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Celtic manager Neil Lennon thought referee Willie Collum made two bad mistakes during Rangers' 3-1 derby win. Lennon was aggrieved at the penalty Rangers were awarded for their third goal and thought that Lee McCulloch deserved a first half red card. "He has got a lot of questions to answer," said Lennon, when asked about the performance of Collum. "I have problems with my team but you have to get the big decisions right. I'll be asking for an explanation." Lennon thought that Ibrox midfielder McCulloch, booked early in the game, should have been sent off after impeding Georgios Samaras when the Celtic forward was charging forward, with the game at 0-0. Rangers had recovered from Gary Hooper's opener on the stroke of half time to lead through a Glenn Loovens own goal and Kenny Miller volley when Collum awarded a penalty to the visitors. Rangers substitute Kirk Broadfoot tumbled after the merest connection with Daniel Majstorovic and Miller converted the spot-kick. "I want to know why McCulloch was still on the pitch, it was blatant obstruction when we were breaking," fumed Lennon. "It was a second yellow and they should have been down to 10 men in the second half. "And I feel let down on the penalty incident for sure. It's a big decision. I have seen a replay of the penalty and it looked soft. "I'm not sure he saw it and I'm not sure why he has given it. "There was a long way to go in the game and we were trying to regroup but Daniel pulled out of the tackle and Broadfoot went down very easily. "At 2-1 we were still in the game, at 3-1 it is very difficult for us." Lennon also had a few harsh words for his side, who have now slipped three points behind their fierce rivals in the title race. "We've given the game away," he told BBC Radio Scotland. "The manner of the goals we conceded is the most disappointing thing. Our mentality to see the game out was poor. "And that's from experienced players who should know better. We wanted to keep moving the ball and play in their half. We didn't do any of that." Lennon was forgiving of Loovens' unfortunate own goal but was critical of his side for falling further behind soon after. "I thought it was pretty eachy-peachy in the first half and we were pleased to go in a goal in front," he added. "You can lose a goal from a set-piece, as Rangers did in the first half. That happens in games. "We knew Rangers would come at us and we said if we concede a goal, just stick to what you're doing and be strong mentally. "The second goal was criminal from our point of view. We were comfortable in possession, we've invited pressure on and we've given our goalkeeper kicking practice, which we really didn't need to do. "I thought Ki Sung-Yeung had a really strong game and one or two others but I'll analyse the game later and see who didn't really show up. "The difference is only three points. It's disappointing to lose a home game, it's disappointing to lose an Old Firm game but there's a long way to go in the season and I hope the players learn from this. "We've got to pick the players up and go on another run. We've got a League Cup game on Wednesday and I'll be looking for a big performance." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/9122412.stm

Naismith is our SCOTTISH Arshavin...........................!!!!

booooooooooooooooooooooooo.........................

I think this is the best Rangers team I've seen for a long time,no doubt about it,where will it end?,not for a long time yet IMO

