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Football Daily | Martin O’Neill proves doubters wrong again with remarkable Celtic return

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Martin O’Neill has always been a little underrated. As a player at Nottingham Forest, he endured a testy relationship with Brian Clough and was once told by his manager that the linesman was having a better game than him. “You’re arrogant, with very little to be arrogant about”, Clough would regularly say to the Irishman, who ended up doing a pretty good job of proving his manager wrong. But maybe that was Cloughie’s genius, knowing which buttons to push.

Continue reading…Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Martin O’Neill has always been a little underrated. As a player at Nottingham Forest, he endured a testy relationship with Brian Clough and was once told by his manager that the linesman was having a better game than him. “You’re arrogant, with very little to be arrogant about”, Clough would regularly say to the Irishman, who ended up doing a pretty good job of proving his manager wrong. But maybe that was Cloughie’s genius, knowing which buttons to push. Continue reading…

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