. North men south men comrades all – soon there’ll be no protestants at all…..
The actions of a few of the underclass in Scottish society (catholics and prods) is not representative of scottish society. Not that this opinion will fit in with many on here’s world view. Saor Alba.
Read the submissions of Celtic and Rangers to the Justice Committee for the OB Bill.
They boast of suggesting FoCUS.
Can understand Huns wanting Glasgow police brethren handling them with white kid gloves, but what was in it for us.
Given that FoCUS was a prerequisite essential for the OB laws that were still in embryo form Celtic were in this up to their necks. IMHO of course.
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The first rule of Analogy Club is you do not talk about Analogy Club, in the same way managers and players do not talk about what gets said in the dressing room
16 roads,
You are right. NL has been condemned on this site for some poor cup results. Little did his Celtic supporter critics consider the pressures which he faced when we lost some of those cup games. Has any other manager faced such pressures because of his ethnicity? We have many posters from different countries – perhaps they could enlighten us? There must be another parallel.
The report in the Sunday Mail has a photo of Neil,the guy sitting beside him looks like Billy Brown.It says Neil was moved to a seat near the Press Box ,after a coin hit someone close by.A plastic bottle was then thrown at him and landed in the Press Box.Clyde had 2 people there covering the game,they failed to report this(Radio Scotland did immediately) ,and they tried their best to ignore the story on the phone in,even though Delahunt said he seen reports on Social Media,and also said it had been reported on another radio station.Yeah,Glasgow and the West’s premier radio station,first with the news blah blah blah…..their Head of News and Sport has plenty of previous.
Hullbhoy
I will leave you with this
Aiden McGeady
Neil Lennon
James McCarthy
Abused by a nation.
Today’s Scotland on Sunday continues with this country’s Orwellian ‘journalism’.
They claim the thug who attacked Neil in the dugout at Tynecastle merely “shouted and swore at him”. Even when the glaring proof is on live TV these bigots comfortably re-write history.
john o’neil
10:09 on 2 February, 2014
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Belfast is the hate capital of Europe.
I life here, and I know which section of the community perpetrates 99% of the hate crimes.
They claim to be British, and originate from the best wee country in the world, hint hint.
But sure, we are no better, or no worse than them.
hen1rik
09:57 on 2 February, 2014Anyone know when Campbell will come out of his bunker to comment on this NL attacks or does he just come out to defend his beloved club when someone says they died ?
Of course he will,Hugh Keevins says “he’s a lovely man”
Neil is a hate figure for one reason and one reason only ….he is an Irish catholic doing a successful job for a club founded by Irish Catholics.
No matter which way they want to paint it, that is the “fact of the matter.”
Most of us have experienced bigotry, were be it in the workplace or socially. I always felt that some people thought… What do you expect your a tim!
Tony D,
Met Dessie last night at Johnny the tims mrs surprise 50th… Now, I’m not what one for holding back but his opening line to a hun that you maybe know was…I see craigy is back in town…priceless.
e=mc2 skiving at work….great post …i Paddy …great post….
there are a lot of numpties in this world ,get used to it ……spend your disposable income wisely….braw
Ipaddy and John Oneill
There is no place on this forum for your measured, rational and objective comments.
We must all hissy-fit, condemn Aberdeen FC, hate the city of Edinburgh, blame the entire police force, petition the Scottish parliament, boycott all away matches, download Roll of Honour, and most importantly – vote NO in the referendum.
Good Morning Timland.
Let’s wait and see if NFL/CFC issue a statement,I really
hope they do,we can’t put up with this sh#te,whether it’s
sectarian or not…..enough’s enough,btw there’s a game
today,hate how these bastard’s dictate the narrative.