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http://www.celticfc.net/home.aspxCeltic FC Statement On Mowbrays Departure
Newsroom Staff
Celtic Football Club announced today that football Manager Tony Mowbray is leaving the club.
Assistant Manager Mark Venus and first-team coach Peter Grant will also leave the club.
Celtic Chairman John Reid said: "On behalf of the Board and everyone at Celtic Football Club, I would like to offer Tony Mowbray my thanks and sincere best wishes for the future".
"Tony is held in great affection by Celtic fans and it is obviously with great disappointment that we make today's statement.
“During his period here, Tony has always acted with great dignity as he has done today".
"We are all Celtic supporters, faithful through and through, Tony included. We are all disappointed at the way things have gone this season.
“However, as supporters, we will collectively build again to re-establish the club to its pre-eminent position with Scottish football."
Celtic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell commented: "This is a very sad day for everyone at Celtic.
“Tony is a very fine man and someone who I know is passionate about the club he served so well as a player.
“Clearly, we have had a difficult season and results have not been as we would have hoped.
“Tony is equally disappointed at some of our results this season but working so closely with him I know that throughout his period as manager he has always given the club his total and absolute commitment.
"Tony will always maintain a strong affection for Celtic and I am sure he will always be highly thought of within the Celtic family.
“He is a man who demonstrates decency and integrity in everything he does.
"I have enjoyed an excellent relationship with him and I certainly wish Tony, Mark Venus and Peter Grant all the very best for the future.”
The club can confirm that Celtic coach and former captain Neil Lennon will take interim charge of the team.
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Newsroom Staff
Celtic Football Club announced today that football Manager Tony Mowbray is leaving the club.
Assistant Manager Mark Venus and first-team coach Peter Grant will also leave the club.
Celtic Chairman John Reid said: "On behalf of the Board and everyone at Celtic Football Club, I would like to offer Tony Mowbray my thanks and sincere best wishes for the future".
"Tony is held in great affection by Celtic fans and it is obviously with great disappointment that we make today's statement.
“During his period here, Tony has always acted with great dignity as he has done today".
"We are all Celtic supporters, faithful through and through, Tony included. We are all disappointed at the way things have gone this season.
“However, as supporters, we will collectively build again to re-establish the club to its pre-eminent position with Scottish football."
Celtic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell commented: "This is a very sad day for everyone at Celtic.
“Tony is a very fine man and someone who I know is passionate about the club he served so well as a player.
“Clearly, we have had a difficult season and results have not been as we would have hoped.
“Tony is equally disappointed at some of our results this season but working so closely with him I know that throughout his period as manager he has always given the club his total and absolute commitment.
"Tony will always maintain a strong affection for Celtic and I am sure he will always be highly thought of within the Celtic family.
“He is a man who demonstrates decency and integrity in everything he does.
"I have enjoyed an excellent relationship with him and I certainly wish Tony, Mark Venus and Peter Grant all the very best for the future.”
The club can confirm that Celtic coach and former captain Neil Lennon will take interim charge of the team.
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Neil Lennon: We want to win for the fans
Laura Brannan
NEIL Lennon will be in the Celtic dugout as manager for the first time on Saturday when the Hoops face Kilmarnock in the SPL, and he believes the players will go into the match in a positive frame of mind and focused on delivering a victory for the supporters.
The Irishman has taken over as interim boss, and has brought in Johan Mjallby as his assistant. And after taking his first training session at Lennoxtown, he spoke to the assembled media.
Lennon, who enjoyed almost seven years as a player at Celtic Park, knows what is expected of his squad and understands the expectations of the support.
“I’m expecting a big lift from them and big performances from them from here on in,” he said. “They have to get into the right mindset that they are good players and they owe not just themselves, but the club and the supporters more.
“I want them to go out and give everything they’ve got for the shirt, try and make them realise what the shirt means to so many people.
“It’s an institution across the world, it’s one of the best supported teams in the world, we’ve got great supporters who have suffered this season and deserve better. The players know that, they’ve been told that and it’s up to me now to get that into them.”
While managing Celtic has always been something Lennon viewed as a dream job, he admits that he’d rather be taking over in different circumstance. However, his focus is solely on putting a winning team out on the park and getting them to “play really good, hard professional football from here on in.”
The target is to try and reduce the points gap at the top of the SPL and also try and win the Scottish Cup.
“I’m coming in under difficult circumstances,” he said. “I would have liked them to have been a bit different but I’ve got a job to do until the end of the season and I want to make the most of that opportunity.
