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.
Neil Lennon blasts Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths' social media 'nonsense' as he loses patience with Hoops star
dailyrecord.co.ukLeigh Griffiths the riot act after his patience snapped with the striker.The Hoops boss slammed Griff for putting on weight in lockdown and blasted his social media ‘nonsense’.
Lennon insisted the Scotland star had let his team-mates down and the hitman is now fighting for his Parkhead future.Lennon said: “I’m not happy.
I think that’s fairly obvious by the fact that we’ve left him behind.“He’s come back out of condition and overweight. Any physical work we asked him to do he was coming out of saying he was injured.
That’s going to be the case because he’s out of condition.“It would have been absolutely pointless bringing him with us. We had an extensive week in Loughborough and he wouldn’t have been fit to play the games here.“The ball is.
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