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[FiNeRaIn]

I can't wait to see Celtic's home crowd on tuesday, may me less than Reading.

[frimmers3]

I can't wait to see Celtic's home crowd on tuesday, may me less than Reading.

[AthleticoSpizz]

I can't wait to see Celtic's home crowd on tuesday, may me less than Reading.

its quiet on here tonight isn't it Frimmers

[FiNeRaIn]

ETims Exclusive – Player Fracas At Celtic Park
Written by Hector Bandido
Saturday, 10 April 2010
After today's pitiful team performance I headed over to Celtic Park. There was a small but angry mob of around 30 people in attendance and all in the 30 – 60 age group so no young yins and cops galore around the place.

The team bus arrived and every single player took fully merited pelters from a lot of the support standing in wait. Lennon was first off the bus and headed for the front door entrance at the main stand appearing as apologetic as a human could ever look. Then one by one the players departed the bus all to a loud chorus of boos from some but not all of the support. Keane tried to apologise but one fan was as vocal to him as the rest and Keane turned away before heading to his car. Fair play to him he still made himself available to any kid wanting an autograph and kept on apologising.

Things were bad but rapidly deteriorated when McGeady left the team bus. The heckling he received wasn’t any louder than anyone else’s but as is his way he took it upon himself to start mouthing back at the support which caused tempers to fray and the Police to move in stop small pockets of the support getting to him. That wasn’t the end of matters though as McGeady kept shouting back at punters only adding to their ire. When one considers how appalling he was today he’s about the last player who should have opened his mouth but nope he kept arguing back with two supporters comments particularly standing out. The first was a fairly clear message “**** aff to England ya wee £%@$” and the second more subtle from an observer in the pensioner age group; “wee Strachan had your number all along McGeady”.

A little while later Darren O’Dea was embroiled in words with some supporters asking them “what did they want him to do” which as you can imagine opened up a few ripostes from those challenging his and the teams performance that day.

Naylor, Brown, N’Guemo and others kept their heads down as they walked towards their cars but the biggest jeer was definitely reserved for Samaras who took an absolute pounding. There’s no doubt he’s a target at matches from some supporters but was he any worse than his team-mates today? No matter, he walked towards his car still willing to acknowledge any kid asking for his autograph while their Dad was questioning his parentage.

The crowd of around now 50 supporters quickly dispersed and 15-20 minutes later Neil Lennon departed the main door and walked towards the small pocket of around 20 fans remaining. Lennon apologised to everyone in attendance and in all honestly for the first time I can recollect he looked a broken man. Give him his utmost due though as he said to all remaining supporters he would openly answer every question they had as it was the least he could do.

He was asked by one supporter why Samaras continues to start and replied he believed “The wide open spaces of Hampden would suit his style plus as he had scored 15 goals this season thought he was the man to do the business today. Unfortunately it didn’t happen”. This led to an older supporter advising Lennon that “Samaras was in (his opinion) the biggest shite bag he’d seen in 60 years supporting the team”. Lennon to be fair didn’t get into an argument over this and took the persons clear point on board.

I then asked him why he doesn’t play Brown, N’Guemo and Crosas together as the midfield two is being over-run so often this season by a lot of teams. His response was he had considered that before the game but felt Robbie would be isolated as Fortune was supposed to play through the middle as a 4-4-2 with Samaras wide left in midfield. He followed this up by saying both Fortune and Samaras disappointed him and he would be unlikely to start the both of them on Tuesday.

Questions continued to flow his way and to his great credit he answered every one put to him openly and honestly, some of his answers I’m not able to repeat here and you’ll understand why at the seasons end.

For everyone’s information neither Peter Lawwell nor John Reid showed up at the stadium during this period which was just as well as they were without any shadow of a doubt the real target of anger of most people hanging around the ground.

[AthleticoSpizz]

seems like Lennon deserves some kind of plaudits amongst the face of adversity...he is not the manager afterall.

Biggest LOL goes to Talksports Scottish representitive who said pre-match "there is no way Celtic will lose this one"

time to look for another job mate

[weybridgewanderer]

there is no doubt celtic are a better side

no doubt at all gus, no doubt at all!

[weybridgewanderer]

de ja vu?

[weybridgewanderer]

de ja vu?

one thread at the beginning of the season, one in the middle and now one at the business end

It has been quite a season eh gus?

[frimmers3]

the current situation with regard to the "health" of football is this:(imho) remove the points garnered from the "old firm" matches and the clubs are neck and neck.not good.

[weybridgewanderer]

rangers currently on 76 points, remove their 7 from the 3 old firm games that is 69

celtic currently on 63 points, remove their 1 from the 3 old firm games thats 62

how is that neck an neck?

[frimmers3]

i think you will find that if rangers win the "last"old firm" fixture they will have accrued ten points from the possible twelve...currently 13 points ahead....like i said,strip the points from that fixture and they are within a game of each other. shows how weak the rest of the league are.

[weybridgewanderer]

you are deducting points that aren't included in the gap you are using as your base

rangers win the last old firm game, the gap gets bigger

if rangers win the next old firm game they would gain 3 and celtic would gain 0, so the gap would be 16 points before you took away rangers 10 and celtics one, still leaving a 7 point gap

[Royal Rother]

Can he make this last 2 pages I wonder?

[FiNeRaIn]

Last old firm announced for second game from the end of this season, midweek kick off ( which is a bit baffling).

Had to postpone it due to Celtics inability to accept losing the title in their ground like in 99. Due their actions that day no longer are old firm games allowed to be title deciders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCiILF4UIgA

[The whole year inn]

I can't wait to see Celtic's home crowd on tuesday, may me less than Reading.

some papers quoting as low as 15K

[Stranded]

I can't wait to see Celtic's home crowd on tuesday, may me less than Reading.

some papers quoting as low as 15K

27k according to SSN.

[FiNeRaIn]

" Greatest fans in the world"

[weybridgewanderer]

BBC and SKY reporting approx 27K, other media outlets report much less

Apathetic supporters shun nervous Celtic
Only around 15,000 turn up to watch Neil Lennon’s men edge past Motherwell thanks to two goals from Josh ThompsonGraham Spiers

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 096774.ece

[FiNeRaIn]

Celtic's website stopped reporting attendances long ago they are so embarassed haha

How can you not post attendances for months? What sort of club gets away with that?

http://www.celticfc.net/home/fixturesRe ... tTeam.aspx

[Stranded]

BBC and SKY reporting approx 27K, other media outlets report much less

Apathetic supporters shun nervous Celtic
Only around 15,000 turn up to watch Neil Lennon’s men edge past Motherwell thanks to two goals from Josh ThompsonGraham Spiers

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 096774.ece

Official attendance quoted as 27,400 but that may include STs who didn't turn up.