“I love football and the next step for me after football was coaching and I’m doing that now. I’ve got something in front of me now that’s beyond my wildest dreams. But I’m not going to get carried away, I’m going to do the job as professionally and calmly as I can and hopefully I can bring some success to the club.”
And the Irishman is confident that the Celtic support will give their backing to the team on Saturday and for the remainder of the season.
“Please come back, come and get behind the team, get behind myself and Johan,” he said. “We’ll try and install some pride and desire and will to win into the club that you love and we’re all trying to push in the same direction.”
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Thanks Noely.Would like to wish. Neil Lennon all the best for the rest of season.Come on Celtic👍
Great Goal by Robbie keane Noely.Hope they keep it up Excellent link.Thanks Noely👍
Robbie Keane 2 more goals today.Well done Neil Lennon
Great win today Noely👍
Great win today Noely👍
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Lennon's Celts off to a winning start
Mark Henderson
NEIL LENNON celebrated his first game in charge of Celtic with a comfortable 3-1 victory over Kilmarnock.
A brilliant brace from Robbie Keane and a Scott Brown strike gave the Hoops a commanding lead, before Craig Bryson pulled one back for the visitors when his cross looped under the bar.
But there was little danger of Celtic surrendering the three points in a match which they controlled from the first whistle.
Lennon had made several changes to the team for his first game in charge of the side as interim manager. Artur Boruc, Andreas Hinkel, Lee Naylor, Scott Brown and Marc-Antoine Fortune all came into the starting line-up.
The history books certainly suggested this would be a home victory. The last occasion Kilmarnock took full points at Celtic Park was on December 10, 1955 in a 2-0 win.
And it was the Hoops who went straight into the attack. With just three minutes on the clock, they had three golden chances to take the lead.
The first two fell to Fortune. First he headed over from six yards from Georgios Samaras’ driven cross. Then Hinkel showed great determination to reach the byline and cut the ball back for the striker.
However, this time, he was unable to get his foot behind the ball. The final chance fell to Robbie Keane. He found space in the box, but failed to get any power in his shot.
It had been a bright start to the match from Neil Lennon’s side and the chances kept coming. Samaras was next to try his luck. Picking the ball up 30 yards out, he drifted infield before firing a dipping shot towards the far corner which Cammy Bell had to push away.
On the other wing Aiden McGeady looked a real threat. After 13 minutes, he skipped past three players before sending a wicked cross into the box which Fortune nodded over.
Once again a feature of Celtic’s play had been Keane’s impressive movement. From a long ball, he showed excellent control to get away from Simon Ford and hare in on goal. But when ready to pull the trigger, the ball spun away from the Irishman.
It looked a matter of time before Celtic would open the scoring and Jimmy Calderwood tried to stem the attacking flow, by bringing off Marc Burchill and replacing him with the more defensive James Fowler.
However, Celtic continued to pile on the pressure. Naylor swung in deep cross from the left and Fortune’s header drifted wide.
Just when it looked like Kilmarnock would survive the first-half onslaught, Keane broke the deadlock with a wonderful individual effort in the 36th minute.
Collecting a pass on the edge of the area, he spun past Simon Ford and nutmegged Scott Severin before lifting the ball over Bell into the net.
That sparked the visitors into a rare foray forward. After a corner was cleared to the edge of the area, Severin fired wildly over.
And it was Celtic who could have added to their lead before the break. McGeady skipped inside Fowler and his low shot hit the inside of the far post before spinning along the line.
The visitors made one more change at the break as they searched for a route back into the contest. Another striker, Chris Maguire, stayed in the dressing room. He was replaced by Danny Invincible.
And the substitute did make an early impact. After making good progress down the left he sent in a low cross which was intercepted at the near post by Josh Thompson.
But any hopes they had of taking anything from the game were quickly extinguished when the Hoops struck twice in the space of four minutes.
When Keane picked up the ball inside the box, the there didn’t look to be any immediate danger, but he manufactured a yard of space and fizzed the ball past Bell into the far corner.
Scott Brown then grabbed his first goal of the season. McGeady jinked past his man and drilled a cross into the penalty area, and the Celtic captain stabbed the ball home from close-range.
The Hoops continued to pepper the Kilmarnock goal with shots, but the visitors pulled one back with 17 minutes remaining. Bryson tried to throw in a deep cross, but it spun off his foot and looped over Artur Boruc at the back post.
