Neil Lennon stands down as Celtic manager....

Reckon he'll be a flop wherever he goes next.

west brom or norwich

Must have a job lined up and i think he'll be a success in EPL probably with Norwich or Newcastle ?

No manager worth his salt would go to Newcastle, I certainly couldn't see Lennon working for Ashley.

wherever he ends up will be a test for him to see what kind of manager he can be - at Celtic he was guaranteed to win the league - didnt do well in the cups this season for me as a celtic fan sometimes waits to long to make some changes - wish him all the best tho

had a hard time up here, good luck to him, wasn't everyones cup of tea but had to deal with some horrible situations.

If by some miracle Lennon did go to Newcastle maybe he'll appoint Alan Shearer as his assistant.

What a life it must be being an Old Firm manager,just trying to do your job whilst having to watch you and your family's back every single day.Can't blame him for leaving,gl to him.

Some English club have made a massive mistake, he achieved nothing special at Celtic bar the Barcelona win and even that was the well used template of sit in, give them the wide areas and hope for a set piece. The last qualifying rounds for the CL must of gone down as the easiest in history and he still managed to nearly make an arse of that.

Celtic could end up with a far more able manager. Mind you if it's Larsson

Celtic should have easily won 2 trebles the previous 2 seasons with no competition after the demise of Rangers.

The club have no players in the squad good enough to wear the jersey and Lennon not good enough as manager either.

Most of the troubles that he had he brought on himself.He's an out and out idiot.Good riddance.Whichever club takes him on will be buying a 'pig in a poke'.

he's  thick and will almost certainly be a complete failure wherever he goes next

Great news. Absolutely chuffed with that.   Hopefully we'll get a decent and experienced coach.

Yup he certainly brought those bombs on himself. Should have dyed his hair maybe.

RijKaard is out of work

Sad news

Moyes 4/1

Moyes too busy counting his payoff

Good luck to him, wherever he ends up. Unlike certain other managers, Lennon put the club's best interests first.

May 22, 2014 -- 1:52PM, TheChaser wrote:

RijKaard is out of work

Frank Rijkaard at Celtic - more chance of Frank Spencer

Paddy powers have got Pope Francis at 500's if anyone wants some of that

nasty angry ginger..talentless.

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Celtic should have easily won 2 trebles the previous 2 seasons with no competition after the demise of Rangers.

The club have no players in the squad good enough to wear the jersey and Lennon not good enough as manager either.

Because trebles are just part of life

Atletico Madrid spent 60 million to get the Spanish league title and final of the champions league.
McCoist spent 60 million to get the new rangers to the final of the ramsdens cup.

is it too late for barcelona to change their mind and give lemon the gig?

Lennon was in a no win situation. Win the league and it is expected. Don't win everything and it's a failure.

If you look at what he has really done for Celtic then it is not bad at all. Forgetting the leagues as they were expected, look at the Champions league money he brought to the club. Then add to that the money he made from Wanyama and Hooper. Then the money they will eventually make on Fraser Foster. Yes there has been a few bad buys along the way but over all giving the circumstances, he's left the club in decent knick. That isn't to say Celtic are a good side, just that he deserves some credit. Plus he wasn't actually doing this under normal circumstances. He had constant death threats and nail bombs sent to him etc and lets not forget the jakey jambo that attacked him on the sidelines on a live televised match at Tynecastle

Where ever he goes he will not face anywhere near that kind of pressure, gl to him.

thats right starfish.. the jackeyjambo..who wee ginge tried to boot in heid as he lay on the deck

Stevie Clark would be my No.1 pick, but I think it'll be Coyle.

rather clarke over coyle anyday

get coyle to fook

In order of preferance I'd take

Michael Laudrup (not realistic prob, but would be top pick otherwise)
Stevie Clark
David Moyes
Tim Sherwood
Malky MacKay
Jackie McNamara



and please god no.....Roy Keane, Paulo Di Canio, Paul Lambert 

be good to get a decent foreign coach in with experience but they wont come with the money the board will give them to strengthen

Be Henrick or a Scotsman. Clark would be interesting

far too early for Henrik. Let him learn his trade.

