Uncomfortable, disgusting
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Agreed. The sooner that cork wanker is shown the door the better.
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That’s a cracker of a post.
He earns roughly 3 times the salary of Donald Trump. Billions have an opinion on his performance. He earns about 4 times the salary of the Irish Taoiseach who is answerable to everyone and much more pressurised.
I just hope you’re taking the piss as your logic is absolutely mental. If he can’t handle a few leading questions from a hack from Cork then he shouldn’t be in the job. He’s just a stubborn cranky fucker who believes he’s above all criticism for some bizarre reason.
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He can’t handle?
Wtf?
He is putting the cark cunt in his place
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A good second prize for not putting Christian Eriksen in his place .
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He should have bought a defensive midfielder?
As I understand international managers can’t buy players .
Check mate
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True .
FFS
Fair play to MON, it appears he had that TOD cunts cards marked from day one. Attention to detail.
He probably shouldn’t have replaced his midfield with a winger and attacking midfielder
Yes I thought he should have played slowly slowly catchy monkey
How Martin O’Neill cosied up to Leeds United when still at Celtic
paul rowan
It would be remiss to let the Martin O’Neill saga to pass without recalling how Leeds United once got his signature on a piece of paper saying that he would join the club, only for the Derryman to slip through their fingers and stay with Celtic.
In Lausanne on Wednesday for the Nations League draw, O’Neill was reluctant to talk in any detail about his courtship this month with Stoke City, arguing that it was not the right time to get into the matter. In time he will perhaps dismiss it as “old hat”, just as he did after his secret deal with Leeds emerged when Peter Ridsdale, the club’s former chairman, took some enjoyment out of spilling the beans.
Ridsdale was keen on O’Neill, whom he regarded as the perfect manager to knock Alex Ferguson and Manchester United off their perch, as Leeds attempted to muscle back into the big time around the turn of the millennium.
The first time that Ridsdale offered O’Neill the Leeds job was when George Graham left Elland Road to take charge of Tottenham Hotspur in October 1998. Leeds asked O’Neill’s employers, Leicester City, for permission to speak to him but were refused. While O’Neill was clearly receptive to the advances, he was reluctant to break his contract, and the Leeds caretaker manager, David O’Leary, was appointed instead. O’Neill joined Celtic in 2000.
When Ridsdale sacked O’Leary in June 2002 he again thought that he had O’Neill lined up for the job, only to be thwarted again when the Celtic manager decided to stay north of the border. Still relations remained cordial, but it was the third courtship, in the final year of O’Neill’s Celtic contract, that ended in recrimination, charge and counter-charge.
“Discussions over the phone led to a secret meeting at my house,” Ridsdale wrote in his autobiography, United We Fall. “This was a management coup I couldn’t wait to announce.
“The deal to bring Martin to Leeds was signed, sealed and waiting to be delivered to supporters. It was January 3, 2003. He was free to discuss his future with other clubs as he had only six months remaining on his contract with Celtic.
“That day I had agreed to pay him £2 million a year to become the new Leeds manager. We shook hands and he drove back north to break the news to Celtic. He left me with a signed document I could take to my board as evidence he’d finally agreed to come.
“It read: ‘This document states that I will enter a pre-contract agreement with Leeds United AFC on Monday January 6, 2003 to become their football manager when my present contract expires on June 30, 2003 with Celtic FC. I will come earlier if Celtic agree to release me from my contract. I am happy for Leeds to publicly announce the above statement on January 6. Yours sincerely, Martin O’Neill’.
“No one has ever known about this document before.
“In six months the Messiah would arrive, subject to me being chairman — that was one of his stipulations.”
It never happened. Ridsdale was gone from the club in March and O’Neill then signed a new contract with Celtic.
Still, when details of the deal emerged in Ridsdale’s autobiography, it put O’Neill on the spot and he took time away from his duties as Aston Villa manager to launch a staunch defence of his position, pointing out he had been in the last year of his Celtic contract and he, “Just assumed they wanted me to see my three years out at that time”. As for signing the agreement with Ridsdale, O’Neill said: “It was not a contract as such and certainly not a legal document, but Peter was saying he needed something to show his board that there was serious intent from me. I was happy to do that because I had to see if I had the potential to be working after June 30, 2003, when my Celtic contract was due to expire.
“When I realised that what Peter had said to me at the meeting had not stacked up, I spoke to Celtic owner Dermot Desmond and it became clear Celtic did actually want me to stay on.
“It turned out the board had felt that there was a bit of an understanding and that my relationship with Dermot was such that we would get around to drawing up a new contract at some stage.”
O’Neill’s version of events, given in November 2007, drew an interesting retort from Ridsdale. “I cannot be 100 per cent convinced Martin O’Neill would have joined Leeds because it had not been announced, even though he had given us the authorisation to do so, but I stand by my belief he would,” he said. “But Martin always said we were destined to work together. We had already tried twice, so why would he come down to see me?
“Why would he and Geraldine [his wife] sit and have dinner with myself and my wife? Why would he sign the contract?”
Ridsdale never got his man, but John Delaney, the FAI chief executive, would later succeed where the Leeds chairman failed, with some help from Desmond, with whom he clearly still has a good understanding.
I believe o kneel brought newspapers to court for similar articles
Paul Rowan is a cunt
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He has, curious that he didn’t do so re this story
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Tony had this bluffer O’Neill sussed years ago. Good luck with the post match interview Tony.
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I hope MON headbutts him
Surely TOD isn’t out there anyway
Tony’s out of action with a black eye.