Gordon Duncan

to begin together at Leicester City signed Neil Lennon Martin O'Neill did for Celtic in 2000 won so much together and then of course Neil Lennon going on to win umpteen Celtic trophies as manager on his own you even talk about this competition Martin O'Neill's final game in charge of Celtic the first time the 2005 Scottish Cup final and Neil Lennon's final game as a Celtic player the 2007 Scottish Cup final against

You guessed it, Dom Fermon, Hugh Kevins.

I know you don't like the word narrative, but you're going to have to like it this afternoon because that is quite something.

We've had so many examples over the years, Gordon, of sort of master versus apprentice, which is actually something that Neil Lennon bristled against during the week.

He didn't really like that comparison or that phrase, but for our benefits, we'll stick with it for now.

We've seen so many over the years.

It's hard to imagine one as...

significant as this like I say everything that they achieved together everything that they've achieved separately all at Celtic as well it really is the football match is clearly the most important thing and who wins the trophy but that story regarding the two managers we've just seen footage of the two of them arm in arm back in the early 2000s it really it's just another great story to end what's been a season full of them Hugh rightly says there it's a fantastic story no doubt about that

Let's start with Martin O'Neill, though, because Neil Lennon aside, he's got his own very interesting situation going on, Hugh Keevans.

Is it his last game in charge of Celtic or is it not?

You don't need me to remind you in too much detail about the season, him coming in against all odds once, never mind twice, getting the title over the line and so on.

Is it his last game or is it not?

It's going to be so interesting, Cammy, because in many people's minds, the league title was...

forget many people in everyone's mind the league title is the big one that's the one you want to win so he's done that it just feels like such a fascinating dilemma where is Martin O'Neill going to be the next manager has that been decided yet could he still become the next manager if things were to go wrong today and it was a humiliating cup final defeat to lower league opposition I'm looking forward to the game today but it also feels like we're looking forward to finding out how this all ends

But the obvious counter to that, Brian, is to some people, Gordon will have answered his own question there and saying, if this needs a big rebuild, get a new manager in.

Well, he's got a football game to negotiate first up against Neil Lennon, of all people, as we've just been discussing.

No surprise then in the build-up to this one, they were both full of admiration and warm words for each other, let's take a listen.

I think it's going to take more than the heat of battle to turn these two against each other in the dugout this afternoon.

But Cammie, you spoke about having worked briefly under Neil Lennon.

People have always said that one of his great strengths is maybe masterminding these types of events and being the underdog and providing people with that belief.