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Martin the Magnificent - The Future of Irish Football (Paperback)
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Martin the Magnificent - The Future of Irish Football (Paperback)
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Martin O'Neill is one of British football's true greats. Plucked
from Irish club Distillery by Nottingham Forest in 1971, the young
Irishman went on an incredible football journey that saw him clash
against some of the game's biggest characters. He twice won the
European Cup with Forest under the enigmatic Brian Clough--though
the two never saw eye-to-eye. A talented midfielder, O'Neill played
for Manchester City in between spells at Norwich before ending his
playing career at Notts County in 1985. As the first Roman Catholic
captain of his country, O'Neill marshaled Northern Ireland's golden
generation, who battled through to the quarter-finals of the World
Cup in 1982, knocking out hosts Spain on the way. But football was
by no means the only path O'Neill could have taken. Opting for
football over Gaelic football as a youth, O'Neill was forced to
curtail a law degree at Queens University Belfast to make the
switch to England, although his interest in criminology had not
diminished. He cut his football management teeth at Grantham Town
and Shepshed Dynamo, and his stock grew as he took Wycombe
Wanderers from the GM Vauxhall Conference to the old Second
Division in a matter of years. However it was at Celtic that
O'Neill would enjoy his most trophy-laden years, winning an
unprecedented treble in his first year before narrowly missing out
on UEFA Cup glory a year later. O'Neill would leave Celtic, his
"spiritual home," to care for wife Geraldine as she was battling
cancer. Returning to football in 2006, O'Neill is charged with
taking a hugely talented Aston Villa side into the Premier League's
top four.
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