My preference would be for Moyes. Won't cost as much as he would pre his Man U move and he would be best equipped for the job imo.
He was on a hiding to nothing following Fergie. Great time to get him. He'd be champing at the bit to impress as well for his own reputation. Could be a marriage made in heaven

I'd be very happy with Moyes. Tho I always had him pegged for the Rangers job at some point.

the board want as many season tickets sold as possible , henrik fits the bill

Henrick does fit the bill. Leagues almost guaranteed and he will cost peanuts compared to a 'name' be a fans fav too

i reckon henrik also as its the only person who will come in for parkhead to be buzzing

moyes/carke etc will hardly send shockwaves through parkhead but with the king it would defo get more season tickets sold

and we ll know the board want that to happen , if its true lennon left because he wasnt going to get the funds to strengthen then we cant expect to really get any experienced coach in

From a betting point of view i would be interested in Moyes, McKay, and as a live outsider, Roy Keane.
p.s. It was nothing to do with budgets why Neil left.

Chaser - Celtic should have cleaned up all domestic trophies playing against Conference level sides every week.

No excuses really

It was obvious from the moment he appeared on MOTD that he was on his way. Came across very well as a pundit, and starts to get linked to Norwich/West Brom job etc and now leaves Celtic just before his reputation takes a hit as the result of not making the CL group stages next season. It was all very well planned and executed tbf to him.

Will the World cup still be going on when celtic play their first Champs League game?

I dont think moyes would be the worst man, i however would prefer laudrap but fu ck all chance of that

Well he aint going to Norwich. They've appointed Adams.

danny lennon ex st mirren looking for a job

no doubt a few burnt fingers with adams getting the norwich job

danny lennon

to be fair im a gers man but lennon did a superb job at tic

he deserves a good job. wish him well

maybe wba

He's not going anywhere yet. This is what'll happen.
After a bright start to their EPL season, Leicester City start to struggle and before long look in trouble. Owners panic, sack the manager. In steps Leicester legend - Neil Lennon.

There really is no excuse for Celtic not winning all 6 domestic trophies in the past 2 seasons following the demise of Rangers.

Lennon should have been sacked for losing a home cup match against Morton - yes a team thumped 10-2 by Hamilton in the final game of the season.

The competition up North is about mid table conference standard for 2-3 clubs and the Conference North and South for the rest in the Scottish Premiership.

Lennon has achieved nothing special and even poor clubs such as Granada occasionally achieve good results against Barcelona.

Has Lennon left behind a stronger squad than the one he inherited?

Think he has left behind a squad with not one player good enough to be wearing the Celtic jersey.

I think you will find that 10-2 drubbing to Hamilton was one of the biggest fixes in Scottish football. Had Dundee not have won their final game to win the league that match and Morton would have been investigated.

FWIW I like many others would have taken the champions league group stages, the last 16 and the win over Barcelona before any domestic cup. The difference in money between them is huge.



Has Lennon left behind a stronger squad than the one he inherited?

Yes, by a country mile. Celtic were a laughing stock under Tony Mowbray, getting 4-0 drubbings from the likes of St.mirren etc

Granada's shock results were in the league. Celtic's were in the CL and worth 10+ million for qualifying to the next stage.

Lennon should have been sacked for losing a home cup match against Morton

Thank God man u didn't sack fergie for losing to Southend or York in the cup eh

Think he has left behind a squad with not one player good enough to be wearing the Celtic jersey.

Their keeper if off to Brazil with England for the world cup. Efe Ambrose will be there with Nigera. Lustig is a Swedish international, Virgil van dyk is a dutch international in the making, Charlie Mulgrew, Scott Brown all good internationals. Kris Commons was excellent this year.

But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story

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There really is no excuse for Celtic not winning all 6 domestic trophies in the past 2 seasons following the demise of Rangers.

Lennon should have been sacked for losing a home cup match against Morton - yes a team thumped 10-2 by Hamilton in the final game of the season.

The competition up North is about mid table conference standard for 2-3 clubs and the Conference North and South for the rest in the Scottish Premiership.

Lennon has achieved nothing special and even poor clubs such as Granada occasionally achieve good results against Barcelona.

Has Lennon left behind a stronger squad than the one he inherited?

