This has been a season of turmoil for a club so accustomed to winning.<\/p>\n
Brendan Rodgers walked out in October amid a breakdown in relations with major shareholder Dermot Desmond.<\/p>\n
The first call went out to O’Neill to help steady the ship and steady it he did, handing the reins to new manager Wilfried Nancy in early December.<\/p>\n
The Frenchman was sacked after just 33 days and eight matches in charge. A tumultuous tenure that threatened to derail Celtic’s season.<\/p>\n
Back came O’Neill though and despite some bumps in the road, he has kept them in with a shot of a a 14th title in the past 15 seasons.<\/p>\n
The veteran manager has won 13 of his 17 league matches across both spells, losing just two.<\/p>\n
One man who knows exactly what it takes to win with Celtic is former captain Scott Brown and he – perhaps unsurprisingly – is backing his former side to reel in both Rangers and Hearts.<\/p>\n
“Celtic have the mentality,” Brown said on Sportsound.<\/p>\n
“If they can keep everyone fit and keep up the work rate up, I don’t see why they can’t do it.”<\/p>\n
Unlike their title rivals, Celtic have a squad packed with serial winners in the likes of Callum McGregor, Kieran Tierney and Daizen Maeda.<\/p>\n
Will that winning mentality, the spirit O’Neill referenced, be the decisive factor in this compelling title race?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This has been a season of turmoil for a club so accustomed to winning. Brendan Rodgers walked out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-587950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}