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 has promised an internal probe after Celtic’s team news was again leaked. Late last night and on Saturday morning rumours swept the internet that correctly called the line-up for the Rangers clash.
Although some were wide of the mark, one was spot-on as it stated teenage centre-back Stephen Welsh would start ahead of Christopher Jullien.
Lennon made no mention of the French defender being out when he performed his pre-match media duties on Friday. The leaked team news also called correctly Patryk Klimala starting, while Odsonne Edouard wouldn’t even make the bench.
The Lennoxtown mole has enraged Lennon before and the Celtic manager left listeners in no doubt when asked how he felt about it by a radio journalist.
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