O’Neill has come out of retirement not once but twice this season to bail Celtic out.<\/p>\n
The 74-year-old won seven trophies during his first stint at Celtic between 2000-05, including three league titles.<\/p>\n
When he got the emergency call to replace Rodgers, O’Neill had been out of management for more than six years.<\/p>\n
Under his guidance, Celtic reeled off five successive league wins to move level with Hearts, with a game in hand.<\/p>\n
Then he had to do it all again.<\/p>\n
Barely four weeks after waving his goodbyes, O’Neill was back and Hearts were six points clear, with both sides 20 matches into the campaign.<\/p>\n
Defeat by Dundee United at Tannadice left Celtic five off the pace with seven rounds remaining, with Rangers sitting second. O’Neill said he would need seven wins to have a chance. He has delivered the first six.<\/p>\n
McInnes finished ninth with Kilmarnock last season, two places below Hearts.<\/p>\n
During his time at Aberdeen, he finished as a runner-up to Celtic three years running.<\/p>\n
His silverware collection is dwarfed by O’Neill’s but Hearts do have their own wily old master in the background, with Sir Alex Ferguson offering guidance to McInnes.<\/p>\n
The last man to break the Old Firm duopoly has been seen in a maroon tie at Tynecastle and is in regular contact with the Hearts boss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O’Neill has come out of retirement not once but twice this season to bail Celtic out. The 74-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-646246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}