Former Celtic defender Kieran Tierney believes Neil Lennon CAN claw back 16-point gap with Rangers and lead club to their tenth straight Scottish Premiership title… starting with Saturday’s Old Firm derby
- Neil Lennon’s side head into the Old Firm derby 16 points adrift of Rangers
- The Celtic board have already promised to review their progress early in 2021
- Arsenal and Scotland defender Kieran Tierney has backed his former boss
- Tierney believes a tenth straight title is still on despite an early exit in Europe
Kieran Tierney has backed Neil Lennon to overhaul Rangers and lead Celtic to ten-in-a-row.
The Parkhead boss heads into Saturday’s Old Firm clash 16 points adrift of Steven Gerrard’s side.
And the Celtic board have already promised to review the team’s progress early in the New Year.
Kieran Tierney has backed Neil Lennon to overhaul Rangers and lead Celtic to ten-in-a-row
The Parkhead boss heads into the Old Firm clash 16 points adrift of Steven Gerrard’s side
Despite quitting his boyhood idols for Arsenal in a record £25million deal, however, Scotland defender Tierney has backed former boss Lennon to make history by completing the great escape.
Speaking to BT Sports Scottish Football Extra, Tierney said: ‘I think he is the right man. One of my regrets in football is that I only got a few months to work with him, because I loved it.
‘Unfortunately, I was injured for a while. But he was brilliant for me.
‘He made you feel brilliant. Going out to the pitch he made you feel like you can beat anyone.
Tierney quit his boyhood idols for Arsenal in a record £25million deal in the summer of 2019
‘So I think that is exactly what the players need now.
‘They need confidence in themselves, they need confidence in the team – and I think he can do that.’
Victory on Saturday would still leave Scotland’s champions 13 points adrift with three games in hand.
But Tierney believes a tenth straight title is still on – and would feel all the sweeter after the fan protests trouble which followed an early exit from Europe and the Betfred Cup.
‘I think it would make it all the better with the position they are in, being a few points behind.
But the defender has backed his former boss to make history by completing the great escape
‘Imagine doing that and coming back and winning it for the ten? I think that would be brilliant.
‘Usually in the last two years they’re the ones at the top and they’re the ones getting chased.
‘It’s a new challenge for some of the boys, but there are a lot of people in there who have done that before.
‘They have the experience in there that they need and they have the manager that they need as well – he has been there before.
‘So it is a new challenge for some, but it’s a challenge I’m sure the changing room will be relishing and in recent weeks they’ve been brilliant as well.’
