\n O\u2019Neill, 74, was accepting a special honour at the Belfast Telegraph\u2019s 2026 Sport Awards when Carl Frampton shouted from the audience, suggesting Celtic should have stuck with Wilfried Nancy during last season\u2019s turmoil.\n<\/p>\n
\n The former boss was quick to bite back. He said: \u201cWhat did you say, Frampton? Was that just a crass comment that you made? I am actually bigger than you. If you’re arguing with me then I will get Billy Hamilton to sort you out.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n O\u2019Neill, who stepped in following Brendan Rodgers<\/a>\u2019 exit and Nancy\u2019s brief eight-game spell, had earlier joked about his chances of landing the job on a longer-term basis amid ongoing talks with Dermot Desmond<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \n He quipped, \u201cI think he is looking for a younger man, a 71-year-old! I am getting awfully old, but I don\u2019t know what\u2019s in his mind, whether I would have the energy to do it again. I really don\u2019t know.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cBut it was nice to be asked the first time, and because of it, I get your award, so thank you very much.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n Talks over Celtic\u2019s next permanent manager have been pushed back until next week, with O\u2019Neill still in the frame alongside names such as Robbie Keane and Craig Bellamy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O\u2019Neill, 74, was accepting a special honour at the Belfast Telegraph\u2019s 2026 Sport Awards when Carl Frampton shouted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-610028","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\/610028","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=610028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}