Martin O'Neill: The Biography

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Martin wasn’t a training ground manager, he was more of a psychologist, but he was very good at getting the best out of his players. At half-time, the things he would say to you, would turn things around in your head. He was always positive with you, never negative, and that was brilliant to hear in the dressing-room.” Double European Cup winner as a player with Nottingham Forest, playing under legendary Brian Clough.

After 285 league appearances for Forest, with 48 goals, joins Norwich in February for the first of two spells as a player at Carrow Road. After 11 league appearances (one goal), transfers to Manchester City. I am leaving Celtic purely for personal reasons and I am extremely sorry to be departing in such circumstances.”The football was generally poorer than what the support had become accustomed to (during his tenure) in this last season and Hartson was way overweight, overpaid and over here. Hartson scored a number of goals but was in a really poor state for a professional footballer. Add in that replacing Larsson was never going to be easy, Martin O’Neill did not find a good replacement in Camara. Bringing in Brazilian playmaker Juninho also didn’t work out either, and criticisms resurfaced questioning Martin O’Neill’s ability to handle flare players (resurrecting criticisms some unfairly made of him with respect to Lubo). May – Leicester finish eighth in the Premiership, their highest placing, and qualify for the UEFA Cup. A consistant source of inspiration is finding things on the floor.And that can be that of a beach, a fleamarket or a pub. In 2019, he moved to Nottingham Forrest for the managerial role again along with Roy Keane, but the stint was short, just five months, in what was a no-win situation at a faltering club. A tough group awaited Celtic with Juventus in pot one, and for Martin O’Neill it was quite a step up in a short space of time for management at Celtic. A double European Cup winner with Notts Forest, Martin O’Neill knew what it takes to compete in the tournament but times had changed and Celtic were entering with some trepidation.

What kind of visuals do you find work best for limited edition prints or originals? Does this differ from commissioned Illustration?Rumours abounded about his personal family circumstances, and at the year it was made publicly know that his wife was suffering from lymphoma. In effect, he was hardly around and it showed. Didn’t help that this was Celtic’s first season without Larsson (as he’d left for Barcelona), but Celtic really should still have won the league and disturbingly lost with only a few minutes left of the last game of the season, allowing a poor Rangers side to gloat forever more (albeit the title is now tainted and should be scrubbed due to the EBT scandal revelations).

His last season was the most difficult, and in many ways should not be seen in any way as being representative of his reign. April: Celtic secure the Scottish Premier League title. May: Celtic are beaten in the Scottish Cup final by Rangers. Graham Rawle is a writer, artist, and designer. He has produced regular series which include ‘Lying Doggo’ and ‘Graham Rawle’s Wonder Quiz’ for The Observer and ‘When Words Collide’ and ‘Pardon Mrs. Arden’ for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and ‘Bright Ideas’ for The Times. He is a Visiting Professor in Illustration at the Norwich University of the Arts where in 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for services to design. He lives in London.The changes at Ibrox don’t affect our job one jot, certainly nothing that happens over there will influence what I do.” He has worked as an illustrator and artist for two decades and regularly exhibits his personal collages, sketchbooks, and prints. He is also a visiting lecturer across the UK. Martin lives and works on England’s South East coast with his wife and two daughters. I’ve never met O’Neill, but was once told an illuminating story about him. He was sitting before some assembled press, one of whom raised the point that O’Neill never worked with his players in training during the week. Don’t you think, the journalist continued, that you could go one step further and improve the players’ technical skills if you were to work with them more? September – O’Neill gives his support to club chairman John Elsom in the wake of the Filbert Street power struggle.