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 did for his career.But, with the old gaffer gone, the young stopper is now hoping two former defensive talents in the shape of John Kennedy and Stephen McManus will help him push onto the next stage of his development at Celtic.Welsh is indebted to the faith shown in him by Lennon.The former boss handed him a Parkhead first-team debut just over a year ago at Hamilton.He dished out a second start at the beginning of this campaign in the biggest domestic game of the lot against Rangers.Days later, Lennon trusted Welsh to go in against AC Milan in the Europa League.
Lennon is no longer in the building, but his confidence in Welsh looks like being well placed with the youngster stepping up to the plate in recent weeks to keep Shane.
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