Ranger’s supporters have finally been given the news that they had been waiting to hear. Yes Celtic Manager Neil Lennon has confirmed that he has banned himself from talking about the only show in town: Rangers. In an interview with the Scottish Daily Record, he has stated that he is so fed up answering questions on Ibrox issues that he has put a gagging order on himself.
This is of course is the same Neil Lennon who before the outcome of the First Tier Tax case which cleared Rangers of any financial doping could not stop tweeting like a budgie.
“A journalist recently used the expression ‘financial doping’ (in reference to Rangers) and, for me, doping is a sporting term for cheating,’ Neil Lennon said.
“And, 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 there”. Daily Mail 17th February 2012.
Neil Lennon of course is no stranger to tax avoidance schemes having had a few alleged financial disasters himself.
Lennon made his point clear on having to deal with future issues. He added:
“From here on in I am not going to answer any more questions on Rangers because they are not on our radar.”
“If we play them in a Cup competition then I will be quite happy to answer any questions on the football aspect of things.”
“As regards all this stuff off the field, I have no comment to make on it whatsoever.”
The Rangers support will be hoping that they have finally heard the last from the Celtic manager. And one can only hope that the rest of the Celtic support takes a leaf out of their manager’s book and concentrate their energies on supporting their own team instead of obsessing over Rangers.
Only time will tell if Neill Lennon is serious about not talking about Rangers. Lennon likes to get the last word in an argument and we shall wait and see if he can hold his tongue. Dignified silences were never his strong point. What is clear in his statement is that he has told the press not ask him about Rangers, and they will fall in line like they always do.
However, if Neil Lennon does have one last word to say on Rangers then that word should be “Sorry”. If he is as principled and sporting as he would like us to believe, then he should man up and admit he was wrong. Rangers were not guilty of financial doping and for Neil to infer that this was the case is playing to the lowest common denominator amongst the Celtic support.
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Who is this Rangers you speak of Father Ted?
Maybe if the rangers tribute club stop trying to associate themselves with Celtic then Lennon can get on with managing his club, instead of constantly being asked about rangers by Scotland’s hopeless sports hacks.
Your in the 4th tier of Scottish football. Light years away from Celtic.
Deal with it.
Penn State, America = Celtic FC, Scotland
Its your kids I feel sorry for you disgusting bottom feeder 8 )
hahahahahahahahaha…..sevco nae money wankers..a look forward tae this years share issue…lol..
The only thing dead is the horse that savconians are flogging. Having bought into the narrative propagated by the likes of Lennon before the ruling of the First Tier Tribunal cleared Rangers of ‘financial doping’, they’ve failed to keep pace with the plot, and their continued wittering about Rangers being a new club – as opposed to a new company – is mere wishful thinking, a fantasy that so floats Kevin Barry’s boats that he fails to see the irony in posting that ‘nobody takes notice’ of Rangers. Savconions’ unembarrassed obsession about a club that supposedly doesn’t exist is risible, and I really shouldn’t rise to the putrid bait that’s been taken from the aforementioned dead horse. Maybe Lenny the Lamb is onto something after all …
Obsessed? Hahahahaha. We just love peltering uz fannies!!! Heeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaw. Liquidation looming again, least uv nae history to lose this time.
Honestly, Jim Traynor, we know it’s you!! How you get your bile posted is beyond me!!
Am I the only supporter of either club who’s starting to think the whole ‘you’re obsessed’, no, you’re more obsessed’ crap is getting old?
I suppose admitting that both our clubs have supporters who like to spend their time ‘infiltrating’ rival message boards in the hope of finding a nugget of sectarianism, which they can bring back to their own board, like a housecat might return with a small dead rodent, and presents it like a trophy thereby ‘proving’ its usefulness.
The fact that this has now extended to blogs and articles in what was once a decent footballing site is kind of depressing.
your article literally doesnt make any sense, all it tells us is that you are a bitter rangers fan…
Agreed, typical Cyberted attention grabbing headline that doesn’t relate in any way to the rant, sorry article.
