Parcel bomb sent to Neil Lennon

[El Diego]

Northern Ireland isn't mostly Protestant though, more than 40% is Catholic. I get your drift though, a Protestant shouldn't manage or play for a Catholic team in the eyes of the nutters. It begs the question whether it's a disgruntled Catholic or a disgruntled Protestant who has sent the device. My guess is that it's from his own side, ie Protestants, for daring to ask for a United Irish team.

Daft as **** the lot of them.

I actually think Lennon is Catholic, so it's probably some Protestant scumbag. Was the parcel from Scotland or Northern Ireland?? Things like this is why Scottish football is ****

[Norbs]

Sorry I meant to put a mostly protestant area of Northern Ireland - I knew I'd get something wrong in that post

But that's basically the point I was trying to make

I actually think Lennon is Catholic, so it's probably some Protestant scumbag. Was the parcel from Scotland or Northern Ireland?? Things like this is why Scottish football is ****

You're right. I thought he was a Protestant, remembered reading it somewhere, my mistake.

[Chazza]

Footballer sacked over Neil Lennon death wish comment on Twitter

A young Berwick Rangers footballer has been sacked for comments he made on a social networking site about the parcel bomb sent to Neil Lennon.

The Scottish Third Division side, in a statement on their website, said the player’s contract has been "terminated with immediate effect".

The club did not confirm who the footballer was in its statement, but a spokesman later confirmed the teenager in question is Kieran Bowell. The player was the U-17s captain of Berwick Rangers.

A posting on his Twitter site said: "Wish that parcel bomb f****** killed neil lennon, the little c***." The webpage has now been taken down.

In a statement, Berwick Rangers said: "It has been brought to the attention of Berwick Rangers that a young footballer on an amateur contract with the club has made a comment on a social networking site relating to the recent story concerning the posting of a parcel bomb to Neil Lennon.

"This comment was completely unacceptable and as a result the amateur contract of the player has been terminated with immediate effect.

"The player has offered an unreserved apology and accepts his conduct is outwith the attitudes and behaviour expected from any person associated with Berwick Rangers at any level. The club very much regret any offence caused by his actions."

A spokesman for the club said they had received around 85 complaints by Wednesday evening about the Twitter post.

The comment was "completely out of character" for the teenager, the spokesman added.

The 16-year-old admitted to club officials that he made the remark.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-cen...nt-on-twitter/

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[dom9]

Funny how it's always 'completely out of character'.

[Muddled]

I obviously don't condone sending bombs through the post, but there is something about Neil Lennon that makes me think he's a bit of a cunt. Not that, that's a reason to try and kill him mind, just an observation.

[dom9]

Care to elaborate?

He's never had an impact on me either way.

[Muddled]

He has ginger hair.

[Muddled]

I jest.

He seems to have this air of self-importance, with the whole big-I-am attitude. His smug face, despite being an average footballer, is not warranted and now he's taken this from his playing career to his managerial career.

He was a thuggish player, he's a thuggish manager and he belittle's people and smaller clubs to give himself a congratulatory pat on his own back and make him feel bigger than he actually is.

He ticks all my boxes on my 'Damned List'.

[CJ]

Northern Ireland isn't mostly Protestant though, more than 40% is Catholic. I get your drift though, a Protestant shouldn't manage or play for a Catholic team in the eyes of the nutters. It begs the question whether it's a disgruntled Catholic or a disgruntled Protestant who has sent the device. My guess is that it's from his own side, ie Protestants, for daring to ask for a United Irish team.

Daft as **** the lot of them.

doesnt that make it mostly protestant?

[ChesterDave]

I jest.

He seems to have this air of self-importance, with the whole big-I-am attitude. His smug face, despite being an average footballer, is not warranted and now he's taken this from his playing career to his managerial career.

He was a thuggish player, he's a thuggish manager and he belittle's people and smaller clubs to give himself a congratulatory pat on his own back and make him feel bigger than he actually is.

He ticks all my boxes on my 'Damned List'.

Don't forget the little oik used his face to savagely assualt the boot of England golden boy Alan Shearer!

[Rudo]

I jest.

He seems to have this air of self-importance, with the whole big-I-am attitude. His smug face, despite being an average footballer, is not warranted and now he's taken this from his playing career to his managerial career.

He was a thuggish player, he's a thuggish manager and he belittle's people and smaller clubs to give himself a congratulatory pat on his own back and make him feel bigger than he actually is.

He ticks all my boxes on my 'Damned List'.

You're bang out of order there. Even if you don't like the man, you trying to say he deserves this sort of treatment? People posting a bomb to him, A BOMB

Btw, do you have any actual evidence which suggests Lennon belittle's people and smaller Clubs?

I don't particularly like Lennon myself, actually i don't know what to think of him, but what i do know is that he doesn't deserve all these threats to injure/kill him. No-one does.

[Rudo]

Care to elaborate?

He's never had an impact on me either way.

[Rudo]

Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror:

Have no doubt about the reason Neil Lennon had a bomb sent to him.

It is because he is a Catholic born in Northern Ireland who once said he would like to play for a team that represents the whole of Ireland.

It's a decision viewed by people with poisoned brains as a declaration of war, inflamed by his decision to play for and manage a club whose fans were baptised in a different church to them.

Blaming football for this act of evil is a cop-out.

In parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, football has merely become a vehicle for desperate bigots to hide behind.

But if Celtic and Rangers truly want to, they can go a long way to stamping it out.

Maybe they can start by putting up a huge banner across the entrances to their stadiums, reminding everyone how this banal hatred nearly killed a man whose only crime is picking 11 men to play football.

As another famous Lennon once said: “Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too.”



He's spot on.

[JBOX]

I jest.

He seems to have this air of self-importance, with the whole big-I-am attitude. His smug face, despite being an average footballer, is not warranted and now he's taken this from his playing career to his managerial career.

He was a thuggish player, he's a thuggish manager and he belittle's people and smaller clubs to give himself a congratulatory pat on his own back and make him feel bigger than he actually is.

He ticks all my boxes on my 'Damned List'.

Your a dick.
Your saying, just because in your (non-referanced) opinion, that don't mind if someone blows Lennons arms and face off just for doing his job.
I'm disappointed a fellow Liverpool fan would have such views.