Many Celtic fans have been talking about a tweet involving Neil Lennon that recently emerged on social media.
The club’s tweet involved Lennon and what he told the media ahead of Celtic’s Europa League game against Sparta Prague.
Lennon said that the Hoops have lost just one league game this year and this is a better start to the season than it was two seasons ago, when they had won the treble. He urged for everyone to ‘put a sense of perspective’ around the club’s current form.
Is Lennon right to compare this season to the 2018/19 season?
Yes
No
The tweet involving these quotes caught the attention of many Celtic fans. They made their opinion clear about what the manager had to say.
What did Celtic fans make of this tweet involving Neil Lennon?
Too much talking about the past from this man…
— Jed Marr? (@jedmarr8892) November 25, 2020
Completely lacking in self awareness
— AwNawNoAnnoniOanAnawNoo ????????? (@DarrenConway16) November 25, 2020
Don’t mention the giants of Europe Ferencvaros and Sparta. 11 points and about 15 goals behind the other horse in a 2 horse race. We all love Lenny but lets have just a modicum of perspective here.
— Doug Smith (@Skyseller67) November 25, 2020
Lennon pulling out statistics from when we were up against a poor rangers team to justify the quite frankly terrible start to the season, he’s clutching at straws
— Lee calderwood (@Leecalder1888) November 25, 2020
Celtic fan group The Green Brigade have already unveiled a banner outside Parkhead, demanding the exit of Lennon. Their statement claims that while he has delivered a lot of success to the club in the past few years, that shouldn’t be an ‘excuse’ for the club’s current form (as per the Daily Record).
The Hoops were held to a 2-2 draw by Hibernian recently. While they did beat Motherwell before that, they were held to a draw by Aberdeen and had lost the Old Firm derby (as per Transfermarkt).
Some other Celtic fans also began talking about Lennon’s comments.
He’s genuinely out here trying to compare himself to Rodgers it’s hilarious. Bringing up past seasons to try and make himself look better should be a clear sign that even he knows hes lost it. A complete joke of a situation. https://t.co/ebYi0OFg6r
— . (@_RH88_) November 25, 2020
If we won the games we drew , clutching at straws Lenny https://t.co/rNN39lZf7J
— Daniel (@danielmcp1999) November 25, 2020
This deserves a sack in itself https://t.co/jiDpSnEeft
— Declan (@Declanreilly23) November 25, 2020
What about all the embarrassing inept European displays, do they not count? https://t.co/0GP50QkK53
— Glokta (@Alfieshelby) November 25, 2020
These Celtic fans believe that what happened two seasons ago isn’t relevant now and Lennon is ignoring Celtic’s results in Europe.
It was Brendan Rodgers who was in-charge at Parkhead two seasons ago. On top of that, there was never a point in the 2018/19 season when the Hoops had won just a single league game in four outings.
More so, the Hoops are yet to win a single game in the group stage of the Europa League this season. In the 2018/19 campaign, Rodgers’ Celtic had beaten Rosenborg in the first game of the group stage of the competition.
This clearly shows that these two aren’t similar scenarios at all and Lennon is wrong to compare them.