Celtic fined for Green Brigade protest but Neil Lennon stays positive I don't need sympathy, I've got a great job. We've been pretty successful and this time we've had a bad campaign but it is where we are and we look to build on that and progress and get better. Domestically we've done really well but that sticks in my throat as well because we're just expected to do well domestically and everyone was looking to the Champions League for the buzz. Now that's over we have to create our own buzz again. Lennon had earlier attended a board meeting, but it was a scheduled affair - "nothing to do with Wednesday night, thankfully. I'm still here" - although that did not stop him being pressed again about his team's standing in the wake of a lacklustre Champions League campaign and such rough handling by Barca. "Obviously we're all sore and disappointed with the way the campaign finished but we set ourselves a very high bar last year and we weren't able to replicate it, for varying reasons," he said. We lost, or sold, three very good players and for me we were in the toughest group. Financially we are way, way out of that league. We can compete in footballing terms, we can't compete financially. In Spain Lennon condemned his players for being "weak" and "lacking bravery on the ball" and on Friday he admitted that one or two might have accomplished as much as they can at Parkhead. "Whether they can go to the well again is another thing," he mused. "People say the players aren't good enough - they are good enough - but for us to hit the ground running this year was very difficult in a short space of time and the group we were in," he said. I live in hope and belief and in the back of my crappy old mind I feel I can beat Barcelona, but sometimes you get a bloody nose and sometimes you win. It can be a humbling experience but against world-class opposition in almost every position, I think the players can learn. So maybe they need a bit of time before we can go again. The main thing is to make the Champions League and have a goat it from there. Juventus are out this year. Benfica, Napoli and Shakhtar Donetsk - who have spent over £100 million - didn't make the last 16, so it shows you how difficult it can be. You can see where the power lies in football, for this year anyway. It's unrealistic to think that we can make the last 16 on a regular basis. As for the suggestion that Lennon might walk away, having hit his limits at Parkhead, he retorted tartly: "I might get the sack tomorrow, I don't know. It's a privilege to be the manager of Celtic. There are millions of good managers out there without a job. I can't be blase enough to think, "Well, I've done my bit here, I'm not getting what I want, it's time for me to stomp off somewhere else." That, to me, is a spoiled brat kind of attitude.