Originally Posted by
El Capitano Gatisto
Neil Lennon is no hero of mine. I thought he was an average player and a bit of a knob. I have very little interest in Celtic or Scottish football.
However, what is happening with Neil Lennon is part of the same fascist, right-wing idiocy displayed by Loyalist/BNP/C18/EDL supporters up and down Britain. It's the same sort of stuff that saw Romanians being burnt out of their homes in Belfast a couple of summers ago: no real reason for it other than bigotry. They're cowards and horrible fascists. Neil Lennon gets different treatment because he is a target of these types of people. When they find a target, they circulate information, addresses, names of relatives etc. and the best ways to intimidate. I don't think he should change his conduct. No one should give in to fascists of any type. They're the scum of the earth. It's not just Neil Lennon and prominent people in the mainstream media, but human rights lawyers, prominent socialists/lefties etc.
Teams like Rangers and Hearts need to ask themselves if they have done enough to dissociate their clubs from this type of scum. The legion of arseholes who accompanied Rangers down to Manchester for the UEFA cup final a few years suggests that they have a lot of work to do. Blaming Neil Lennon when there is clearly an enormous fascist following behind that club (the Loyalist "Blues Brothers" with Linfield and Chelsea - also a load of scumbags) is misguided. The media seems reluctant to make these types of connections, possibly because it does risk alienating the normal Rangers fans who just follow football and aren't interested in all that bollocks. But the Northern Irish FA managed to entirely change their crowd from being a hateful fascist, racist bunch of Orange Loyalist twats (you asked me why I didn't support Northern Ireland growing up - that's why) to a more amiable, friendly following genuinely there for the football and to support the team.