Neil Lennon

Wonder who it was but, that last from Ronny Deila to Lenny’s second spell.

 

John Kennedy but he knows Ange has his phone tapped

 

Was a boy that was working in the media department that was leaking it during Ronnys time. He got the sack. Dont remember the teams getting leaked under BR

 

Happened all the way through Rodgers as well, good 5 years or so you’d get the text every week with the team the day before.

 

Make a cup of tea

 

Great thing about this team is they're all effing good..don't matter who we play

 

I’d immediately point the finger at Jack Hendry, based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

 

Aye. He seems a bit of a *. Day he left absoloute zero leaks since...

That was also made up but ties in.

 

Wasn't he out on loan for the majority of Lennons time. He seems the type that would do it though

 

The mention of betting companies immediately brings Griffiths to mind. However, I choose to believe it was Ntcham. Exactly the sort of miserable * that would do it for no reason. Texting away to some journo * before meandering onto the pitch still half asleep. 100% it was him, convinced myself now.

 

Neil Lennon is a shock choice to take charge of struggling Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv.


The former Celtic and Hibs boss has been out of work since last October when he was axed by Cypriot club Omonia, despite leading them to a Cup success and a Europa League group stages campaign where they narrowly lost twice to Manchester United.

And he's been targeted to take charge of Hapoel Tel Aviv, who are in the relegation zone in the Israeli top flight after their league split.

Hapoel have former Celtic Head of Operations Nick Hammond as their sports director and he's told his board that Lennon would be an ideal candidate.



Lennon himself even revealed in an interview last year that he would like to manage in Israel one day.

He said: "I would definitely consider coaching an Israeli team. Israeli clubs have had success in Europe and it's somewhere that appeals to me."

Hapoel are currently managed by Haim Silvas, but he is set to leave the club at the end of the season with Hapeol having just four league games left.

They haven't won a league title for 13 years and the Bloomfield Stadium outfit are desperate for success again and see 51-year-old Lennon as the man to deliver it after winning ten trophies with Celtic as a manager and a Championship success with Hibs too.

 

Neil Lennon has said ex-teammates who criticised him during Celtic'sfailed 10IAR season 'jumped on the bandwagon when they should've known better.'

The former Hoops boss was in charge when Rangers swept aside Celtic and everyone else in the Scottish Premiership to lift the title undefeated and end the Parkhead club's bid for a historic tenth league championship in a row. During that Covid-hit season, he was criticised by many of his old Celtic pals, including the likes of Kris Commons and John Hartson, but more notably by one-time Hoops striker Andy Walker in a spat that went public




That was born out of the much-maligned Celtic trip to Dubai for warm weather training midway through the 2020/21 campaign and Lennon has now come out to say that there were a number of factors outwith his control that led to the disastrous season




Speaking exclusively to Peter Martin on PLZ Soccer, he revealed: "It was just such a difficult, surreal experience going through the whole pandemic - it was totally different.

"If you look at all the big leagues: PSG didn't win the title; Madrid or Barcelona didn't win the title; Liverpool who won the title the year before by 30-odd points scraped into fourth place during Covid; Juventus who were going for nine or ten in a row, didn't win the title.

"So the fact we were not exclusive to this, but it affected most of the major clubs. For me, the big thing was no supporters and the players' way of life was totally different from what they were used to.



There was a lot of Covid anxiety among them, a lot of them worried about their families at home. And I know Rangers maybe went through the season unbeaten and they seemingly had no problems


It was nothing to do with football, Pete. It was more psychological and totally abnormal sense of living."




Asked if he lost a lot of friends during that time and if it was painful, Lennon said: "Yeah, good friends as well who were reactionary and sort of adding to the fuel and jumping on the bandwagon when they should have known better and taken a step back and go 'well, why is this really happening? It can't all be down to Lenny's coaching.'

"And it certainly wasn't. Because there was a lot of things going on behind the scenes that were just out of your control as a coach.

"At the minute, I'm quite happy in my own skin with the group of friends that I have and many, many friends in football anyway.



I was just really disappointed. Instead of them coming to me and talking about it first saying, 'look I'm going to go this way Lenny, I hope you understand', I'd have been fine with that. It was disappointing rather than hurtful."


The former Omonia boss was then asked if it was more painful given the people who criticised him were ex-teammates. He answered: "Yeah, of course. Been in the trenches with them and had all the successes not as manager first time. When I came back, we'd won five out of five trophies. So it wasn't as if the whole spell was a complete disaster.

"And no one really sort of analysed and thought 'if it is Lenny, right let's have a look at if it's not Lenny, what else has been going on behind the scenes or what else is wrong with the players and why are they not performing?'

"As soon as the crowds went back, everything went back to normal again for Celtic.