Think he has left behind a squad with not one player good enough to be wearing the Celtic jersey.


If you watched the Celtic and Morton game you would know Celtic dominated the whole game and had about 30 shots but Morton defended like a most teams should at Parkhead.

Also you keep going on about the demise of rangers so Celtic should have 2 trebles , So should Rangers have got 9 trebels in their 9 in a row campaign? Celtic only won i think 1 scottish cup and and 1 league cup in that whole 9 year.Trebles dont just come that easy

How many trebles did united get with fergie when no one was near them?

Celtic had 25 shots to Mortons 3 , Goalkeeper made 18 saves , should we not give the Goalkeeper some credit here

27 corners to celtic and morton 2  , sometimes its just hard to break teams down like barca found out against celtic in 2012

chaser mate who would you like to see the tic bring in as manager?

With the people in the running just now has to be Henrik , But Rijkaard is out of work as i mentioned earlier

fck moyes

malky is championship proven only and so was mowbray so we shouldnt even look at him

steve clarke i would be ok with him

well mogga got relegated also , but for all we know malky could have also

henrik would be a crowd pleaser

be good to see him back in scotland

thats why i think hel get it , as everyone will be happy

with anyone else thats on offer it could be risky for ticket sales

Larsson won't get it according to reporter on radio Scotland, said yesterday he's not even in the frame.

celtic had an opening day for 4-14 year olds today , they where aloud to play on the pitch , £70 thats robbery and they have it tomorrow as well

thats just getting the £100 back from the season ticket reduction

owen coyle 2nd fave

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In order of preferance I'd take

Michael Laudrup (not realistic prob, but would be top pick otherwise)
Stevie Clark
David Moyes
Tim Sherwood
Malky MacKay
Jackie McNamara

I forgot to add that the poster is having a laugh.

Why would you add that?

Moyes doesn't have the ability to run a big club imo.

Moyes would do a great job at Celtic. Far better manager than Coyle, MacKay, etc.
Sadly he won't come to Scotland

Henrik would be a disaster at this stage, but there's no telling a lot of blinkered celtic-minded fans.

Well, its a final goodbye to the `WOOLUF`



He may have more leisure time at his disposal?

Word is he is on his way to brighton, not sure if it has been mentioned on this thread as cant be arsed to go through it

The increasing army of green plastic seats at Celtic Park year by year says it all about the progress of Celtic FC under Neil Lennon.

No excuses at all for being defeated at home by Morton FC.

Hopefully Celtic and all other clubs in the Scottish League can find managers that can actually improve a league that has fallen well below Mickey Mouse level.

Fans should not tolerate the poor football provided by managers such as Lennon and McCoist.

The same old recycled managers and coaches are holding the game back up there.

Yep! its been jobs for the boys for donkeys years up here, level of coaching in our country is atrocious, people are fed up watching.

According to todays dailies Di Canio is throwing his hat in the ring. He would go down well in an old firm encounter

Di CaniNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Remember Di Canio was a great player, a very good manager at Swindon and kept Sunderland up last season when all thought they were down.

He would be a big improvement on Lennon and would replace nearly all of the current squad who really are not good enough to be playing for Celtic.

Nonsense ^

Up there with your mate getting offered £300 a week to play for Inverness CT comment.

owen coyle odds on

He talks a great game. Great for the media according to Sky Sports.

these scots all seem to talk a great game

i want to know what coyle knows about european football

please let it be owen coyle

You'll be oot by early August so what does he need to know.

Rangers fans must be praying for Lennon to change his mind.

Lennon leaving doesn't add up.
Told the players two weeks ago that he was going nowhere. Rumours of a major bust up and Lennon being forced out doing the rounds.
Any of you septic minded bhoys aware of anything?

Polite replies only please.

Owen Coyle that would be funny

Neil Lennon's persecution shames Scotland

The catastrophic lack of action by the authorities to protect the former Celtic manager is a disgrace

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Neil Lennon, Celtic's ex-manager, has been let down by many sections of Scottish society. Photograph: Scott Heppell/AP


Now that the departure of Neil Lennon has been announced, it is time to ask why enlightened and progressive Scotland treated him in such a vile manner in each of the dozen or so years he spent with us. The resignation of a Celtic manager ought only to be the subject of scrutiny on the sports pages, with his success rate and football legacy being picked apart and compared with others who have occupied that seat. Such, though, has been the universal hatred to which this young man has been subjected in every part of Scotland that any interpretation that fails to analyse why is immediately rendered meaningless. Neil Lennon is, quite simply, the bravest man in Scotland.

