We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there? His book tells the eye-opening story of his wife and daughter being turfed out of a hotel room on the outskirts of the city before an Old Firm game on the seemingly controversial basis the Rangers team were staying there. Won Coca-Cola Cup final, beating Middlesbrough in a replay at Hillsborough to clinch a place in Europe for the first time in 35 years. And you’d be surprised what you can actually do with what a lot of people might think is a crap image. O’Neill was hurt by what he perceived as the premature ending of his time at Sunderland, the club he had loved since childhood.

Especially sometimes – and I’m not talking about here, I’m talking about in other parts of the United Kingdom – you have players who have done absolutely nothing in their career, nothing at all, who have been basement dwellers as footballers and ended up on a screen criticising something in front of them that they’ve never experienced either as a player or a manager. Martin O’Neill was now a respected name throughout even England, not only for his work at lower league levels with Leicester but acknowledgement that he had the nous to manage at the highest level with the biggest sides. In truth, Porto were the better team on the day, however, Celtic fought to the bitter end with a fabulous performance from Henrik Larsson. Celtic were way ahead of where all expected the club to be (helped admittedly by Rangers imploding), so season 2001-02 was to see the next stage by testing European waters.

Add in the recovery of Henrik Larsson, after his horrendous injury the previous year, and he had the nucleus of a great team, a blessing for any manager.

Must add about the wonder goal at home v Lyon scored by Liam Miller following a 20 pass move, a sublime piece of teamwork fashioned by Martin O’Neill’s men. In Neil Lennon’s biography, he noted how Martin O’Neill gave a rousing pre-match talk which set the players up.He later wrote his own well-received autobiography, and in 2023 he was given the honour to bring the Scottish League trophy onto the pitch to be presented to Celtic manager Ange Postecoglu on the presentation day at the end of the season.