 

Neil Lennon has revealed more in detail info on Celtic's Covid-hit campaign which cost them 10 in a row - as he spoke about two other lockdown sinners who joined Boli Bolingoli in the bad books.

The Belgian full-back was suspended and investigated by the club after it emerged back in 2020 that he'd gone on a secret Spain trip despite being warned to remain in Glasgow during lockdown. The incident rocked the Hoops during their season and caused more fallout following their Dubai trip previously branded a "jolly" by pundits.


But while Lenny vehemently denies their trip to Dubai was just that, he did go on record while speaking to PLZ Soccer to provide details of Bolingoli's rule-breaking as well as two other stars who did the same


We followed the protocols to an nth degree," Lennon said of that campaign.

"Maybe that was a little bit over the top when you look back on it now but everyone thought it was the right thing to do at the time.

"Five different dressing rooms at the training ground then the players had to go home, stay in. Eventually after Dubai it went from two buses to five so the goalposts were moved after us following the protocols, there was so many things I could write a book on it.


Then there was the Bolingoli incident at the start of the season, you're saying don't leave Glasgow and he gets on a flight to Spain for a day.




Then he comes back and says he didn't go to Spain it was Belgium. We played Hamilton and we said stay in Glasgow, then a week later we're playing Kilmarnock. In between that he'd gone to Spain, not told anyone and then in the squad and played a bit of the game against Kilmarnock.

"Then the story develops and we asked him. He said 'I went to Andorra then drove over the border to Belgium to see my family'. Then two hours later he rings me and goes 'actually I went to Marbella for the day'. Then I had a meeting with the players to ask did anyone else leave Glasgow. No. Later on I get a phonecall from two players, I won't say who, saying 'gaffer I was in Amsterdam' and 'I was in Manchester'




When you look back it was really difficult on them, they missed their families, there were no restaurants, no social interaction with people. They broke the rules and I get it now."

Lenny also went on to explain how some players had downed tools after being promised a move.




There was a lot of unhappiness. When we were running away with the league and then the lockdown comes, the plan was for some of those players to go and they couldn't go because no-one had any money then because there were no crowds.

"There were a few offers from clubs that were half the price of the players.

"Had they thrown the dummy out? I think they were disappointed and frustrated that they couldn't go so some of their actions were not of the standard they had been before."

 

So it's still everything and everyone elses fault but his? Really wish he'd just stop talking.

 

He makes it so easy to dislike him.

Such a detestable little man.

 

I will defend Lenny to the hilt for the abuse he received, but the man now needs to shut his * damned mouth and * off into the sunset.

Why bring up covid breaches? What a *.

It’s his fault. Every player should have been told you live like a hermit till this is over. Anyone caught breaking rules is instantly dismissed as should have happened with that * Bolingoli (I’d shoot that stupid *).

The government and authorities couldn’t wait to crucify us. Lenny should have known that and should have had them under house arrest as we are held to higher standards than all others.

All of the above is an aside to his appalling management and capitulation in the covid season.

Lenny just go away now please.

 

What's even the point to this now?
Why is he still talking about all of this? What's his agenda here?

Guys just making it worse for himself and opening the club up to more abuse from opponents.

Now we are gonna have folk using this as examples.of how we got away with * during COVID.

All whilst he still blame anyone and anything bar himself.
"See Juventus struggled with COVID too, wasn't just us"
Aye Lennon, but Athletico Madrid didn't suffer did they? The Huns didn't suffer, did they? Man city didn't struggle (as an fyi Liverpool came 3rs that year, not 4th), Bayern didn't struggle, inter, Ajax, Lille, Salzburg, Sporting all didn't struggle.

How are we, as a football club, any * different to any of them? It's a pathetic excuse, that COVID only affected the precious winners - * off with that *. Worse clubs than us coped with it and better clubs coped with it better than we did.
It was poor club management that let us down in some incidents (Boli, Dubai etc) and just utterly dreadful coaching from Lennon game to game.

But it's the fans fault for not being there (ignore that every other club dealt with it fine), it's the fans fault for being critical, it's his pals fault in the media. Never Neil's fault.

And get, two years on, we are still having him come out and drop more innuendo and negative comments, throwing more folk under the bus.

Set himself up nicely to do another interview in the summer where he will allude to the two players in more detail of course.

Self serving *.

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Still not got a job then Neil ?

 

I understand all the stuff he is saying, but ultimately what happened during covid isn’t the whole story.

If he was such a great manager except for that one freak season then his time at Celtic wouldn’t be sandwiched between Hibs, Bolton and a team from Cyprus.

Dissertations could be written examining Neil Lennon’s managerial career and he certainly has plenty of winners’ medals.

But people that know football know he isn’t up to running a top club in the modern environment. He’s got his strengths but he’s not good enough for where Celtic want to be. No shame in it, few people are.