Martin O'Neill

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By Alex Montgomery

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Paperback (Paperback, Hardback)

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Football, Biography, Martin O'Neill, Managers, Nottingham Forest FC, Norwich City FC, Wycombe Wanderers FC, Leicester City FC, Celtic FC, Northern Ireland

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Further Details

• Published: 10th Feb 2005
• ISBN: 075350958X
• Pages: 304

From the Publisher:

O'Neill is one of the most successful and intriguing of the new manager/coaches to emerge from British football. Alex Montgomery's excellent biography deals with every aspect of O'Neills life and remarkable career from his early days as a player in Northern Ireland and joining the tyrannical Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest.

It chronicles his managerial triumphs from non-league Grantham Town, and Wycombe Wanderers, to Norwich City and Leicester City then on to Celtic. Montgomery offers a rare insight into the beliefs, the lifestyle, the ambitions, the hopes and the fears of a private and complex man. He examines the effect sectarianism had on O'Neills formative years - O'Neill was the first Roman Catholic captain of Northern Ireland and produced unprecedented success at the 1982 World Cup finals in Spain.

But his defining career moment came before Nottingham Forest's first European Cup Final when he was dropped by Clough. The impact that had on the young Martin O'Neill formed his philosophy in dealing with players in years to come.