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Paul Lambert and his bizarre Jock Stein reference

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Paul Lambert has made a bizarre reference to Jock Stein as Radio Scotland revelled in the problems at Celtic.

In the early years of this century Lambert and Neil Lennon were central to Celtic’s success despite many critics claiming that they wouldn’t be able to play together.

When those two were in place not many celebrations could be heard in the away dressing room after European matches although Bayern Munich were ecstatic with a 0-0 draw in 2003.

Following defeats from Cluj, Copenhagen, Ferencvaros and Sparta Prague, Lennon is under serious pressure with Celtic’s domestic domination now in question.

Lambert has spent the last 15 years in management across England and seemed short on detail about Celtic’s current issues, at one stage he asked where the big central defenders (Kris Ajer and Chris Jullien) were.

Stein is without doubt the biggest figure in Celtic’s history but his relevance to a Norwegian briefly checking his phone is hard to work out.

Responding to Lennon’s claim that a change in culture is needed on BBC Sportsound, the Daily Record reports Lambert saying:

There’s something wrong if Neil has said that. He played in an era where we were a really good side.

I’m only going on what I seen on the TV but you look at the lad Elyounoussi on his phone, I know there’s been a big thing with that, you’re letting Celtic Football Club down, you’re letting the great Jock Stein down, you’re letting the Lisbon Lions down.

Celtic is an organisation, it’s not just an ordinary football club. It’s steeped in history, it’s a massive organisation and if you don’t grasp it and think it’s going to be easy and think you can take the club lightly, you’ll get found out and rightly so. What that guy did was let every one down.

Looking at his phone wasn’t the smartest move Elyounoussi has made but is hardly an issue when every single player is turning in performances well short of their potential.

Over the recent run of one win in six matches the on loan winger has contributed four goals, without them Celtic’s situation would be much. much worse.

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