Martin O’Neill trained as a lawyer before going into to football and then football management. That legal training tells in some very precise word choices. So on Sunday, when he was asked on Sky TV whether Roy Keane would be a suitable Celtic manager, his response was sure to lead to speculation.
Martin (of course) dodged the question. Instead, he endorsing his former assistant’s ability as a manager, indicating his surprise so many clubs were missing out on Keane.
After a mercurial two years manager of Sunderland (summer, then winter) and two years with Ipswich in the lower reaches of the Championship, Keane has not been a manager in his own right for 10 years and 2 months.
Half of this time Roy was Martin’s assistant at Ireland. For six months during that period, he was also assistant to Paul Lambert at Aston Villa, before a short spell, again with Martin, as assistant at Nottingham Forest.
We have been here before with media reports of Roy taking the Celtic job, before Ronny Deila’s appointment seven years ago. Celtic were still shopping around then, as they are now, so it would be folly to make assumptions.
Anyway, back to Martin’s legal brain. With all them smarts, our former manager surely knows it is Roy Keane’s intensity that has led to a reluctance of chief executives to give him the keys of the kingdom. There are surely easier gigs than managing Roy Keane, although Martin achieved this part-time for five years.
Intensity: euphemism.
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Im hoping following tonights game in Paris Mr Mckay joins the club, probably will cost us compensation or any bonus he may be due but he needs to be at the club pronto.
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Plus in relation to Broonie he obviously wants to play not just manage/coach.
In reply to Jinkyredstar 10.47 last night ….there was no hatred in the term sweaty sock….it wasn’t full of anger ……and do you know what I didn’t feel I would get stabbed by the occasional person that used it ……now getting called a fenlan papish bastard on the other hand ……
…swearies and references to a tawdry tabloid that despises us and ours…………!!!
C’mon lhads………….there are other places more suited.
HH
TIMMY7_NOTED on 26TH MARCH 2021 11:25 AM
Exactly. We don’t know how good Brown will be but we know how bad Keane has been.
I’m still hoping it’s a huge red-herring but the signs are not good.
One small silver lining from losing the 10 was the opportunity for a big reset, a chance to move forward as a progressive, forward-thinking club with a DoF and bright young coach.
It now seems the “DoF” will just be a replacement for Hammond and the coach will be an unimaginative appointment with ex-Celt and/or Irish roots.
Let’s hope this is all just internet guff and Roy Keane announces he’s staying with Sky :)
GEEBEE1978
I’m hoping it’s a red herring to.
But this is a board who in October didn’t think there was anything wrong at the club and waited until February to sack Neil Lennon and hand no one lined up.
We really are a shambles of a club.
My brother said to me weeks ago , don’t be surprised if it’s Keane
ST TAMS on 26TH MARCH 2021 11:49 AM
True although Paul67 insisted that the reason Lennon was kept on was that there was nobody out of work who the board felt suitable.
Part of me thinks if DD really has a thing for Keane, this could’ve been done in November….
Quite clearly the so-called DoF won’t have a say which is ludicrous.
new article posted.
is it possible that Celtic’s owner is of the mind that the huns need a period of domination to consolidate their finances to ensure the long term survival of the Old Firm, without which his game plan of gaining entry to the EPL is doomed?
Or maybe not
New article is in the post.
Police application of Law and Order has recently featured on CQN. Here is a version of how PSNI deal with some of these matters.
For a few weeks a group of youths have been making life difficult for elderly folk in the St. Agnes I area of Andytown,
Last night, his patience. exhausted, one of the residents went out to the mob.One of them began to video him. His. Response was ro knock the phone. Out of the youth’s hand. Knowing his rights, as they all do, the youth sent for the police.
The outcome was arrest and a night in a cell for a man simply wanting peace and quiet.
Haha cant mind who it was bangin on again about a Scots Gov being unable to look after our pensions but ma wee ma just got a letter from the British version stating shes getting an increase of 25p a week..better than almost nothin i suppose
DESSYBHOY, I agree.
I actually believe that Nicola Sturgeon was guilty of subconscious bias in how she reacted to us and Sevco. The contrast in how she reacted was stark. Absolutely bealin when it was us, but not so later on. She should be made aware of that.
ERNIE LYNCH on 26TH MARCH 2021 12:00 AM
AN TEARMANN on 25TH MARCH 2021 11:30 PM
Whataboutery should be contemporaneous, otherwise any insight it might provide is lost.
So, for instance, if someone mentions anti Irish Catholic bigotry in Scotland today, it’s a bit silly to respond by referring to examples of racism in England 60+ years ago.
racism then is racism today
60 years ago it was boyne water today it the billy boys.i gave you and othet posters have provided you with english racism – no blacks no dogs no irish to whatever right wing pash they vomit today.you stand with them