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.
Greg Taylor dived to win a penalty in his side’s 4-0 midweek defeat in Paisley.Goodwin launched a scathing attack towards what he believes are the usual suspects who are cheating by conning referees into awarding spot-kicks.But Lennon escalated the war of words by telling his fellow Irishman to stop deflecting from his own team’s failings and focus on their own second-half collapse.A no holds barred Goodwin slammed Taylor for going down under a challenge by Ryan Flynn.He said: “The penalty the other night was a joke.
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