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.
Steven Gerrard and his Rangers repetition show he's walking the Neil Lennon tightrope - Keith Jackson
dailyrecord.co.ukNeil Lennon admitted to being “bitterly disappointed” once last season then, by the time he was filling up his bin bag with the contents of his office drawer, he had long since sounded like a man who had no idea how to go about improving Celtic’s mood.
For Tony Mowbray, it was a matter of “taking it on the chin and moving on” even though his legs were already buckling beneath him like a Saturday night drunk.The modern-day translation is to press the “reset” button.
And Steven Gerrard has hit it so many times over these last few weeks that he’s in danger of needing a new laptop. “It’s on me” is another one of those one-liners to which Gerrard has had to resort to once or twice too often since the new campaign got up and running.
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