That gave the Rugby Park side a glimmer of hope and Alan Russell nearly made it a more nervy ending, crashing a shot off the bar from 25 yards in the 84th minute.
However, McGeady could have also stretched the Hoops’ lead in the closing moments, when he engineered some space on the edge of the area but saw his shot cannon off the bar.
It didn’t matter in the end though, as Lennon secured a winning start as Celtic manager.
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A great start for Lenny ally 👍
Lennon's Celts off to a winning start
Mark Henderson
NEIL LENNON celebrated his first game in charge of Celtic with a comfortable 3-1 victory over Kilmarnock.
A brilliant brace from Robbie Keane and a Scott Brown strike gave the Hoops a commanding lead, before Craig Bryson pulled one back for the visitors when his cross looped under the bar.
But there was little danger of Celtic surrendering the three points in a match which they controlled from the first whistle.
Lennon had made several changes to the team for his first game in charge of the side as interim manager. Artur Boruc, Andreas Hinkel, Lee Naylor, Scott Brown and Marc-Antoine Fortune all came into the starting line-up.
The history books certainly suggested this would be a home victory. The last occasion Kilmarnock took full points at Celtic Park was on December 10, 1955 in a 2-0 win.
And it was the Hoops who went straight into the attack. With just three minutes on the clock, they had three golden chances to take the lead.
The first two fell to Fortune. First he headed over from six yards from Georgios Samaras’ driven cross. Then Hinkel showed great determination to reach the byline and cut the ball back for the striker.
However, this time, he was unable to get his foot behind the ball. The final chance fell to Robbie Keane. He found space in the box, but failed to get any power in his shot.
It had been a bright start to the match from Neil Lennon’s side and the chances kept coming. Samaras was next to try his luck. Picking the ball up 30 yards out, he drifted infield before firing a dipping shot towards the far corner which Cammy Bell had to push away.
On the other wing Aiden McGeady looked a real threat. After 13 minutes, he skipped past three players before sending a wicked cross into the box which Fortune nodded over.
Once again a feature of Celtic’s play had been Keane’s impressive movement. From a long ball, he showed excellent control to get away from Simon Ford and hare in on goal. But when ready to pull the trigger, the ball spun away from the Irishman.
It looked a matter of time before Celtic would open the scoring and Jimmy Calderwood tried to stem the attacking flow, by bringing off Marc Burchill and replacing him with the more defensive James Fowler.
However, Celtic continued to pile on the pressure. Naylor swung in deep cross from the left and Fortune’s header drifted wide.
Just when it looked like Kilmarnock would survive the first-half onslaught, Keane broke the deadlock with a wonderful individual effort in the 36th minute.
Collecting a pass on the edge of the area, he spun past Simon Ford and nutmegged Scott Severin before lifting the ball over Bell into the net.
That sparked the visitors into a rare foray forward. After a corner was cleared to the edge of the area, Severin fired wildly over.
And it was Celtic who could have added to their lead before the break. McGeady skipped inside Fowler and his low shot hit the inside of the far post before spinning along the line.
The visitors made one more change at the break as they searched for a route back into the contest. Another striker, Chris Maguire, stayed in the dressing room. He was replaced by Danny Invincible.
And the substitute did make an early impact. After making good progress down the left he sent in a low cross which was intercepted at the near post by Josh Thompson.
But any hopes they had of taking anything from the game were quickly extinguished when the Hoops struck twice in the space of four minutes.
When Keane picked up the ball inside the box, the there didn’t look to be any immediate danger, but he manufactured a yard of space and fizzed the ball past Bell into the far corner.
Scott Brown then grabbed his first goal of the season. McGeady jinked past his man and drilled a cross into the penalty area, and the Celtic captain stabbed the ball home from close-range.
The Hoops continued to pepper the Kilmarnock goal with shots, but the visitors pulled one back with 17 minutes remaining. Bryson tried to throw in a deep cross, but it spun off his foot and looped over Artur Boruc at the back post.
That gave the Rugby Park side a glimmer of hope and Alan Russell nearly made it a more nervy ending, crashing a shot off the bar from 25 yards in the 84th minute.
However, McGeady could have also stretched the Hoops’ lead in the closing moments, when he engineered some space on the edge of the area but saw his shot cannon off the bar.
It didn’t matter in the end though, as Lennon secured a winning start as Celtic manager.
