Lennon claims swings “not normal”

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Lurgan bigot making digs at teams that have improved this season...




Celtic look to keep slim hopes of 10th consecutive title alive as bottom club Hamilton visit Celtic Park​

Neil Lennon sees parallels between Celtic and Liverpool, who have suffered a 30 point swing to Premier League leaders Manchester United


As Neil Lennon contemplated what have been the best and worst of times in his managerial career, he cited a tale of two cities by way of mitigation. The Celtic manager – whose players are at home to Hamilton tonight – supervised the completion of a fourth successive domestic treble by winning the deferred 2020 Scottish Cup final against Hearts last month, but defeat by Rangers in the New Year Old Firm derby eroded the already slim chance that the Hoops could achieve the 10th successive championship their supporters so ravenously desired.

The team’s subsequent warm-weather training trip to Dubai was rendered toxic by political point-scoring and the discovery that Christopher Jullien had tested positive for Covid-19, forcing Lennon, his assistant manager and 13 players to self-isolate during games against Hibs and Livingston, both of which were drawn. A further tied meeting with Livingston last week means that Celtic have yet to record a victory this year.

That said, the malaise affecting the team has been evident all season and Lennon suggested a parallel between events in the east end of Glasgow and at Liverpool, where the relationship between club and fans is regarded as similarly symbiotic. “I’m watching with interest how Liverpool are going,” Lennon said.
“There is a 30-point swing between them and Manchester United from this time last year. Now that’s not normal - it’s just not normal. Manchester United have improved but not to the extent of it being a 30-point swing.”

“Listen, I would not have enjoyed this season as a player. You thrive on the atmosphere. It brings the best out in you. We’ve talked for years of the European nights at Celtic Park where it lifted us to another level. The players have been bereft of that.”


“It’s not the total explanation but it is a part of it that there has been a flatness that comes from the lack of energy, atmosphere, rawness that normally the players would pick up on.”
Asked if that absence might have had the biggest effect on incoming players who have never experienced a full house on a high-octane occasion at Celtic Park, Lennon said: “The Celtic support is a huge selling point when you are bringing players in, especially players from a different environment, culture and way of playing football.

“They can’t go to a restaurant, can’t go for a coffee, be anywhere. It is just training ground or home. Some clubs have adapted better to it, some clubs haven’t and have clearly suffered and we are definitely one of those clubs that have.”

Without the allure and motivation of ravenous crowds and amidst a campaign that has unravelled for the defending champions, some Celtic players evidently had enough early in the proceedings, but Jeremie Frimpong was not believed to be amongst them until Tuesday, when it was revealed that the 20-year-old Dutch defender was abroad in talks - believed to be with Bayer Leverkusen - and that the Parkhead club had accepted a healthy offer for an individual who wanted out.
“This has been in the offing for the past couple of months,” Lennon said. “We offered the player talks for a new deal but he made it clear that he wanted to leave, despite our best efforts to keep him.”
“I feel a bit let down because we felt we could progress him further and we offered him a new deal which would have kept him here for another two or three years but it was down to the player’s personal ambition.”
 
Basically he is shamelessly blaming Covid for loosing a league ( he hasn’t actually lost yet) and forgetting that he was gifted the same league without completing a season and actually winning the fucking games required to win a league! It’s beyond laughable and it’s beyond a joke but this will be brushed aside.

100 thousand life’s gone and Neil Lennon blames that on loosing the league - shame on you ya c()nt
 
Some clubs have adapted to not having crowds better than others, eh Neil?

Ever the diplomat is this guy, doesn’t even have the class, nor the balls to just say rangers.

He’s very clearly been reading the mentally challenged twitterati and buying fully into the conspiracy nonsense they all spout.

He would have been as well saying that we’ve been caffeine doping the players and it’s just not fair etc etc.

Fucking nut job.
 
The team’s subsequent warm-weather training trip to Dubai was rendered toxic by political point-scoring and the discovery that Christopher Jullien had tested positive for Covid-19, forcing Lennon, his assistant manager and 13 players to self-isolate during games against Hibs and Livingston, both of which were drawn.
Nothing to do with political point scoring and everything to do with the fact Julien came back with Covid-19

Totally self inflicted.
 
A journo actually wrote this:


“The team’s subsequent warm-weather training trip to Dubai was rendered toxic by political point-scoring”
I actually had to check if that was a Lennon quote but nope, apparently calling out that it was a disgrace is 'point scoring'.
 
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I haven’t read the whole article so I may have missed the journalistic challenge/s but so far as I can see there is no robust questioning of his contention, ‘Neic, are you really saying that not having 50,000 Rangers supporters on 2nd January or at two games against Slavia Prague is why you lost all three?’ This is the type of questioning that happened in the all too dim and distance past and so far as I can ascertain in such as England and Spain. Nowadays the like of Lennon, and others it must be said (McInnes and Goodwin for example), seem to get very much a free ride to make statements or weekly column diatribes a la Commons and Provan, rather than being subjected to probing questions with something behind them.
 
They have been spouting this nonsense all season about how no fans has held them back.
Any old excuse. We have had no fans either and we have been excellent. Its been one disaster after another at Celtic this season and long may it continue.
 
We've seen plenty anger, he now appears to be in denial. Wonder if he will ever get to the stage of acceptance. There is definitely good players among his squad but modern football isn't the same as the game he played. You can't get by on natural skill and a bit of gusto anymore. You need to be coached by a tactically astute manager. Lennon is yesterday's man and an empty trophy cabinet at the end of the year will prove that.
 
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