{"id":213584,"date":"2025-10-20T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213584\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:11:09","slug":"martin-oneill-calls-out-brendan-rodgers-after-his-honda-civic-remark-about-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213584\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin O’Neill calls out Brendan Rodgers after his ‘Honda Civic’ remark about Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brendan Rodgers doesn\u2019t help himself sometimes. <\/p>\n

On Sunday, after Celtic\u2019s defeat to Dundee<\/a>, rather than take the loss on the chin and take responsibility, Rodgers<\/a> went down a different road. <\/p>\n

For months and months, Celtic fans have protested against the board<\/a>, and the manager\u2019s relationship is clearly broken with those running the ship.<\/p>\n

But after the Dens Park loss, Rodgers proceeded to note how much \u2018firepower\u2019 Celtic<\/a> have lost, and how he has been given \u2018the keys to a Honda Civic\u2019 and expected to \u2018drive it like a Ferrari.\u2019<\/p>\n

Martin O\u2019Neill<\/a> didn\u2019t hold back from what he was hearing from the Celtic manager<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"CelticPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesMartin O\u2019Neill slams Brendan Rodgers after Celtic\u2019s defeat to Dundee<\/p>\n

It\u2019s okay to be critical of the board, but sometimes, it goes overboard, it gets too much, and people need to look in the mirror.<\/p>\n

Speaking on talkSPORT, O\u2019Neill made it clear that Rodgers shouldn\u2019t have made the \u2018Honda Civic\u2019 remark, and he thinks it\u2019s directed at the powers that be. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a big statement for Brendan to make there,\u201d said O\u2019Neill. \u201cI have said a thousand of times, I have made a lot of statements in my time, and I have come to regret loads of them. Probably all of them. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I don\u2019t think you should be saying that, at this minute. I am not one to be giving advice to managers and that. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have got an owner here (Simon Jordan), who has had managers he has liked and some he hasn\u2019t liked, and I don\u2019t think, and I am not going to speak for Simon, he might totally disagree. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut if a manager is making that comment, you feel as if it\u2019s directed at you. And you haven\u2019t given him the tools to go and do what he is to do. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow, we all feel like this as managers, and owners feel differently. They feel as if, \u2018yeah, I have given them and he hasn\u2019t blinking well done the job.’\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill\u2019s warning to Rodgers on how Celtic fans will react<\/p>\n

What next for Celtic? Well, the fans will continue to protest, and Rodgers will continue to moan<\/a> if results don\u2019t get better.<\/p>\n

When O\u2019Neill was pushed on why he thinks Rodgers went down this road, he couldn\u2019t provide a straight answer, but warned the Celtic boss that such comments might eventually not go down well with the fans. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why he said that, in all honesty,\u201d responded O\u2019Neill. \u201cHe will have his reasons for it. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou just wouldn\u2019t do that. This is a comment totally directed at the board for not supporting him. You wouldn\u2019t do it. You wouldn\u2019t publicly say this because it doesn\u2019t go down well.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemarkably, believe it or not, after a while, it doesn\u2019t go down well with the supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers doesn\u2019t help himself sometimes. On Sunday, after Celtic\u2019s defeat to Dundee, rather than take the loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7336,218,30905,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-213584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-football","tag-martin-oneill","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}