Should of course have been “How Neil Lennon’s Sevco silence bugs the shit out of Chico’s acolytes”
Got around a paragraph in to this before the hurt was too much. You’re reaching.
i honestly bear no ill will towards neil lennon. one thing’s for sure, he puts a smile on my fizzer each morning. Will neil lennon have the balls to apologise after the S.P.L investigation into “ALLEGED” dodgy dealings at R.F.C is booted into oblivion later this month ? I think not. OH HAPPY DAYS.
celtic fans will talk plenty about rangers today coz the mighty st mirren humped them again!
lenny must stay.
go on stevie thompson!
can’t wait for the juve to stuff the altered bhoys!
mtan
Juventus!! Didn’t take too long for my earlier prophecy, to materialize. If you check the fixture list, you’ll see that you can cheer on Kilmarnock next..a wee while to go, until you’re a Juventino! Feeling your hurt! HH
Lenny has been eating Jelly and Ice-cream since Valentines day.
He should try some dental hygiene
You should try some penis hygiene ya filthy animal 8 )
There’s nothing really positive to be said about either this article itself, the author (who continually regurgitates tidbits of half-truths and out outright lies into an anti-celtic narrative) or the comments from both sides which frankly would make a sane person cringe at what passes for football rivalry in Scotland.
I wasted 10 minutes of my time reading this and feel stupider as a result. Newsnow has a lot to answer for, letting this appear on a list of Celtic stories – I’ve no interest in brain dead interpretations of some Sevco fan with a full fish supper on his shoulder. Shouldn’t you be providing tactical anaysis of the Montrose result or something instead?
From TSFM:
Under courtroom conditions (FTTT) the MIH/Rangers FC QC, Mr Thornhill, conceded that, where a side letter existed, the remuneration trust benefit to footballers was contractual.
As Rangers did not lodge any side letters with the SPL the complete Contract of Service was not submitted for players who had been given that additional benefit. Therefore, players who are found to have been issued with side letters must logically be found to have not been eligible to play in official matches.
Rangers understood that the EBT benefit was contractual with the issue of a side letter.
Rangers understood that all Contracts of Service must be lodged with the SPL.
Rangers understood that they were playing with improperly registered players.
Though the commission are not in any real position to punish the club – as they are now deceased – they must, at the very least, correct the result of each match where an ineligible player participated.
This is really, really simple.
WRONG WRONG WRONG !
In the case of the 5 players mentioned during the FTT, Their EBT payments were declared to the SPL.
But don’t let facts get in the way of your hatred.
Unfortunately Celtic did not declare their EBTs or the out of contract payments to Larsson, Sutton and Bellamy, sad isn’t it.
a hun…talking about a weeks old story about neil lennon…you peepul are beyond believable…..i wish i had the space , time and vocabulary to describe exactly how the rest of scotland see you half wit, inbred, knuckle dragging, fat, cheating, low life, scummy bastards……..chuckles is taking you all for a bunch of rides…and liquidation 2 is going to be a lot funnier for everyone the second time around….and you bunch of fools are bending over and parting your arse cheeks for him…….hell bloody mend the lot of you……i can’t wait for it all to come crashing down…how i will laugh…hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Were you abused as a child ?
Were you reformation.com/ lolololol you filthy swine
Leave the kids alone Eoin, You know it makes sense, What is the attraction between mutants and children. You sick perverted lump of filth.
Hugs and kisses Bheast
Dear deluded deranged subhuman swine I replied to your child abuse question you know the subject you cant seem to stop obsessing over stay off the smack and stop raping your daughter you dirty animal you know it makes sense 8 )
reformation.com/ wonder what that is mr man 8 )
ps….dundee utd fan….an advanced GET IT RIGHT FUKIN UP YE…………HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
OMG! …cyber fud shows himself up once again as being a bitter wee servco 5088 fan …
Listen …. I know it hurts that rangers fc is now dead and liquidated..
By how has this got anything to do with our manager?
The same manager who has been ….
Sent bullets in the post ….
Sent a dummy bomb package
Sent death threats
Attacked in the street
Attacked a packed stadium
Abused in front of his kids
Abused in front of his wife
Had death threats spray painted near his parents house.
