World Football Index<\/a>. \u201cFrom there, we drew away at Leeds in the first match and then recorded five or six wins in a row with five clean sheets, which was a club record.\n<\/p>\n\n “We won away at Sunderland, who are now performing very well in the Premier League, and had players such as Enzo Le Fee and Jobe Bellingham, who is now at Borussia Dortmund.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIn light of our spell in charge, Alan was then offered the Swansea job on a permanent basis in the summer of 2025 on the back of our strong finish to the season.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt is always about making an impact and leaving a positive impression. I want to create special memories with the players I work with. I feel passionate about this Celtic group.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShaun and I are young coaches who have stepped outside the Celtic environment to work under high-profile managers. We wanted to test ourselves, learn, and gather valuable experience.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have both managed in the English Championship, which is one of the toughest leagues in Europe, at clubs that were struggling. We proved we could adapt, stabilise a team, and work under intense pressure.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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Martin O’Neill is back at Celtic for his second spell as caretaker boss this season (Image: PA)\n<\/p>\n
\n O\u2019Neill left Celtic level on points with Premiership leaders Hearts with a game in hand and nine ahead of Rangers, but now trail Hearts by six points.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe know that we\u2019re in a fight,\u201d O\u2019Neill told Celtic TV. \u201cWe\u2019re in a big, big fight. We\u2019re going to try and win the league. It\u2019ll not be easy. It never is, regardless. You set out way back at the end of July, beginning of August time, started off trying to win.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut now we\u2019re halfway through the season, and we\u2019ve a fight in our hands, a big, big fight. And so we have to be up for the challenge. It is tough.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt is a mad, crazy football world. I\u2019m obviously very, very pleased, privileged to be back again at the football club.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBefore, Brendan (Rodgers) had resigned and therefore there was that small opportunity to come back to the football club.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut in circumstances as this here, with Wilfried leaving the club, that just seems a wee bit strange just at this moment.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019d been there before as a young manager as well, coming into a strange, strange environment, coming into something here that you think that you know about. I grew up knowing about Celtic football club, but way back in 2000, when I arrived, I really did not realise just how big the football club was and what it meant to people as well.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe will be successful again and he\u2019ll have learned an awful lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O\u2019Neill, himself a one-time Canaries player and manager, is back at Parkhead for the rest of the season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-356459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356459","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=356459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}