Wednesday 6 March 2013

Neil Lennon

I have always had great respect for the Scottish yet it is getting rather hard to when Lennon is acting like a child. His complaints over the tackling by Juve is becoming a joke! Like Antonio Conte said in his press conference, if a player is blocking the goalkeeper like his was, he is committing a foul according to the rulebook.
This is a brutish tactic and it is used only by the British, as I was watching the Real Madrid  V Man Utd match yesterday and Wellbeck was all over the keeper and was looking at the referee as though he was doing nothing wrong! As the match continued, I noticed as none of the Madrid players felt the need to block off De Gea. This behaviour may be allowed in the EPL/SPL, where you can break the opponent's leg and only get a yellow, but in the civilised world it is not tolerated.
After all this is the EUROPEAN Champions League, and with the spirit of the respect campaign, should you respect that things may be different elsewhere?!!
If Lennon doesn't want his players to be pulled and shoved than maybe they should learn to adapt the way they play the game. But that's just it... they don't have the ability to adapt.
Like I said at the start, I have tremendous respect for Celtic, but the time of brute force is over, maybe he should convey that to his team. And does anyone remember that Andrea Pirlo was getting constantly battered in mid field, or is that all just conveniently forgotten.

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