LENNON THINKS BURLEYS AN IDIOT ( SHOCKED ) WHO DOESN'T

LENNON THINKS BURLEYS AN IDIOT ( SHOCKED ) WHO DOSENT

Neil Lennon has hit out at Craig Burley after the TV pundit claimed that the Celtic players should be sacked if they fail to win the title.
Burley spent two-and-a-half seasons at Parkhead in the 1990s and spoke out after Nikica Jelavic was sold to Everton by Rangers.
The financial meltdown at Ibrox saw Ally McCoist unable to bring in a replacement for Jelavic, with seven players moving out and only the Swede Marek Celik arriving.
Celtic led Rangers by a point in the SPL with a game in hand but Lennon is taking nothing granted with a third of the season left.
Asked about the sacking quote the Celtic boss said: "That's a really good quote isn't it? It's something that punters in the pub would say.

Silly
"For someone who is an ex-professional, who now broadcasts for a company that follows the game and tries to enhance the game up here, he is disrespectful to the rest of the SPL clubs. It's silly, uncalled for and none of my players will be getting sacked.
"There are a lot of people outside the game looking in, who don't put anything into it and just want to talk it down.
"If you look at the players who have left (the SPL) in recent years, Alan Hutton for £9million, Craig Gordon £9m, Aiden McGeady £11m and Nikica Jelavic for six or seven, you wouldn't get those prices in the Championship, so it's not all doom and gloom.
"It's having a negative impact on Scottish football. These people have a platform and they influence people's opinions. A lot of the time, their responses are uneducated, they lack the information required and it makes them look silly at times, which it has this week."

 

well in lenny that tool needs put in his place

 

well said lennon and unlike burley he puts over an educated point of view

 

* right, we don't half * up our PR up here.

 

To be fair, what burley said is true. If we don't win the league, a complete overhaul is required.

 

Lennys really surpassed himsel

 

I thought burley was right but lennys answer is a belter tbf, * burley !!

 

Well said Lenny.

I disagree with Burley.

Rangers may be seriously weakened, but this is the SPL we're talking about, and they're still better than all the other teams in it.

Smith's side last year were not as good as us either, but they managed to grind out result after result against the wee teams, and they ended up with one of the highest points totals in the history of the SPL, despite us winning on head-to-head. We all know how that ended up.

This season is far from over.

 

Burley gets big money for 5% stating the obvious and 95% talking a load of *.

 

Well done to Lennon for coming out and putting Burley in his place. My feeling when I initially read what Burley said was that it was almost as if he was trying to heap as much pressure on the Celtic players as possible by saying what he said in such an extreme fashion.Maybe even in the hope that it might contribute to Celtic losing.
Certainly there is no question we are favourites at this point but to publically call for a whole team of pros to be fired from their jobs for something that has not happened is way over the top and well done for Neil Lennon in calling him on it.

 

Burley is a *. How many teams has he managed so he is just an armchair pundit like me and you.

Chased out of Celtic by the worst manager in our history, enough said.

 

I agree.

We should win it if we keep our bottle though.

 

see in reality if we can't win this year then it is not the players who will get the sack

 

I agree with Burley(*). He`s pretty much spot on for the first time since his rant about Diouf. Although Lenny`s not wrong either

 

what hope does scottish football have when its * like this who represent us in the media constant bashing of everything time they * of to england and stayed there with the like of hansen and that

 

Somebody petrol bomb his hoose! Sorry never meant that been spending too much time laughing at the inbreds over at RM! Lol

 

Good job Lenny. I feel like a lot of pundits, in addition to putting pressure on the squad, are saying things like this to diminish the title if we win it. But it's not our fault that Rangers management for the past decade and a half has acted irresponsibly. If they diminish our (potential) title, then they have to diminish all that Rangers won over the past years because they spent outside of their means and therefore put us at a disadvantage.

 

Yesterdays game will give the Bhoys a big lift knowing now that they can go to places like Caley ,Well and hopefully Hearts in midweek and get a win ,Celtic have struggled in the past going away to them but they strolled that game against Caley and it sets them up nicely for Wednesday night .

 

My reaction to Burley's comments was the same, it's unnecessary pressure at a point where squad confidence is at an all time high. He's who rags go to when Charlie Nic says "whoa not giving you that son that will land me in some hot water".