If you send bombs and bullets to a team manager.
If you assault him when he is doing his job.
If you racially abuse him on the street and in stadiums.
If you send bullets to two athletes, both of whom subsequently fade from the team.
If you send bombs to intimidate prominent fans.
If you are caught lying to the same manager, then stage a strike when criticism comes your way.
If you do all of this, will it earn you a single point advantage?
This season has provided abundant debate for the nation’s intellectual classes who have despaired at the thuggish minority whose fingerprints are on the worst of the excesses. If only the problems were limited to the thugs.
We have been invited by some shameful apologists to assume that Neil Lennon ‘brings it on himself’. Inconveniently for this theory, fellow victims Niall McGinn, the most inoffensive player ever to pull on a Celtic shirt, and Paddy McCourt, who offends only by scoring outrageous goals, share only a religion and racial heritage with Neil Lennon.
Decades from now you will tell someone about this season and they will not believe you. It will seem incredible that all this happened in a ‘civilised’ 21st century society over football.
If you assault him when he is doing his job.
If you racially abuse him on the street and in stadiums.
If you send bullets to two athletes, both of whom subsequently fade from the team.
If you send bombs to intimidate prominent fans.
If you are caught lying to the same manager, then stage a strike when criticism comes your way.
If you do all of this, will it earn you a single point advantage?
This season has provided abundant debate for the nation’s intellectual classes who have despaired at the thuggish minority whose fingerprints are on the worst of the excesses. If only the problems were limited to the thugs.
We have been invited by some shameful apologists to assume that Neil Lennon ‘brings it on himself’. Inconveniently for this theory, fellow victims Niall McGinn, the most inoffensive player ever to pull on a Celtic shirt, and Paddy McCourt, who offends only by scoring outrageous goals, share only a religion and racial heritage with Neil Lennon.
Decades from now you will tell someone about this season and they will not believe you. It will seem incredible that all this happened in a ‘civilised’ 21st century society over football.
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