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Article: Football: Now I know how guys like John Barnes felt when they endured racial abuse; MY REAL STORY: HOW I TURNED TABLES ON THE BIGOT FANS WHO SPAT BILE AT ME Neil Lennon on the sectarian shame in Scottish football grounds.(Sport)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2006
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THE Old Firm match at Ibrox in November, 2004, was pure bedlam from start to finish - full of passion on both sides.
Alan Thompson was sent off after Peter Lovenkrands went down rather too artfully for my liking and Chris Sutton was red-carded.
We were two men and two goals down and I was being vilified everywhere I went on the pitch.
I had never known the abuse to be so bad and it reached a climax when I went to chase a ball that had gone out of play.
I was bombarded with Rangers scarves, so I thought it would be funny to pretend to spit ...