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.
The day Neil Lennon brought Celtic's thunder back to Parkhead
dailyrecord.co.ukIt's not unusual for teams to get a new manager bounce but Darren O’Dea reckons it would be doing Neil Lennon a disservice to put his debut victory as a senior boss down to that.The Irishman insists Celtic were in such a state of disarray when Lennon was handed the task of repairing Tony Mowbray’s shambolic reign that it was going to take much more than a change of boss to fix it.O’Dea knew Lennon better than most, having played under him when the firebrand was Hoops captain, and felt he had the right credentials to land the job on a permanent basis.
And Lennon couldn’t have got off to a better start with an emphatic 3-1 home win against Kilmarnock despite a Parkhead pressure cooker following the embarrassing 4-0 defeat at St Mirren that
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