Bombs sent to Neil Lennon, Paul McBride and Trish Godman

[geysir]

Celtic have a serious hooligan problem on a par with Rangers over decades, visible in Scotland and other places where the supports clash (Northern Ireland, basically).

Compiled evidence by UEFA observers and police reports, prove otherwise.
When is comes to hooliganism as we know it, as in street riots, stadium clashes, 'kerrufles', sectarion song, Rangers have that area cornered. The Rangers's brand of hooliganism doesn't travel well. Whatever Celtic fans get up to in bigoted Scotland, at least they behave themselves when they travel.

All that is peripheral as to why Lennon has become the focus of extreme hate and bigotry right from the time he signed for Celtic.
A trail of hate has followed Lennon around football grounds in Scotland and NI since he signed for Celtic, and not far behind this trail of hate are the predictable claims that somehow Lennon has brought it all on. That somehow his behaviour is responsible, just like the time he tried to smash Shearer's boot in with his head.

MON knew what Lennon was about and the peculiar brand of hate that was directed at him and made a point, time and time again of standing side by side with Lennon.

[OwlsFan]

There is nothing clear about sticking the boot in from all the videos. You can assume the boot was stuck in.
But sticking the boot in would be quite an impossible act, as there was a steward lying on the ground between Lennon's boot and the prostrate attacker.
In the video the distance is not clear, between Lennon and the prostrate attacker and the fact that there was a steward there as well on the ground is not clear on the video. The many photograph show with virtually an absolute certainty, that Lennon was not close enough and the path from his boot to the attacker was blocked by a steward.

Maybe he was kicking the steward being a Hearts' employee!

[ArdeeBhoy]

No thanks from ArdeeBhoy for that one ?

Why would I? A wee bit of a slur there?
(Why would any rational person want to be grateful for those d*ckheads? Whoever they are.)

Or just uninformed, which surprises me.
As you've made pro-Celtic noises in the past?

So DannyInvincible, what you are saying is that while both are bad, it's just that Rangers are worse. Fair enough.

Currently, that's beyond dispute.

Though I accept the facts that a minority of Celtic 'ned-types' are starting to react on the same level to the actions of the R*ngers substantial xenophobic constituency.
How anyone could deny the latter, is beyond belief!!!

Which does make me feel sorry for their decent fans, one of whom I was out with just last week.

[geysir]

Maybe he was kicking the steward being a Hearts' employee!

"Maybe" is the operative word because nothing is as definitive as some people try to make out, from the video 'footage'.

[DannyInvincible]

A BBC Scotland documentary called 'Bigotry, Bombs and Football' focusing on "a season marred by parcel bombs and sectarian chanting': http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._and_Football/

It's on BBC iPlayer though so only available to UK viewers, unfortunately.