Lennon Responds to Haterley

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/footba...hateley-over-his-rangers-rant-86908-23764952/

Feb 26 2012 By Mark Guidi, Sunday Mail
NEIL Lennon last night blasted back at Mark Hateley for accusing him of being disrespectful and dancing on Rangers’ grave.
In his column for our sister paper the Daily Record, the Gers legend claimed Celtic boss Lennon and Hoops chief executive Peter Lawwell had made inflammatory comments about the dire financial situation at Ibrox.
He also insisted Celtic’s impending title win would be tainted because of the 10-point penalty his former club suffered for going into administration earlier this month.
Those comments outraged the Parkhead faithful and Lennon joined the punters in expressing his anger yesterday.
He said: “Mark’s comments have caused a lot of amusement among us. At the end of last season I said there were a lot of people outside of the game who don’t put anything constructive into the game and just take, take, take.
“I’d put Mark into that bracket. I don’t know where he’s coming from. He uses inflammatory tones about us dancing on Rangers’ grave, which is completely misconstrued.
“In his opening paragraph he basically says: ‘I don’t care what you think but your title’s tainted.’ Again, to me, that’s disrespectful and inflammatory to our supporters, the club itself and certainly my players.
“Basically, it’s just pub talk. Someone in his position should know better.
“If anybody’s being inflammatory about the whole situation it’s him. We’d still be clear at the top without the 10-point penalty.
“I find it embarrassing. He’s entitled to his opinion but it’s one we don’t agree with.
“Mark is someone who has played the game and should know football.
“We’ve never mentioned dancing on Rangers’ grave. We haven’t taken a gloating theme. He’s using the words ‘dignity’ and ‘class’ – well Rangers are the ones under investigation, they’re the ones who the police have been called in to look at.”
The Celtic boss also insisted both himself and Lawwell weren’t stirring up trouble when they answered questions about the possible extinction of Rangers in the aftermath of administration.
He said: “We were asked the question: ‘Do we need a strong Rangers’ and we don’t.
“The question wasn’t: ‘Could you do without Rangers?’ The question was :‘Do you need a strong Rangers?’ and we said: ‘No.’
“We are self sufficient. I found the tainted title tag very disrespectful.
“We’ve done nothing wrong. We’ve played the game on the pitch as honestly as we can and off the pitch we do our business properly.
“We were already ahead of Rangers before they went into administration. We were also on a strong run and still in all of the competitions.
“It’s a poor excuse to try to devalue what we’re doing here – a very cheap shot.
“These guys have a platform and they lack credibility and responsibility in what they write.
“It’s not a shame for our supporters. The fans won’t take a blind bit of notice of what Mark Hateley says or thinks. And neither will we.
“But I thought his column was pretty poor. He has been banging the Rangers propaganda drum for a long time.
“There’s no impartiality in what he writes. As I’ve said before, he’s one of these people who take, take, take and don’t put anything back into the game – on a constructive basis.”

love neil for this completely shut him down and all the punters in one go!

 

needed to be said by some one but wish it had been the board that said it just so they had no excuse to go after neil.
mind you they never needed an excuse before

 

thats how someone with class and dignity calls someone a wankbag.....hail hail Neil.

 

Who has the dignity and class now?

Infact, did they ever have any to begin with?

That * comparing Jelly and Ice Cream to up to your knees is a * Joke. Well in Lennon, but I would like to see us say nothing more about them till the end of the season. Then show our hand. Kick them at their lowest point.

 

Well said Lenny. Although this will probably get people paying attention to Hateleys * column next week.

 

Great response....well said Lenny

 

we should sign his boy just to * him off.

 

brilliant lenny

 

Well said Lenny. I found Hatelys column hilarious as you could tell he was hurting bad. But you don't know what kinda stuff it can stir up. Wonder how long before the threats and bullets are back out.

 

Well said but don't want this to descend into a * for tat thing in the daily papers. Neil and the club would do well now to stand back and let the drama unfold as it's currently collapsing around their ears.

 

It's instances like this that make you proud to have someone like Lennon as our manager. He won't sit back and take * from anyone.

The guy's a legend, and will eventually be ranked up their alongside true Celtic legends like McNeil, Burns, Stein & McStay not for what they accomplished in terms of trophies or personal accomplishments, but because they were true Celtic men who were respected by all of the support.

I agree. Lennon's said his bit and should now walk away from the situation. Don't give Hateley any more publicity.

 

We are beating them with Lenny as our leader,thats all the excuses the bigots need.

 

had to be said

 

Well in Neil!

 

does it hurt to be a hun ,, does a hurt to be a hun

 

Exclusive footage of Neil putting Hateley in his place :icon_mrgreen:

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put the * to the sword lenny!

 

Lenny really does conduct himself so well in the media. Yet another brilliant interview by him. I agree with most though, we've said our bit, now we walk away. Don't give this * anymore air time, because he really isn't worth it. Well in Lenny