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A great start for Lenny ally 👍
great win for the hoops today noely 👍👍 super goals from robbie aswell, will be interesting to see wat happens to keane wen season ends noely will he go bk to spurs or not...
noely tat is excellent...👍i was over for roy keane's testimonial in 2006 and the celtic supporters
were unbeliveable they sang all those songs and they cover'd machester in a sea ov green and white...
it was an amazing seen truely magic.................👍👍👍
were unbeliveable they sang all those songs and they cover'd machester in a sea ov green and white...
it was an amazing seen truely magic.................👍👍👍
excellent as always noely...👍
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keane: personal award doesn't make up for defeat
Laura Brannan
ROBBIE Keane picked up the Clydesdale Bank Premier League Player of the Month award for March today, but admitted the prize was bittersweet following the team’s Active Nation’s Scottish Cup exit at the weekend.
The Irishman was as devastated as anyone connected with the club at Saturday’s semi-final defeat to Ross County but he knows that he and his team-mates have to try and keep their focus for the remaining six league fixtures.
Keane scored five goals in the SPL last month, making him the league’s top scorer for March, but he can’t enjoy the personal glory.
Instead, he knows the final games of the season are crucial for the club for regaining pride and maintaining their position in the league.
“It’s difficult to be smiling when you’re getting an award like that after the defeat on Saturday,” he said. “Player accolades are obviously good but if the team’s not doing well it means nothing.
“There’s a sombre mood today, everyone’s a bit down but I’ve been telling the lads it’s important to pick ourselves back up because we’ve got another game tomorrow.
“The important thing about football is there is always another game where we can try and put things right.
“We let Neil Lennon down, we let the club down and we let ourselves down, and as players we have to take responsibility as that, it’s as simple as that.
“Ross County deserved to win the game, there’s no question about that. They seemed to want it a lot more than we did and played a lot better football. They totally deserved to win.”
And Keane is determined to help the team get back to winning ways, starting with a victory over Motherwell at Celtic Park on Tuesday night.
“Obviously I wanted to come up here and win something but it wasn’t to be,” he said. “I’m still going to enjoy the remaining time I have here though.
“I never regret anything I do. You do everything for a reason. At the end of the day I’m playing for a wonderful football club which I’ve always wanted to do since I was a little kid.
“Great if I’d won something, but it’s not the case, and I’ll continue to give 100 per cent. I’ve done that throughout my career at any club I’ve played for and I’ll certainly continue to do that for Celtic.”
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keane: personal award doesn't make up for defeat
Laura Brannan
ROBBIE Keane picked up the Clydesdale Bank Premier League Player of the Month award for March today, but admitted the prize was bittersweet following the team’s Active Nation’s Scottish Cup exit at the weekend.
The Irishman was as devastated as anyone connected with the club at Saturday’s semi-final defeat to Ross County but he knows that he and his team-mates have to try and keep their focus for the remaining six league fixtures.
Keane scored five goals in the SPL last month, making him the league’s top scorer for March, but he can’t enjoy the personal glory.
Instead, he knows the final games of the season are crucial for the club for regaining pride and maintaining their position in the league.
“It’s difficult to be smiling when you’re getting an award like that after the defeat on Saturday,” he said. “Player accolades are obviously good but if the team’s not doing well it means nothing.
“There’s a sombre mood today, everyone’s a bit down but I’ve been telling the lads it’s important to pick ourselves back up because we’ve got another game tomorrow.
“The important thing about football is there is always another game where we can try and put things right.
“We let Neil Lennon down, we let the club down and we let ourselves down, and as players we have to take responsibility as that, it’s as simple as that.
“Ross County deserved to win the game, there’s no question about that. They seemed to want it a lot more than we did and played a lot better football. They totally deserved to win.”
And Keane is determined to help the team get back to winning ways, starting with a victory over Motherwell at Celtic Park on Tuesday night.
“Obviously I wanted to come up here and win something but it wasn’t to be,” he said. “I’m still going to enjoy the remaining time I have here though.
“I never regret anything I do. You do everything for a reason. At the end of the day I’m playing for a wonderful football club which I’ve always wanted to do since I was a little kid.
“Great if I’d won something, but it’s not the case, and I’ll continue to give 100 per cent. I’ve done that throughout my career at any club I’ve played for and I’ll certainly continue to do that for Celtic.”
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Yes Noely.watched first half,was not great.But the way things are going for Celtic at the moment,a win is a win.
Saturday must have been hard for you Noely,as it was for me.But keep the faith👍👍
Saturday must have been hard for you Noely,as it was for me.But keep the faith👍👍
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