Ok Ok.......................:- scottybhoy Today, 2:47 PM Post #18 Member Avatar ding dong [ * * * * * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 14,427 Group: Snr. Member Member #88 Joined: 1 September 2004 ki had a good game outdone by an own goal, a feck up from the keeper and one of the worst ever penalty decisions from a ref that didn't even see it back to winning ways as soon as please jocksir Today, 2:48 PM Post #28 Member Avatar First team training [ * * * ] Posts: 113 Group: Members Member #26,297 Joined: 30 June 2010 Favourite all-time player Paddy Bonner Ref shouldn't have given that peno he was only half looking at it and it was a blatant dive clubfoot was already on his way down, effing load of baws GreenDay67 Today, 2:48 PM Post #29 Member Avatar . [ * * * * * ] Posts: 1,142 Group: Members Member #22,759 Joined: 9 January 2009 Favourite all-time player Henke For the 4th meaningful derby in a row we have been effed by the ref. Never a pen and McCulloch should have walked. Have a feeling though that those decisions,wouldn't have changed the outcome in the end,we were so poor. dannyclyro Today, 2:49 PM Post #32 Member Avatar Championship Manager Goodybag Winner [ * * * * * ] Posts: 809 Group: Members Member #20,288 Joined: 26 June 2008 Favourite all-time player The King Celtic weren't great but Rangers were no better and needed an own goal (not convinced Lafferty was onside there) and a shocking penalty decision to win. Our heads went down big time after the third, that's not good enough. Maloney going off early seemed to have far too much of an impact, no one else capable of playing central and getting beyond Hooper. Samaras while frustrating always looked for the ball and didn't stop running, I have to laugh at one poster's match thread comment that he "hides on the wings". Away tae feck. Gonga Today, 2:49 PM Post #33 Member Avatar ESSEX BHOYS [ * * * * * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 13,083 Group: Snr. Member Member #5,057 Joined: 28 September 2006 Gutted, I think we came out second half thinking we had finished the job. If anyone is still stupid enough to keep shouting about how shampooe the Huns are then they need to wake up now. This season is effing massive for us, and we need to find some more luck and some more balls to win this league. Aidan Today, 2:50 PM Post #36 Member Avatar Within You Without You [ * * * * * * ] Posts: 1,565 Group: Members Member #25,460 Joined: 3 February 2010 Why does Misser never miss against us? Bawman Today, 2:50 PM Post #37 Member Avatar Class is permanent [ * * * * * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 15,927 Group: Senior Member Member #106 Joined: 1 September 2004 Why is no one talking about the handball from Weir when Juarez knocked it past him and he was last man? andybhoy65 Today, 2:50 PM Post #42 Member Avatar Occasional Substitute [ * * * * ] Posts: 458 Group: Members Member #198 Joined: 9 September 2004 Woeful display, even accounting for the shocking decisions by the MIB. 2nd goal a mile offside and the dive for the penalty. No fight in this team at all. jonathan1312 Today, 2:51 PM Post #47 Member Avatar Club Captain [ * * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 3,623 Group: Snr. Member Member #18,969 Joined: 1 May 2008 (reply to a post from the other thread which i will put here because the other topic is now closed) a good summary of today's disaster -- and it was a disaster. you can't win this league without a half-decent defence, and we don't even have an average defence. of the four people out there today, only izaguirre looks the part. we have too many passengers and not enough fighters. hooper took his goal well but there are not too many other positives to take from today. i am so sick of seeing arseholes like lafferty and miller running around celtic park taking the piss. edit: hmmm, the original quote didn't appear. ah well. The_Bhoy_Kristov Today, 2:52 PM Post #56 Member Avatar First-team starter [ * * * * * ] Posts: 878 Group: Members Member #2,491 Joined: 12 December 2005 Favourite all-time player Paul McStay Majstorovic was quite solid for most of the game today but that foppish-haired twit who was playing alongside him needs to bolt. That penalty decision was ridiculous. We'd have never have got awarded that decision in a million years. We gifted them that second goal. Shocking kick by Forster. This team still needs some major work done to it, particularly at the back. stibhan Today, 2:52 PM Post #57 Member Avatar Viva la Quinta Brigada [ * * * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 4,453 Group: Snr. Member Member #1,273 Joined: 18 June 2005 I would like to point out that a few months ago I was bemoaning the fact that our fans concentrated on the huns financial problems because it wasn't translating onto the field. It's a continual embarrassment to Celtic that we get trounced by a team with much less resources than us, and to dwell over any impending financial doom whenever we were outmuscled by a side with Kenny Miller and Kyle Lafferty as the jewels in their crown. It's been absolutely horrendous being a Celtic fan the past 2 years in all honesty. SacredHoops Today, 2:55 PM Post #73 Member Avatar The boy with the filthy laugh [ * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 2,536 Group: Snr. Member Member #1,085 Joined: 2 June 2005 An embarassment from start to finish. For some reason Lennon decided that lumping long balls and crosses into one forward against two much bigger defenders would work, idiot. Lennon's record, he may well have 16 or however many league wins in a row, but the four games that mattered under his lead we have lost, Ross County, Braga, Utrecht and now Rangers. The referee was shocking as well, how