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.
Celtic job - insisting he doesn’t want to tarnish his reputation with the Hoops support.The former Hoops midfielder is currently manager at Ipswich Town and has been touted as an outsider to replace his former team mate Neil Lennon.But Lambert says he’s not interested in any romantic return to Celtic - and warned whoever does replace Lennon there’ll be no honeymoon period in Paradise. "I played for eight years, but I left the Glasgow scene a long time ago,” he told Sky Sports News. "That's not my life anymore.
I don't want to tarnish the good feelings I have with the Celtic fans.“We won a hell of a lot, stopping Rangers winning Ten In A Row in 1998.
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