Neil Lennon forced to leave Tynecastle after being hit by missiles Posted by [email protected] on 02/01/2014 Celtic boss Neil Lennon has had to leave Tynecastle Stadium early after fans began throwing coins and spitting on him. Lennon was along watching the semi-final between Aberdeen and St Johnstone when the incident took place. This is the second time that he has been targeted at Tynecastle, he was attacked in May 2011 when Celtic played Hearts. One witness said âIt disgusting, the guy was just along to watch the game and gets targeted by so called football fans. This should not happen in this day and age, I was at the game for the duration and didnât even know he was there.â http://www.liveedinburghnews.org/201...t-by-missiles/
Neil Lennon was spat at, had coins thrown at him and was the subject of verbal abuse at Tynecastle, according to the Celtic manager's agent. Lennon was watching Aberdeen's League Cup semi-final victory over St Johnstone and had to leave the game early, Martin Reilly told BBC Scotland. He said: "I'm absolutely raging about the treatment of Neil, about the stewarding and the fans' behaviour. "It's scandalous that Neil is treated like this." Reilly said that Lennon and Celtic coach Gary Parker had to leave their seats in the main stand after 70 minutes of the game. During the match, which Aberdeen won 4-0, play was held up briefly as two young supporters ran on to the park and got to the technical area, where Lennon was infamously attacked by a Hearts fan in 2011, before being apprehended by police and stewards.
He probably slivered some of his skol bandit down his tracky bottoms & thought he'd blame the supporters to save embarrassment.
I see Spiers is getting pelters for saying Lennon "attracts" this sort of abuse. Quite a lot of mongs interpreting that as "he brings it on himself" I think it's simple a case of Lennon being a high-profile character with a divisive personality. Basically he's a lightning rod for ******s.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26002727 Nothing like causing a bit of controversy a week before a big game eh, yet not one (steward, police, spectator) witnessed the incident. PS, isn't 70 mins the usual time most managers leave a spying mission so as they don't get cought up in the leaving crowds.
Aye, bams support every team. Two fans got into the technical area at Tynecastle today as well. What the **** were the stewards doing?