Lennon was that rare thing in the world of team sport, a highly skilful player who immediately went on to become a very successful manager. From 2000, as his career in Scotland progressed, it soon became apparent that he was being abused and vilified at almost every away ground he visited. Something other than football rivalry was being expressed here and it was becoming ugly to behold.

In matches against Rangers FC, then Celtic's oldest and fiercest rivals, the abuse was almost unbearable and on one occasion Lennon's manager, Martin O'Neill, put a fatherly arm around his shoulders and marched him halfway up the pitch as if to say: "I know what this is about, but this is my son and we will always support him." Lennon, you see, is a Catholic from Northern Ireland. He has red hair and a belligerent onfield demeanour that brooks no compromise. He never backs down. And then of course, he played for Celtic FC. For some in Scotland, this was a toxic cocktail that deserved a violent response.

In his time at Celtic, Neil Lennon was the victim of almost a dozen assaults and attempted assaults. On one occasion, he was kicked to the ground by two assailants outside his favourite wine bar in one of Glasgow's most desirable neighbourhoods. Most famously, he was attacked on the pitch in Edinburgh by a supporter of Heart of Midlothian. The incident was witnessed by millions watching live on Sky TV. In what must have been a world legal first an Edinburgh jury subsequently cleared his assailant.

Three years ago, two men from Ayrshire tried to blow up Lennon and his family by sending him a parcel bomb. A judge convicted them of a lesser charge. Others had attempted to send him bullets in the post. He was forced to stop playing international football for his beloved Northern Ireland because he and his family began to receive death threats immediately following his move to Celtic.

During Lennon's 13 years in England as a player for Manchester City, Crewe Alexandra and Leicester City, there hadn't been a single controversial incident involving him. As soon as he pulled on the green and white hooped jersey, he became a marked man throughout Scotland and subjected to a persistent and egregious litany of hate. Since 2011, he and his family have received round-the-clock police protection at home and at his children's school. During this time, Lennon was badly let down by every major organisation in Scotland that would normally have been expected to intervene as this extraordinary campaign of personal vilification was being played out before them. Let none be in any doubt about this: Lennon was hated for his religion and for his country of origin. Too many Scottish football writers either chose to ignore what was happening or, worse, tried to justify it by saying that, by dint of his belligerent demeanour, he brought much of it upon himself. They conveniently overlooked the fact that Lennon had an exemplary disciplinary record and never criticised opposing teams or managers. Away from football, he lived quietly and openly in Glasgow's West End, where he enjoyed the company of supporters in the wine bars and restaurants of that neighbourhood.

The Scottish government simply chose to look the other way while a migrant worker in Scotland was being racially abused in front of them and the Scottish Football Association refused to intervene. Indeed, on the only occasion that they did so, they hit Lennon with an extraordinary ban as punishment for reacting angrily, but not violently, to something uttered quietly by Ally McCoist, his Rangers counterpart. You got the impression they had been waiting to do that for some time.

Meanwhile, the government, in a gross act of cowardice, decided to use that incident to show that it cared by organising an utterly worthless and meaningless summit on sectarianism. Yet it had nothing to say about the campaign of abuse that Neil Lennon endured in this country. No anti-racism body ever came to his aid. There are some who claim that Scotland remains an anti-Catholic country, but it's not really.

Nor is this about Rangers FC, that once mighty bastion of the Scottish Protestant hegemony. They have routinely been employing Catholics for years and participate fully in anti-sectarian projects. Rather, there is still a sizable remnant of Scots who cling stubbornly to old ideas of religious and cultural supremacy and who regard the Irish as an inferior race.

The pillars of their existence were the Church of Scotland, the Conservative party and the reserved professions where Catholics were once told politely they need not apply. These have all either disappeared or been rendered meaningless. The Catholic Irish, meanwhile, have emerged confidently from discrimination and deprivation to play a full role in modern Scotland. For some, the pace of change has been too much. Neil Lennon arrived at a moment in time and became the sum of all their fears and insecurities. This is not to excuse or justify, merely to offer an explanation.

