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.
Martin O'Neill reckons modern Rangers 'couldn't live with' his Celtic rivals as he puts 'best team ever' debate to bed
dailyrecord.co.ukIt's with a trademark twinkle in his eye that Martin O'Neill takes a diplomatic stance on whether his treble winning Celtic side would leave the current team its wake.
The Irishman preferred to use the Lisbon Lions as the flag bearers of best ever in a week when Neil Lennon claimed the likes of Henrik Larsson, Chris Sutton, John Sutton and himself would have put Ange Postecoglou's lot to the sword.
There was though a firm belief from the former Hoops boss the Rangers of today would be no match for the Light Blue outfit from his time in Glasgow.Whether Kyogo, Callum McGregor or Jota would have won a place in the class of 2003 which reached the Uefa Cup Final is a pub chat debate and O'Neill conceded the standard of the Premiership across the board is a pale shadow from when he donned a tracksuit in the Parkhead dugout.He said: “Obviously I am biased because I thought we had a really, really good team.
Sometimes it is difficult to assess. But like everything else, if you are talking about my old favourite word, the benchmark, then the best side Celtic have ever had was the European Cup team of 67 obviously.
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