Pat Nevin on the Lennon incident

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...em/9483415.stm

I doubt Nevin is going to be too controversial either and risk such a sweet gig that is being a tv and radio pundit.

spot on pat

one idiot is all it takes.

i remember the Dida incident, there was no orchestrated attack/death threats/bombs, just an idiot. (nothing like what Lennon/Celtic have had to put up with)

this **** is just escalating, so if you think Lennon is safe at football grounds in Scotland i'd guess you'd be in a minority of one.

i read a book about Belfast Celtic not too long ago, google them DorG.

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****ing hell where did Nevin find the balls to say that.

Graham Speirs on twitter has annoyed me a bit. He must be loving this secretly, he loves these types of stories imo (I'm a Speirs fan on the whole).

http://twitter.com/#!/GrahamSpiers

"Lennon retaliated-fact" that's one way to say it his earlier comments to say he "got wired in", "a fan, a manager in a fight" WHHHIIT, "nor did Lennon hold back" all are a bit more scathing for Neil Lennons conduct. Neil definitely booted him a few times within a second of him missing and he was quite right too. Saying he wired in is a bit strong. This was far more justified than that Prescott double jab back in the day, although that was fine too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HnC-...layer_embedded

check that out, typical i suppose.

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Jimi if you can twatter to Spiers, tell him from me that he is a ****.

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link to a real journo...

http://twitter.com/#!/McNallyMirror

Love the subtelty Speirs. We get what you are insinuating between the lines. What are you doing wrong? Come off it.

lol I thought that McNally was just a random. WTF at Derek Johnstone, it's as if Neil just booted a random streaker the way he's saying it. "man runs on...ohhh he's kicking him he'll be in trouble now"

I'm not actually on twitter but my ragemode might be engaged at Spiers and I might join (think i'm too lazy really tho). He posted again "Lennon issued a swift summary justice". Am I going mad? I think he's getting it a bit of grief already by people. I'm very curious to see how this is reported tomorrow. Will the papers play up the sensational "manager kicks fan" angle or adopt the commonsense approach of "jesus a man has tried to hook him and a half second later he boots him a couple of times" quite rightly. If Neil gets forced into a "maybe I shouldn't have kicked him in retrospect" statement I'm going to be furious. Damn right you should've imo

started already with the picture.

taken from BBC.

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read a few (one) articles by McNally, he's not afraid to tell the truth.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opin...cle727834.html

Lennon is well within his rights to have a kick at the idiot - he attacked him (from behind) and is without doubt fair game.

With regards to the Nevin interview, Pat touches on why Lennon is really hated throughout Scotland at the start of the interview but predictably takes the lazy option and marks it down to sectarianism.

If all of this madness that surrounds Lennon is down to sectarianism and/or anti-Irish bigotry, why did nothing of this nature happen to Martin O'Neill?

St.Mirren, Dundee United, Hibs, Caley Thistle and (believe it or not) many, many Rangers fans do not hate Lennon because he is a Northern Irish Catholic - they can't stand him because he is an aggressive and antagonistic individual.

If you fly with the crows...

your post reeks of "brought it on himself", grow up you moron.

same nonsense about O'Neill, forget him and talk about now.

nothing but bigotry and sectarianism fuelling the hate for Lennon, perpetrated by hun media and carried out by hun morons.

stop lying hun.

No, let's not.

It is a key point that shatters the myth that....

Why is it that O'Neill was not subject to the aggression that Lennon has been met with?

stop lying, bigotry and sectarianism are the only thing fuelling the hate.

your bull**** "brought it on himself" post clearly defines you.

**** you hun.

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O'Neill has nothing to do with the hate Lennon is getting.

Why was Aiden McGeady hated with such passion then? You can't say he was THAT aggressive or antagonistic but people where furious with him and he was pretty solidly demonized. I can't remember the amount of times I heard "he's a plastic paddy who thinks he's irish, etc" and "what's he playing at playing for Ireland". Do you think Michael Owen (welsh born) ever had to put up with the abuse he got? Of course not.

And for the reason Martin O'Neil wasn't hated is because he was an absolute politician and VERY canny when it came to the media imo. He never said anything that would stir anything up, always thank the fans and say Ohhh we did well and speak in blandish generalisms most of the time. (I love him but he did).

I'm not saying sectarianism is the only reason Lennons hated or sectarianism is that bad in Glasgow (I REALLY don't think it is as bad as it seems. Despite everything that's happened this season )

Tiftuk you had the nerve to insinuate that marty was being the bigoted one but actually you've just shown that you are very much the bigot here.

We can all read between the lines, Lennon deserves the treatment he gets etc. What exactly did Lennon do to deserve the absolutely disgraceful sectarian, bigoted treatment he recieves with absolutely no sympathy from disgraceful bigots such as yourself? Rather instead getting sure if you play with fire card when in fact the man is just going about his business. People like you make me physically sick. You are a vile person.

it's ok Jimi, it's not sectarianism/bigotry it's they just don't like Catholics especially uppity ones from Ireland.

I just can't believe this sort of ****. The man got friggin death threats because of the football team he played for. He now gets them because of the team he manages. But apparantly he deserves it because he is perhaps not the most likeable guy? He is nowhere near as bad as half the Rangers players over the last 10 years but you don't see them getting any death threats. Its repulsive the way Lennon is treated. Anyone who isn't united in support of the man against the sectarian bigotry he faces, like tiftuk is quite clearly a disgraceful bigot themselves. For shame.

Tell me the worst thing Lennon has done since becoming celtic boss.

Hate's a strong word. You seem to have a lot of it - you should take a look at that.

Lennon? .... I simply think he's an arsehole. (and fwiw, that doesn't mean I think he should be sent bombs or be attacked by fans).

Now, I know it's a question you would rather avoid, but....

becoming celtic boss.

i'm sure that was enough.

What relevance does that question have and why are you trying to deflect attention away from the fact you are a disgraceful small minded bigot who has the gall to try to tar others with the same brush?

i'd have been more than willing to converse with you had you been more civil earlier (taxcase thingy), but as it is i have to say GFY.

If it makes you guys happy to believe that I (and everyone else that dislikes Lennon) wants to see him attacked/blown-up, that he 'deserves everything he gets', then knock yourselves out.

In life, most of us learn from a relatively early age that aggresive behaviour attracts more aggressive behaviour.

'Most' of us are smart enough to play the game.

Not Neil Lennon.

Neds gonna ned, I suppose.

It's been answered anyway. Martin O'Neil was a master media manipulator imo and knew how to play the game with regards to his public image and all that. Coincidence that the most top 3 most vilified Celtic players of the last 5 yrs have all been Catholic? McGeady, Boruc and Lennon? How do you explain that then? Wonder why Scott Brown isn't super vilified the same way Lennon/Boruc were surely he ticks the aggressive windup merchant box (think of diouf incident amongst many others).

bigot gonna bigot i suppose.

what a lowlife you are.