Has Neil Lennon Always Been a Scunt?

Neil Lennon has long been a target of Ulster Loyalists. Goes back years
 
CelticBhoyCityBlue said:
bennyboy said:
TheHuddler said:
More tentacles than an octopus this story

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 ‘fuck 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.



It isn’t just the authorities who have been craven over the decades in the face of this, the left are equally guilty. In the wake of the last letter bomb to Lennon I tried to organise an anti-sectarian rally in Glasgow’s George Square but my erstwhile political colleagues deliberately scuppered it. There had to be a ‘balanced slate’, you see, not just Catholics or Celtic supporters – presumably a Church of Scotland minister and a former ‘Gers player who had recanted! – because it couldn’t just be about the victims. It wasn’t intended to be, but why the hell not! If Lennon had been black or Asian, or a Sighthill asylum seeker they’d have been out on the streets at the drop of a leaflet.



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.

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Songs sung by the Celtic fans last night.No winners from both fans last night.Moral high ground from the Celtic fans laughable.


– Ooh Ahh Up the RA

– Roll of Honour

– Off to join the IRA

- Oh the wee huns are shite

- Get the Brits out now

- Never Defeat the IRA

- Jim Jeffries is a sad orange *******

- IRA All the way, **** the Queen and the UDA

- Off to join the IRA

-Michael Fagan Shagged the Queen

-Go home ya huns
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So what you're saying Bennyboy is that due to the play list last night, the action of one of your supporters is acceptable? Maybe get your own house in order first eh? The Hearts support and their conduct is nothing short of disgraceful, especially after the Lennon incident. Yet your offended at some songs? Your team are shite and the support not much better than Rangers.

Was really disappointed with the songs last night, that was probably the worst for a long while. They aren't acceptable in a football ground, however it appears you and many like you can't take a step back and look at the bigger picture that this shouldn't be happening to ANYONE in football or sport, what makes Neil Lennon different?
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read my post again,no winners from both sets of fans last night.Sad night for Scottish football that both clubs should be ashamed of.Like every other who watches sport i have favourites and hate figures.Lennon is the later,nothing to do with religion,gingerness or anything else,just the way i find him a moaning gobshite who does not desrve what he is going through at this moment of time.
 
citykev28 said:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EIpwn3DuuI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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Subtitles of a hun no doubt. There is absolutely no way in hell he says "Fucking shite you orange bastard" No doubt, Lennon hates Rangers and their fans but when has Lennon ever shown himself to be a bigot? Not once.

Quite the opposite infact, all the pish against Lennon is because he once stated in an interview that he'd like to play for a United Ireland.

-- Thu May 12, 2011 7:56 pm --

citykev28 said:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EIpwn3DuuI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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Subtitles of a hun no doubt. There is absolutely no way in hell he says "Fucking shite you orange bastard" No doubt, Lennon hates Rangers and their fans but when has Lennon ever shown himself to be a bigot? Not once.

Quite the opposite infact, all the pish against Lennon is because he once stated in an interview that he'd like to play for a United Ireland.<br /><br />-- Thu May 12, 2011 7:57 pm --<br /><br />
citykev28 said:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EIpwn3DuuI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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Subtitles of a hun no doubt. There is absolutely no way in hell he says "Fucking shite you orange bastard" No doubt, Lennon hates Rangers and their fans but when has Lennon ever shown himself to be a bigot? Not once.

Quite the opposite infact, all the pish against Lennon is because he once stated in an interview that he'd like to play for a United Ireland.
 
i'm not suggesting anything with the video. i've never seen it until i came across it on hull city's forum earlier. i didn't realise he was at it with rangers fans as a player as well.<br /><br />-- Thu May 12, 2011 9:29 pm --<br /><br />i'm not suggesting anything with the video. i've never seen it until i came across it on hull city's forum earlier. i didn't realise he was at it with rangers fans as a player as well.
 
citykev28 said:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EIpwn3DuuI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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Its one thing if someone puts out something like this to satisfy their own biased musings. Its quite another when people attempt to use it as 'evidence' .....laughable

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That is that video I spoke of earlier.

Rangers fans jump on everything he says on the dugout and wrap whatever nonsense they want around it.

They tried to get him pulled up for racially abusing diouf whilst in the dugout. and nothing came of that.in fact diouf came out and said he didn't,but that's not good enough for them their response was that "he was trying to defuse he situation" yeah,diouf defusing the situation.

It is also worth noting that Busquets has been pulled up for remarks made which you cannot hear,only lip read.Funny that the same Hasn't been done to lennon.

If you want a snippet of the mindset of some people here is a group on bebo that one of the bombers is a member of :
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=10342855316&TUUID=d28128a3-1238-4391-8ab9-ac813c0bb9e7" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberI ... 813c0bb9e7</a>

77 members too..
 
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