Who got a terrorist warning not to pull the national shirt on again for the country he captained?
Why ?
Because he was a northern Irish catholic who dared to play for Celtic.
I wonder cyberted…
All these haters ? What team do they support?
Over to you ,,,,,,, TED
Are you for real or are you just a MOPE on over drive.
Lennon was attacked at Tynecastle by a HEARTS fan, He is hated by every set of fans in Scotland and further afield because he is an odious little rat, You starts fights and then plays the victim.
Maybe you should remember that Players like Novo, Lafferty, McCann were attacked in the street by Celtic fans, had their homes and cars attacked and were sent death threats.
Maurice Johnston’s father was slashed by a Septic fan after he signed for Rangers, But Hey ! Don’t let facts get in the way of your hatred and MOPERY
What pish you talk….
Bullets and bombs ….!
And mo johnstones dad?
Show me a link to the made up stories you spout ya walloper
The religious and political overtones were evident when the Belfast Telegraph broke the news in Ulster: a group of “angry loyalists” marched to their office and demanded they retract the unbelievable “fairytale” of Rangers signing a high-profile Catholic.
Whilst angry sectarian murdering IRA men just indiscriminatly bombed and shot women and children.
The same people that Boytouching FC fans sing about.
And in case(Once again) you are blissfully unaware Rangers FC signed and employed RCs from their inception. Unlike Celtic they were not a club based on religion.
Rangers had RC players before Celtic were even formed. Meanwhile, Celtic for most of their history managed to avoid players of a certain religion, Quite astounding really when you consider that these people made up approx’ 90% of the population.
If you are content to live in the past then you charge on, Meanwhile Rangers will continue to have RC players, RC captains and RC managers.
Here is a question for you, since you seem obsessed by players religions, How many Protestants have Celtic signed in the last 3 years ?
One enraged Rangers fan said that, “My blood is boiling. Is Mo Johnston going to run about Ibrox with his crucifix?”
Whilst others burned thier season tickets outside ibrox
Quite comical that when you consider that Rangers sold more season tickets than any other team in the UK that season.
Epic Fail Monkey Boy
Tell me about your fans intolerance to the catholic faith?
Or are you still looking for the story you made up?
Dads slashed ??
Lies lies lies
It’s like the….. Er Manchester police …Spanish police etc started on us for nothing ….
To euro finals shamed by your fans …
Only club to be presented a euro trophy in the changing room
You are not very bright are you Croppie ? Rangers were not presented with a trophy in a dressing room and The article where you stole the quote “a group of “angry loyalists” marched to their office and demanded they retract the unbelievable “fairytale” of Rangers signing a high-profile Catholic” also states that MoJo’s Dad was attacked and Mojo’s house was bombed by fans of IRA FC
Mopes are the poor wee plastic ulster scots scum underclass of uldagh havent you been wathing the news lately you inbred zombie bottom feeding low life 😛
That sexual trauma you suffered as a child really has taken its toll Eoin.
1 in 4 children in Ireland are abused by the local priest, The other 3 get fcuked by their Da.
A Priest, A Paedophile and a Celtic fan walked into a bar,,,, and that was just the 1st guy,
Bwhahahahaha I am here all week
Sex abuse with every post,you realy are deeply sick creature mr man.
Is that on your mind 24/7 or do you also fantisise about murdering woman then sexualy assulting them with pool ques like your loyalist vermin brethern in Uldagh ????
Alot of pedophiles are gay like johhny big sam micky stone sammy dudey you know all the sexual devients the pride of Uldagh gay pride im talking about those butchers from the shankill were sick sodomites aswell mr man 😉
Hey torbett didnt you used to work at iboaks why didnt your former employers keep secret your indescretions after they realesed you from employment did big richard get you a by ball 😉
Disgusting inbred vile insidious oxegen thief that is all mr man 8 )
lenny – this is just the beginning.
ho ho ho
mtan
I must say this is an absolutely sterling peice of unbiased journalism haha! You going after jabba’s job over at the haunted house?
HH
Delusional but funny. HH