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)

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 ...

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