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Celtic Trust chief riles fans up with Lennon abuse claim

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David Low has compared the abuse suffered by Neil Lennon from opposing clubs across Scotland with the campaigning of many Celtic fans to get him to resign as Celtic manager.

At 7am this morning Celtic announced his resignation to the Stock Market.

As chairman of the Celtic Trust, Low is on dangerous ground criticising Celtic supporters. In December The Trust helped organise a protest outside Celtic Park that rallied behind the BACK THE TEAM, SACK THE BOARD slogan.

With the Celtic board backing Lennon as manager at the club AGM a few days later that protest seems to be at odds with Low’s sentimental tweet following the announcement this morning.

A year ago Lennon was held in the highest regard by the vast majority of Celtic fans even if the European defeats from Cluj and Copenhagen had reinforced concerns about his ability at that level.

Those worries were evident again when Ferencvaros ended Celtic’s Champions League hopes with another away win at Celtic Park.

The default position was that he would deliver a 10th successive title, the SPFL table and this morning’s announcement confirm that he wasn’t upto the task with ‘abuse’ from Celtic supporters simply a convenient deflection from reality.

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