In the 1955 film Bad Day at Black Rock, Spencer Tracy goes looking for justice in a small American town with a secret. Eventually, he finds it and the town finds redemption. Political, cultural and civic Scotland has yet to explain its failure to protect Neil Lennon. Until it does so, it can never fully be redeemed.

Maybe he had enough of that crazy city and decided 3 in a row was good enough ?

@IrishSeptic

What a load of codswallop
Surprised you believe that although I suppose if you believe in a zig-zagging sun you'll believe in anything.

Lennon stated tat his reasons for leaving septic are nothing to do with bigotry.

He won't be missed by Celtic or Scottish Football.

stopped reading when i got to  skilful player and checked who wrote it ,Kevin Mckenna the ex Celtic Fanzine editor ,ex herald ect

Surprised how poorly written an article it is tbh .

You could drive a bus through it BnB

.............. bit it panders to the likes of irishseptic.

It touches a nerve eh ?  Bit too close for comfort?

Couple of posters on here who can identify with the article.

In fact they are so bigoted that one of them will only refer to Celtic by the name "Septic" while another refers to Neil Lennon in words and pictures as a werewolf type figure i.e. inhuman I guess is the idea. Read the article see the bigots. Scotlands shame.

Aye sure. Oh dear. Nothing positive to post?

I don't know who wrote this rubbish but it was obviously some bigot.

a highly skilful player who immediately went on to become a very successful manager.

a very ordinary player who kicked other players and was loved by the tic support because he was a bigot like them.
as for successful manager, he couldn't win the league until rangers imploded. 


he was being abused and vilified at almost every away ground he visited.   
During Lennon's 13 years in England as a player for Manchester City, Crewe Alexandra and Leicester City, there hadn't been a single controversial incident involving him   

the bigots like to pretend that this only happened up in scotland but my english mate who supports notts forest told me that lennon was one of the most hated players in english football because he just fouled all the time and tried to wind up opposing supporters. 



In his time at Celtic, Neil Lennon was the victim of almost a dozen assaults and attempted assaults. On one occasion, he was kicked to the ground by two assailants outside his favourite wine bar in one of Glasgow's most desirable neighbourhoods. Most famously, he was attacked on the pitch in Edinburgh by a supporter of Heart of Midlothian. The incident was witnessed by millions watching live on Sky TV. In what must have been a world legal first an Edinburgh jury subsequently cleared his assailant.

lennon is an abrasive character and regularly went looking for trouble.
remember when a rangers players was attacked in a chip shop following an old firm game and when jorg albertz house was attacked by celtic fans following a rangers victory. 
remember when rangers won the league at celtic park and the celtic fans attacked the rangers players throwing bottles and cans at them as they left the pitch and nobody did anything about it.   


He was forced to stop playing international football for his beloved Northern Ireland 

it was never his beloved northerm ireland.
he was booed by northern ireland fans for suggesting that northern ireland shouldn't have a team and that their team should be part of the ireland international team.
this booing was used by bigots to pretend that he was hated because he played for celtic instead of the fact that he wanted the northern ireland team disbanded.


The Scottish government simply chose to look the other way while a migrant worker in Scotland was being racially abused in front of them

please explain how a british citizen in britain should be referred to as a migrant worker.   


surely if the scottish government really want to rid the country of sectarianism then they need to start with the bigot that wrote this very sectarian piece.

Ah yes - in other words " He brought it all on himself "

The favourite line of the bigots in recent years.

Your response is so full of blind hatred ,jealousy , and bigotry it makes me feel physically sick.

@irishseptic
There is no bigger bigot on here than you and your blind hatred jealousy spills out in every post you make.
As for Llennon well spitting on the Rangers crest at Ibrox and calling the coaching staff orange b******s hardly endeared him to the Rangers fans.
But as you are blinded by your bigotry you would fail to see this.
Now away and keep an eye on the sun.

The league 2 clubs will be queuing up imo.

Lennon on his way to Southampton for the AFC Totton job