you can give a penalty when you're covering your eyes is beyond me and McCulloch should have been off after the tackle on Samaras, but we can't expect fairness really. Funny how he gave that one immediately this week when last week we had four beeter shouts that weren't given. The Hooper 'foul' in the box was a joke as well, should have been a penalty to us. The Poacher Today, 3:00 PM Post #95 Member Avatar poppin rocks and cyanide [ * * * * * * * ] Posts: 1,989 Group: Members Member #9,073 Joined: 26 June 2007 Thought Collum was doing ok at the end of the first half - I was bracing myself for the hun to come crashing out in the second with steam coming out their ears. Sure enough. It's a marathon not a sprint etc, and if we get another running sequence going then we'll make up the points as the deficiencies in the hun will become apparent. The hun really are the footballing equivalent of a vulture, didn't see them playing any football but they harrassed well, were sharp and made mostly the right decisions. We could be summed up by Samaras - thought he played out his skin in the first half - although he still (needlessly at times) took the ball for a walk he made the right passes in the right areas. He left his brain in the dressing room at half time. All the high fiving as we went off at half time - I though 'OK done well to get the lead we deserve but we've another half to play, wait till the end for high fiving'. Stone cold sober and still totally riled at the shambling way the hun got their lead. Penalty was a sham, he didn't see, because he didn't have a decent view of the incident of Broadhoof jumping up in the air. Miller and Lafferty are the 2 most ungainly, ugly ungraceful footballers I've ever seen... right up there with the elephant man Davie Dodds. Total banjo playing trash. We'll get back into this and take it to them and their dump. wee_chorley Today, 3:02 PM Post #106 Member Avatar Come On ! [ * * * * * * * ] Posts: 2,183 Group: Members Member #7,150 Joined: 27 February 2007 Favourite all-time player I can't think of a player who has 100 letters in his name, so HENRIK I actually thought we were good today, much better than we have been for a while. I'm not going down the negative road here. We never got the luck today, I'm sure our possesion will show we ran the game. Several things done us today, 1 Maloney's Injury 2 Naismith 3 Referee's penalty decision 4 Samaras We will be ok. Antoninho Today, 3:05 PM Post #116 Member Avatar First team training [ * * * ] Posts: 194 Group: Members Member #26,602 Joined: 1 August 2010 Favourite all-time player Henrik Larsson Almost forgetting what it feels like to have the bragging rights against these bastards...last meaningful game we won against them was January 2009...and we still chucked the league that season anyway! feckin raging but not surprised junglejamesie Today, 3:05 PM Post #119 Member Avatar Hey Neil, heard the one about a hun with a tenner?... [ * * * * * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 21,276 Group: Snr. Member Member #89 Joined: 1 September 2004 Gordhun Smith on Radio Scroteland balancing out the penalty by saying Stokes should've been sent off in the first minute. No mention of Elbows not getting a second yellow for taking out Samaras... spanishbhoy Today, 3:06 PM Post #122 Member Avatar The power of Christ compels you.... [ * * * * * ] Posts: 876 Group: Members Member #23,914 Joined: 25 June 2009 Favourite all-time player larsson eff rangers..... Least the tax man will eff them seeing as we are clearly incapable, please let this be a blip on the radar Lenny herbert viola Today, 3:21 PM Post #181 Member Avatar Club Captain [ * * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 3,684 Group: Snr. Member Member #11,925 Joined: 9 November 2007 Im sick to the back teeth of seeing that dick miller scoring against us. He's been shampooe from the first minute that bloke ever kicked a football. He has now scored as many goals against us at celtic park since his return to the huns than he managed in a whole season for celtic. Emphasises how pish our defence is/was. Lennon has a massive task on his hands, he is fortunate that Smith is looking like he will retire next year. We have no big players at the club, no one who can pick up a game by the scruff of its neck. All the dreamers who have been coming onto this board and telling us how shampooe the huns are, will be bumping back down to realism now. Carfin Today, 3:23 PM Post #190 Member Avatar Getting on a bit [ * * * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 4,531 Group: Snr. Member Member #117 Joined: 2 September 2004 Favourite all-time player Paul McStay Don't worry everyone. Willie Collum will apologise tomorrow to make everything OK. Two shockers for me in that game. The penalty obviously and McCulloch staying on the park. p-livi67 Today, 3:25 PM Post #199 Member Avatar Considering retirement [ * * * * * * * * * * * ] Posts: 7,839 Group: Snr. Member Member #19,432 Joined: 19 May 2008 Favourite all-time player Paul Lambert Oh aye, and Collum shat it. He should have sent off McCulloch, he put his hand to his pocket and then realised who it was and changed his mind. He also didn't see the 'penalty' so how can he give it? He's no hun but he's still played a big part in ruining today's game. Otis B Driftwood Today, 3:27 PM Post #207 Member Avatar Of course I remember the first time I had sex - I still have the receipt. [ * * * * * * * ] Posts: 1,986 Group: Members Member #25,838 Joined: 6 April 2010 Favourite all-time player Jimmy Johnstone Gordon Smith circling the wagons by talking about Stokes' challenge on Papac; naturally he conveniently overlooks the fact that McCulloch should have sent off in the first half. Hun bastard.

