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.
Derek McInnes targets Celtic achilles heel as Aberdeen boss hopes to take 'full advantage'
dailyrecord.co.ukCeltic. The Dons make the trip to Glasgow's east end for the second time in 10 days and McInnes hopes to capitalise on crosses into the box.The Hoops showed their ongoing vulnerability at set-plays when Jordan White scored with a free header following a free-kick in a 1-0 defeat against Ross County leading to Neil Lennon's departure as manager.In contrast, Aberdeen's players will have a spring in their step having broken a six-game scoring duck last weekend.
Callum Hendry came off the bench to head a winner from Niall McGinn's free-kick against Kilmarnock to get the Dons back to winning ways.
McInnes said: "I spoke about positives from the game last week but that was the disappointment, that we had umpteen crosses and numerous set-plays.
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