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Chris Sutton L and Neil Lennon. We had hoped that Darrell Currie and the team would be able to present the coverage of both the Celtic and Rangers Uefa Europa League games live from Ibrox this evening, as we have done in the past.
Rangers have since raised security concerns and so we have had to change our plans. Become a Member. ThisIsGhod , Apr 8, I've wrote 'other', I know this wont go down well, but the reason being is the fact that so many non huns also hate the guy. Gotta laugh at the term 'hate' as they don't even know him.
I genuinely believe he has been portrayed in such a negative fashion that people get annoyed at even seeing his face in the paper. When you strive for better, you have to moan about something. Last edited by a moderator: Apr 8, StibyBhoy , Apr 8, From what my friends tell me, they dislike him for spitting and faking a headhutt against ICT. The hun friend hates him for being too outspoken and being a bad loser - never just taking a defeat, always blaming something else outwith his control.
No one i personally know hates him or has even mentioned hating him for being Irish or Catholic. I'm not friends with psychotic bigots though. Tony Ralston , Apr 8, The excuse most of my non Celtic supporting friends tell me is because 'he's a thug', which is complete nonsense. But I'd say all of the reasons in the poll are factors as to why he's hated.
The comforting thing is that the support he receives from the Celtic fans will always far outweigh the ignorant, idiotic and vile hatred. Callum McGregor , Apr 8, People I speak to, who aren't rangers fans, say they hate him because of how hot headed and arrogant he was on the pitch and managing. They don't seem to like how he questions every decision. Whereas I love that. I don't listen to people slagging him anymore, he's now done what a lot of people, including our own support said he could never do, win the league.
Haters gotta hate. DannybhoyCFC , Apr 8, I think alot of people just think it is Cool to not like him. When i asked this person how Lenny brought it on himself,they said he just does I think alot of people have this image planted in their head that Lenny is a big bad wolf,always snarling and picking fights.
The reality is,Lenny is a passionate Celtic man,he stands up for the club he loves,and points out when others are trying to do our club harm. Alex Ferguson has been doing it for years,but he is a Darling of the Media mostly because he is a Sir. At the end of last month a year-old man admitted to Edinburgh's sheriff court that he had assaulted Lennon during a football match in the city in May between Heart of Midlothian and Celtic.
The miscreant could hardly have pleaded otherwise; 16, spectators and millions more watching on TV had witnessed the incident. The perpetrator spoke of his remorse and told the court that he had written a letter of apology to Lennon.
The jury, however, found that the assault charge was not proven and that he had merely been guilty of a breach of the peace. It is one of the few occasions in Scottish legal history when an individual is acquitted of a crime that he freely admitted carrying out. A joke rapidly emerged that Colonel Gaddafi had offered to surrender to Nato if he could be guaranteed a trial in Edinburgh.
Until now, the Celtic manager has largely kept his own counsel on the maelstrom that engulfed him earlier this year. I encounter him behind his desk on the upper floor of the club's sleek training facility, set among the splendour of the Campsie Hills 10 miles north of the city centre. He is still in his dark tracksuit after a two-hour session with his squad and at 5ft 8in his squat frame and cropped red hair suggest an amateur boxing trainer.
His words are considered and each sentence is weighed before he delivers it in a soft Ulster accent. He has an unnerving habit of adopting a longish pause before answering each question and looking directly at you, as if he is asking if you can be trusted not to distort or misrepresent.
He seems at ease with himself and glad that he has made it unscathed to the start of a new season. But he remains angry and not a little bitter at what he had to endure a few months ago. At first I thought it might just have had something to do with the fact that I was an expensive signing from the English Premiership.
That would have been OK. But I became aware of something more sinister when I played for Northern Ireland as a Celtic player for the first time. Before then I had represented my country 36 or 37 times and had enjoyed the full support of our fans. Now I was aware of being jeered by our own supporters every time I touched the ball.
Some writers said that it was because of my combative style, but I only received two red cards in seven years playing with Celtic and I had never received this treatment while playing in England for three different clubs. Lennon is a passionate man who, only with some difficulty, masks his emotions.
When Lennon is angry he seems to snarl and bare his teeth. Sky's ubiquitous TV cameras captured just this look in the aftermath of a replayed Old Firm cup-tie in March. A lot had been riding on the match; Celtic had developed the upper hand in recent Old Firm clashes and Rangers were under pressure from their supporters to win.
It wasn't the roughest game these two have played, but after a narrow Celtic win, eight Rangers players had been cautioned and three sent off. At the end of the game the cameras closed in on Lennon and his Rangers counterpart, Ally McCoist , about to greet each other at the final whistle.
In the space of five seconds, the following happened in chronological order: Lennon shakes McCoist's hand and smiles in commiseration; there is a brusque exchange and Lennon adopts his Rumpelstiltskin visage; a mild scuffle lasting a moment ensues before each is huckled away.
No more, no less. Within 24 hours Strathclyde's chief constable has phoned Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, and something called a "sectarian summit" of concerned politicians and officers of each club has been organised.
It took almost as little time for Cobra to be convened after the al-Qaida attack on Glasgow Airport in After the game I took exception to something that was said and a very brief scuffle took place. It was nothing. Does this though adequately explain why so many people apparently want to harm him? After all, Lennon's former boss at Celtic, Martin O'Neill , comes from the same Northern Ireland, Catholic background as him and never encountered anything remotely comparable.
In the years since this fixture was first played there have been sporadic alarums to exercise the civic panjandrums. On these occasions there is an unseemly dash to occupy the moral high ground and speak portentously of Scotland's dirty little secret.
What had been a keenly contested but otherwise unremarkable city derby for around 25 years developed its sectarian edge when Celtic, the pride of the Irish diaspora, dominated Scottish football in the decade before the Great War.
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