Neil Francis Lennon (born 25 June 1971) is a Northern Irish football coach and former player who is the manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic. During his playing career he represented English clubs Manchester City, Crewe Alexandra and Leicester City.
Lennon moved to Scottish club Celtic in 2000, where he made over 200 appearances and was appointed captain in 2005. Before retiring as a player, he returned to England and played for Nottingham Forest and Wycombe Wanderers. Lennon made 40 appearances for Northern Ireland in nine years, scoring two goals. Lennon was appointed manager of Celtic in March 2010, initially in a caretaker capacity after the departure of Tony Mowbray.
Damien Duff set for Celtic departure as Ireland appointment forces Neil Lennon rethink
dailyrecord.co.ukDamien Duff looks set to leave Celtic at the end of the season after being named as part of Steven Kenny’s new-look Republic of Ireland coaching team.Former Dunfermline Athletic manager Kenny confirmed Duff as his assistant along with Keith Andrews and Alan Kelly as his goalkeeping coach yesterday.Duff will continue as first-team coach to Neil Lennon and Celtic until the end of this campaign but sources across the water then expect him to take up a full-time position with the Football Association of Ireland after that.Unless Duff can be convinced to do both them it is likely that Lennon will need to add another coach of his own to his Celtic staff come the summer, to assist him and John Kennedy.FAI interim CEO Gary Owens confirmed: "The
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