TLB, "Fans statement laughable"

[Sparkle 53,569]

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The man does himself no favours

 

[kaiser1041 9,088]

Ignore him

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Neil Lennon: Hibs boss brands Club 1872 statement 'laughable'

By Brian McLauchlin

BBC Scotland

3 minutes ago

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Lennon was accused of "inflammatory" behaviour by a Rangers supporters group

Hibernian manager Neil Lennon has described a statement by a Rangers' fans group criticising his actions as "laughable and insignificant".

Club 1872, the second largest shareholder in Rangers, claimed Lennon made "various inflammatory gestures" to fans during Hibs' 3-2 win at Ibrox.

Police Scotland said no action would be taken against the Hibs manager. 

Lennon said he had not heard of the fans' group and thought the statement had been "written by a 15-year-old".

Police ruled out action after receiving complaints from Rangers fans about the former Celtic player and manager's celebrations at Ibrox on Saturday.

'Poorly overlooked by the mainstream media'

The Easter Road boss cupped his ears and made a gesture as he celebrated Simon Murray's first-half equaliser. 

Police take no action over Lennon

Managers' chief has sympathy for Lennon

"The fallout isn't my fault, the fallout is driven by yourselves [the media]," Lennon said. "I gave an answer to the question on Saturday after the press conference and said I celebrated the goal and that should be the end of it.

"Obviously, it wasn't. People are saying that there were complaints made to the police about me. But I'm sure there were various other complaints made to police about other things going on in the stadium and that wasn't reported." 

Responding to Club 1872's statement, Lennon said: "I've never heard of them. It looks like it was written by a 15-year-old - I was aware of it but I don't need to comment on it.

"We won the game. It's a massive distraction and deflection from what my players did and the way we set the team out and the football that we played.

"So, if it wasn't me it was the referee, which is fine, because people can comment on how they see the game afterwards. 

"They're entitled to their opinion. But from my point of view, we went to Ibrox, in a really hostile environment, stood up to the challenge and came away with a fantastic three points.

"That's been poorly overlooked by the mainstream media." 

The Hibs boss added: "Why is it front-page news? There's so much more going on in Scotland and around the world. There I find myself on Monday, on front-page news celebrating a goal. It's disproportionate."

'Draw a line under it'

Neil Lennon celebrates Hibs equaliser at Ibrox. Warning: Some people may consider some scenes to be offensive

Lennon is relieved that police decided to take no action and expects the Scottish Football Association compliance officer Tonny McGlennan to follow suit.

"As I said at the time, I didn't think I had any case to answer to and thankfully the police have seen that as well," he added.

"I expect that to be the case (with the SFA) and we draw a line under it. I didn't think my behaviour was over the top at all. Why I am being criticised for that, I don't know.

"I can cite a lot of people for what they do but I don't, I get on with it. I try to do with a bit of humour but people lose their sense of humour when they concede a goal against my teams."

[ForeverAndEver 71,467]

He's right.

Way too many threads on the fenian wank.

[Captain Hilts 12,819]

A clearly overweight ginger cunt wearing a skintight tracksuit is laughable. 

[Alves70 393]

We as a support give this no mark way too much publicity.

Best way to get back at him is on the football pitch and hopefully our players are fired up like never before next time we play diet celtic.

[Goianegra 4,682]

Statement just gave him the attention he craves, and he's lapping it up. 

[Getstiffed 8,863]

Only one thing would beat winning the league at the midden and that's winning it at the junkies ground right in front of that horrible yellow toothed ginger waste of skin and bone.

[Grundy 732]

He can't help himself, trying to get a dig in " Responding to Club 1872's statement, Lennon said: "I've never heard of them. It looks like it was written by a 15-year-old - I was aware of it but I don't need to comment on it."  I wonder who wrote that for him, he's not capable of thinking that up for himself.  He's the most repugnant, bigoted, figure I can think of in the history of Scottish football. Hibs will regret his appointment in the long run.

[With Heart and Hand 8,949]

There were other incidents that didn't get reported! This is being driven by the media! Yous can't handle a joke!

But it's C1872 that are behaving like weans

Hope we pump them at Easter road and every member of Rangers staff puts the fist up to the hibs fans

[With Heart and Hand 8,949]

Just now, Grundy said:

He can't help himself, trying to get a dig in " Responding to Club 1872's statement, Lennon said: "I've never heard of them. It looks like it was written by a 15-year-old - I was aware of it but I don't need to comment on it."  I wonder who wrote that for him, he's not capable of thinking that up for himself.  He's the most repugnant, bigoted, figure I can think of in the history of Scottish football. Hibs will regret his appointment in the long run.

He probably has someone ghost write his shopping list the illiterate ginger twat

[denya 1,661]

I hope when we play them at their ground and we score a goal I hope the player that scores the goal runs up to lennon and cup his hand behind his ears and give the arm gesture too and then we will see how that disgusting shit will react. 

[GOAT 30,449]

Statement just gave the cunt what he wanted.  It was embarrassing.

[LaudrupsPatrickBoots 13,510]

Agree with him tbh.

They are insignificant and it does look like it was written by a 15 year old.

[Sparkle 53,569]

43 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

Neil Lennon celebrates Hibs equaliser at Ibrox. Warning: Some people may consider some scenes to be offensive

The BBC posts this above the video of him.. but their commentators will continue to tell us that it was "just celebrating" or exuberance.

 

[Blueshoff 11,800]

PLEASE GOD NOT ANOTHER TLB THREAD!

[mrmojorisin 13,613]

SERIOUSLY..SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE CRETIN LENNON!

 

go and add this to one of the umpteen threads already going

Sick of seeing and hearing about this ginger oaf and frankly do not give two fucks what he thinks or says 

[centenarystand 2,227]

How many football managers carry on like this one?

I think it's fair to say this bloke is seriously mentally unstable.

[thebooler 4,509]

I hate to say it, but he does have a point.

In my opinion, the statement only diverted a lot of the flak from the highly incompetent referee.

 

[LaudrupsPatrickBoots 13,510]

1 minute ago, thebooler said:

I hate to say it, but he does have a point.

In my opinion, the statement only diverted a lot of the flak from the highly incompetent referee.

 

This 100%

[Gman36 3,455]

19 minutes ago, LaudrupsPatrickBoots said:

Agree with him tbh.

They are insignificant and it does look like it was written by a 15 year old.

I was going to say the same. Appallingly badly worded gibberish half the time. 

[LaudrupsPatrickBoots 13,510]

2 minutes ago, Gman36 said:

I was going to say the same. Appallingly badly worded gibberish half the time. 

You'd think with the amount of statements that get issued from our various fans groups they would have found someone capable of writing a decent one by now.

[Gman36 3,455]

2 minutes ago, LaudrupsPatrickBoots said:

You'd think with the amount of statements that get issued from our various fans groups they would have found someone capable of writing a decent one by now.

If this is the highest standard of statement we're capable of we'd be better off saying nothing. 

Folk in here lap up the shite The One Musketeer peddles... (I realise he's popular).

[Bluepeter9 5,167]

1 hour ago, Captain Hilts said:

A clearly overweight ginger cunt wearing a skintight tracksuit is laughable. 

Oih!  I'm not ginger...

... oh wait! 

 

[seb1972 40]

Can we stop mentioning the L word on here???