Neil Francis Lennon (born 25 June 1971) is a Northern Irish football coach and former player who is the manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic. During his playing career he represented English clubs Manchester City, Crewe Alexandra and Leicester City.
Lennon moved to Scottish club Celtic in 2000, where he made over 200 appearances and was appointed captain in 2005. Before retiring as a player, he returned to England and played for Nottingham Forest and Wycombe Wanderers. Lennon made 40 appearances for Northern Ireland in nine years, scoring two goals. Lennon was appointed manager of Celtic in March 2010, initially in a caretaker capacity after the departure of Tony Mowbray.
5 talking points as Ryan Christie's Celtic wonderstrike helps dispatch Aberdeen to set up quadruple treble date with destiny
dailyrecord.co.ukRyan Christie wonderstrike helped them ease to a 2-0 win over Aberdeen at Hampden. Neil Lennon's side are looking to retain the Scottish Cup for a fourth season on the spin, and an efficient performance set up a showdown with Hearts on December 20.
Christie's curled effort opened the scoring in spectacular fashion before Mohamed Elyounoussi converted from close range to kill the tie before half-time.
Aberdeen rallied in the second half but failed to really test Scott Bain as the holders used all their nous to see it out safely.Odsonne Edouard returned to the Celtic starting XI for the first time since the October international break with Tom Rogic and Nir Bitton also coming in.Aberdeen were without Johnny Hayes but did have star striker Sam.
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