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.
Celtic player ratings as Scott Bain and Scott Brown toil in fresh Europa League disaster
dailyrecord.co.ukCeltic in the Czech Republic as a second straight 4-1 defeat to Sparta Prague sent them crashing out of the Europa League. Neil Lennon 's team were boosted by the returns of Christopher Jullien and Odsonne Edouard and the latter looked back at his best when he opened the scoring with a fine finish.
Their elation didn't last long however as minutes later David Hancko was on hand to fire in an equaliser.They trailed at the break after Lukas Julis, who scored a hattrick at Parkhead, popped up with goal number two.And then the striker made it three after some more lazy defending from the visitors.
The mirror-image scoreline was confirmed when Srdan Plavsic took advantage of some erratic positioning from Scott Bain to make it 4-1 with the last.
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