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 in frosty Celtic interview as fed-up boss walks out of BBC grilling
dailyrecord.co.ukNeil Lennon walked out of a frosty pre-match interview with the BBC as he refused to drawn on Monday's explosive press conference.
In his first game back since 10 days' Covid-19 self-isolation, the fed-up manager gave questions over his extraordinary interview the short shrift to reporter Kenny MacIntyre.Lennon's side are in West Lothian to take on Livingston in the Premiership and he refused to speak to Sky Sports ahead of kick-off following pundit Andy Walker's scathing criticism of the club's ill-fated trip to Dubai.But he did speak to the national broadcaster, although was in no mood to revisit the events of earlier this week.Lennon said: "I've said everything I wanted to say on Monday, if you want to ask me about the game, fine..
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