“Why were you nasty to me on a number of occasions but nice to Henrik all the time?” a mischievous Chris Sutton tweeted to his old Celtic boss Martin O’Neill, who was doing a Q&A session on the social media channel this afternoon as part of his book promotion activity for “On Days Like These”.
Why were you nasty to me on a number of occasions @moneill31 but nice to Henrik all the time? https://t.co/n9gDO30OLn
— Chris Sutton (@chris_sutton73) December 7, 2022
And Martin was never going to let that pass without putting Sutton in his place, playfully of course. “Because he scored more goals than you!” the former Celtic manager told big Sutton.
To be fair he did add: “However, had you not come to Celtic when you did we may not have beaten Rangers that glorious afternoon (6-2 game). You were a landscape-changer when you came to the club & had you not done so, we wouldn’t have achieved the success we did.”
Because he scored more goals than you! However, had you not come to @CelticFC when you did we may not have beaten Rangers that glorious afternoon. You were a landscape-changer when you came to the club & had you not done so, we wouldn’t have achieved the success we did.
— Martin O’Neill (@moneill31) December 7, 2022
The Q&A featured questions about his early days in Ireland as well as his post-Celtic time in charge of Aston Villa, and other non-Celtic related questions too. On the Celtic related questions and MON’s answers these ones stick out.
It was evident that Juninho was not the dynamic midfielder that he once was at Middlesbrough.
— Martin O’Neill (@moneill31) December 7, 2022
Extraordinary football club. It was a privilege to manage Celtic, and in a sliding doors moment, we would have beaten Porto in the UEFA Cup Final.
— Martin O’Neill (@moneill31) December 7, 2022
Perhaps Henrik Larsson’s goal in my first Old Firm game in 2000 which gave us a 4-1 lead at the time.
— Martin O’Neill (@moneill31) December 7, 2022
Great experience in Champions League this season. Some games could have easily gone Celtic’s way, the Club is definitely going in the right direction. A couple of strong additions never does any harm either.
— Martin O’Neill (@moneill31) December 7, 2022
Meanwhile Martin O’Neill has certainly been doing the rounds on the publicity tour and there are two excellent podcasts that are well worth a listen starting with Si Ferry’s one-to-one with the former Celtic manager which really is a great listen…
Then there’s The Celtic View podcast where Paul Cuddihy speaks to Martin, with the interview split over two episodes, here’s part 1…you could listen to Martin O’Neill talk all day!
