“In October, I was having coffee on the King’s Road in London, enjoying retirement. I thought the days of me here at Celtic Park lifting trophies were well and truly gone.<\/p>\n
“It has been really sensational for me. I really can’t believe it.”<\/p>\n
Given the regard in which he is held by Celtic supporters, there will inevitably be questions as to whether O’Neill continues in the role next season.<\/p>\n
When asked directly amid the post-match celebrations at Parkhead, the former Leicester City, Aston Villa and Sunderland manager refused to commit.<\/p>\n
“I genuinely don’t know,” he said. “Has anybody talked to me? No, but I wasn’t expecting that. There will be time for conversations after the cup final.<\/p>\n
“I’m pretty old so it does take it out of you. I’m a bit-part in proceedings. They see me every day the players, this old man, and think ‘what’s he doing here?’<\/p>\n
“This is the most special place on earth. When there is absolute unison in this stadium, it is a sight to behold. <\/p>\n
“Obviously the players have been magnificent, epitomised by the captain, but we could not have won it without [the fans]. I’m delighted for them. <\/p>\n
“Let’s see what next week brings.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“In October, I was having coffee on the King’s Road in London, enjoying retirement. I thought the days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587738","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=587738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}