Lennon to face 17 game ban?

The SFA are a joke

There are plenty managers who have said and done far worse and not been banned; heard someone say Neil Lennon should be more like Craig Brown ffs!!!

Aye, be like a guy who punched a foreign manager on the touchline, squared up to an opposing clubs chairman, sung dodgy songs down the phone to an ex burd while pished. What a shining beacon for Neil to aspire to!

No chance Celtic will take this lying down, time to kick some SFA arses once again!

 

He needs to take a chill pill.

In most other areas of life, if someone runs up to another scowling and snarling like he does when things don't go our way, then they get a fat-lip! Why are footballers and managers exempt from acting like normal human beings!

 

17 game ban is a * joke! I hate this corrupt country! Would love those * at the sfa to all fall down the stairs at the same time

* the sfa

 

This. It's a horrible way for anyone to act.

I honestly don't care if this happens. (17 seems unlikely but you never know.) He needs to learn to calm down. It's just a shame nothing has went in before this.

It'll give him peace to tweet during a game now.

 

While a lower league player got a 13-match ban for a similar incident. They used that as an example and pretty sure nothing was changed. It just showed the SFA for what they are.

There is no way they can hand out a ban like that. It's unheard of and totally unjust.
While I can agree that Lenny needs to calm down at times, look at the charges he's been brought up for.......LC final, "criminal" refereeing.

Hun game, calmly speaks to officials and gets a telling of like a little boy, and could say he was provoked by Brines yet still kept his cool.

SC semi, robbed by very poor refereeing again. There can only be so much one man can take before he'll crack, no matter what position you are in everyone has a breaking point.

All we hear is talk of respect and fair play but we never see any of that from the powers that be of Scottish football. Farcical doesn't even come close to it.

 

Why should Neil be punished more harshly than every other manager who has spoken about referees or marched onto the pitch (i.e Beardy McFud at the semi final) this season?

FFS Kenny Shiels more or less accused the ref at our recent game against st johnstone as being bias in our favour; "decisions loaded towards celtic"; that is worse than anything Neil has ever said yet what was the response from the referee's and the SFA? Nothing. But Neil complaining justifiably about a ridiculous penalty decision is apparently threatening the very fabric of Scottish football.

Is it any wonder he was angry on Sunday? That's three games now in the last month that refs have screwed us over; should have had a pen v killie, the Cha sending off at ibrox then Sunday. Is it any wonder he thinks its "personal" when guys like Dallas and Dougal suddenly pop up to slate Neil yet they almost never do it for anybody else?

Its a witch hunt and they won't stop till they have Neil banned for half the season or he decides to chuck it; besides, its about time Celtic gave the SFA another kicking, its been far too long!

 

And just totally demonizing our manager (which has been happening for 10+ years.
No wonder Lennon reacts at times. Again you can only take so much as a human before reacting.

 

This hasn't all been building up... Lenny has always been explosive and got in refs faces!

He needs to calm down as he's not doing himself, the team, or the fans any favours. Do you honestly expect refs to warm to us when they are regularly being abused and denigrated by our manager!?

If Neil feels that he's being picked on, then how about he utilises our (relative) embarrassment of riches / playing staff to ensure that match outcomes are NOT left in the hands of referees!!!

How sweet would that be!? Get victimised, but rise above it and beat it!?

PS - FWIW, I don't for a second feel that there is any longer a conspiracy against Celtic, but I do feel that Neils antics are turnings refs against him. It's only human nature! How would Lenny (or any of us) like it if the ref had come out post-match and said that Ki is a joke for missing his two headers... in fact, they were so poor that he suspects he was probably on the take as part of some far-east betting scam! Outrageous!? Yes! But that's just as ridiculous an assertion as some of the 'poor me' pish I've read on here this morning!

 

I actually burst out laughing when i saw this thread. 17 games are they taking the *?

 

What if neil resigns and celtic apoint him again, would a 17match ban still be legit. You know how the laws of teh land and game are, there might be a loop hole in there somewhere that we can pull something like this off

 

Agree that NL is passionate,has a right to be angry at some of the decisions BUT as someone said a while back, the worst Manager you can have is a FAN because he gets too involved. A Manager has to be detached because he is the figurehead, the face of that Club and sets the standard for the players to follow.

Apart from this, to me there is something going on at THE Club. Over the years in various businesses, I have seen people react in a 'vocal' manner, just before they leave,making their feelings known, just like Lenny. It's a 'I have been saving this for ages and as I am leaving, I am going to give it all' moment. So we shall see.

Any ban Lenny receives, ANY ban, punishes the Club, because the Manager cannot communicate with the dugout/team. So as passionate as he is and as vocal as he is, ultimately it is the Club that suffers.

OK Lenny doesn't want to talk to the Press. So where is Johan, who is the Assistant Manager. Why is it Tommo, the Coach that is doing the talking? Is JM leaving? Is he just marking time?

So for me there is something going on and it will all be come out in the wash. However at the moment, we have a Manager and a Club that is about to be punished for the actions of the Manager and an Assistant Manager that is noticeable by his absence. There's never a dull moment at Paradise.

 

nice one.

 

what a * joke only under the sfa could this happen and if it does happen then celtic should pull the team out of every cup competition and refuse to play in the league

 

I agree that he will probably win his case (not get off) re the Huns game, due to the "inconsistencies" of the evidence of the referee and 4th official. Will there be any action taken against these individuals for blatantly lying in order to ban Lenny? There's as much chance of the Newco being a non-sectarian club!

I think he will be censured regarding his remarks prior to the St. Johnstone game, with no ban. Interesting to note that I haven't heard Kenny Shiels being reported for the same situation prior to our last game against Kilmarnock.

With regards to the remarks re LC final referee, once again probably no worse than McHunCall who received no punishment, so using this as precedence I would expect the same outcome.

However, the latest situation will result in a ban due to a similar incident with Steven Pressley following the LC semi final when he confronted the referee (Euan Norris!!!) on the pitch. Pressley received a 4 match ban and a similar ban will be levied against Lenny.

Finally, I support Lenny in all he does for our club, but think he'll need to be cuter in his dealing with officials. There is no doubt that there is a mindset certainly within the referees association regarding him, so getting angry or outwardly criticising them, no matter how right Lenny might be, is only adding fuel to an already roaring fire of contempt that they have for him.

Also, there are a number of hacks who do their damnest to stoke the unwarranted hatred against Lenny through their columns and radio shows. Therefore, the time is now right to limit (zero) the interviews given to these individuals. We know they'll make up all sorts of BS as much as to deflect from the real shame of Scottish football, so let's not give them any information to twist. We'll soon see how long their editors will put up with no information to report on Scotland's No.1 club.

 

To those saying Neil Lennon is an "emarrassment"; was Billy McNeill an embarrassment?



How about Davie Hay?



Even Jock Stein had his moments despite the quote of his about referees that is always wheeled out. Here's another:

The idea that somehow it's just Neil Lennon who has had issues with refs and he isn't "acting like a Celtic manager" is clearly rubbish.

 

the media are trying to make this into another shame game and it can't be allowed to happen