Better to bet the Rangers at half time,7/1...........................:spl::robbo:

No disrespect mate,but that is a pile of shite. We are Rangers super Rangers no-one likes us we don't care

I thought he was shite and bottled out of major decisions,if he wanted to stamp his mark on the game he shoild have sent Stokes of for an horrifc tackle on Papac,say what you like but that is a career threatening tackle, a fucking disgrace!!!!,he bottled it and conspired to ruining the game,no excuses he was shite, it's a good job we are a GREAT side and did not need to depend on the Ref

We were superb today,and that is why we are CHAMPIONS..........................WATP

Justs for the record,at half time I still felt so confident I went to the bookies and asked for the price for a Rangers win,I was told 7/1 so hit it with �£20.............................happy days

Gees,geesa a break man,just in the hoos,pished I'll maybe have a look the morn,WATP

How good would that be???:spl:

Well it's nearly show time,soon we will see if the BHEASTS continual MOPING,GREETING,WHINGING,PARANOIA,which has been in the RHAGS every day this week in the build up to this game,will have paid off. Should we walk away from the piggery with points,which I'm confident of,then the paranoia will continue ALL next week,and if they somehow manage to take the points they will just say that's what happens when the ref is under extreme scrutiny. Mon the Rangers show them why we are the CHAMPIONS and rip them a new one.WATP

What price is the BHEASTS to get a penalty????????

Gerintae them [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdO0EoprDc]YouTube - Neil Lennon singing Oh the Rangers Are Shite[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EIpwn3DuuI&feature=related]YouTube - Celtic player Neil Lennon - The Lurgan Bigot[/ame]

I think it was more to do with the foul and abusive language directed at the match officials,not to mention the aggresive nature of the wee scrote:)

Ft:- 4-2 sheep

Correct mate,the SFA need to investigate the threats to families of the officials,and reassure the officials that they will have protection against these SCUMMY RHATS. As you say even a half dubious decision will have the Ref caught in two minds.

It is getting a bit ridiculous with the SCUM threatening the officials family if they make a wrong decision,something needs to be done about these RHATS

4-0.....................SHEEP,Hartley penalty

3-0 to the SHEEP

Watch them both like me

OOPS!!!...............1-1 now

1-0 Everton,what a strike from Baines,free kick

About to start,should be a good game