Neil Lennon, the Celtic manager, is not normally an especially sympathetic figure. But so what? Here’s the big news from Scotland today:
Three prominent figures associated with Celtic Football Club have been sent potentially lethal home-made letter bombs.
Can we agree that this is getting out of hand? Assassination attempts – which is what this is – open a new front in football’s most depressing rivalry. At this point it’s customary to blame both sides and appear above the fray. But no-one’s sending bullets and parcel bombs to Walter Smith are they?Celtic manager Neil Lennon, his QC Paul McBride and the politician Trish Godman, a Celtic supporter, were each sent a package containing improvised explosives with the power to kill or severely wound the recipient.
No doubt people will again argue that the existence of Catholic schools is somehow responsible for this senseless sectarianism.
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