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.
Ismaila Soro has played a big part in helping him cement a place in Celtic’s team. Turnbull collected the Premiership Player of the Month award for December yesterday, after scoring three goals for Neil Lennon’s side.
He was also playing well in the Old Firm derby at Ibrox last week before being sacrificed when Nir Bitton was sent off.Turnbull is pleased with his form after taking time to settle into life at Parkhead and credits quiet man Soro for that.He said: “Since we changed to the diamond formation, it has worked really well for us.“It’s good playing beside Soro.
He’s intelligent and a great tackler.“Everybody knows how good he is at winning the ball back and it’s great for me when he does that.“When he gets it, he’s also very good at.
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