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.
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dailyrecord.co.ukCeltic youngster was unable to take any pleasure or enjoyment from such a huge day in his fledgling career after Rangers raided Parkhead.Welsh was pitched into the line-up for just a second top-team outing as Neil Lennon juggled the resources left within his shredded squad.Having played just once against Hamilton last season, the 20-year-old was thrown a shirt for the crunch against the Ibrox side with Christopher Jullien, Nir Bitton and Hatem Elhamed all sidelined.Welsh did little wrong during the 90 minutes but that meant absolutely nothing to him after his side lost 2-0.He said: “I’m obviously gutted.
The result was really disappointing. We need to win the derby games. The only goal was to win.“I don’t think we played particularly well.
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