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MARTIN O'NEILL AGREES DEAL TO BECOME PERMANENT CELTIC MANAGER | FRIDAY 5TH JUNE
05 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0141 951 1025 It's time to talk football It's Clyde One Super Scoreboard
Good evening and welcome to Clyde One Super Scoreboard.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of Martin O'Neill's appointment as Celtic manager?
Martin O'Neill has agreed to become the permanent Celtic manager on an initial one-year deal. He's beaten off competition from Robbie Keane to take the job and we want to hear from you. 01419511025, it's on the day that Craig McLeish has also been confirmed as the St Mirren boss on a three-year deal.
Chapter 3: How did the fans react to the appointment of Martin O'Neill?
I'm Andrew McLean, joining me in the studio today.
is Tony Watt and that's what we love coming into the Clyde One Super Scoreboard studio where there's huge news to talk about Tony Yep, today I was on the golf course and I told one of the boys I was on the radio tonight and it was before McLeish was announced and they said what will you speak about and obviously I said Scotland, he got announced and I said oh Craig McLeish
walk in here and see the Martin O'Neill news and I think that's going to probably cover the full hour it's a it's an appointment that people aren't surprised by but I think there's a lot to dissect out it to be honest Are you surprised that just given what's happened over the last few days it looked very you know like it could have been Robbie Keane over the last few days a lot of people maybe had him down as the favourite are you surprised now that the news has now broken that it is Martin O'Neill he's got it and Celtic are good to go with him
I'm not surprised. I think Martin O'Neill has earned the right.
Chapter 4: What are the implications for Martin O'Neill's backroom staff?
I think that he is a standout candidate. My only worry is how it got to that. After the Wilfred Nancy saga, Martin O'Neill came in, put out a few fires, done well. Celtic boards have had five or six months, maybe just a little bit less, to find somebody, to appoint somebody and...
Like we said, behind the closed doors, they've came with a shortlist of an ex-Celtic striker and an ex-Celtic manager.
Chapter 5: What players are likely to be affected by O'Neill's management?
Now, I don't think that it's really shown them up in the best of light. I think the Celtic fans, the fact that Robbie Keane was in the final two, regardless of what your take on politics or whatever...
were really really angry and I think this shows that they've actually listened but the problem is there's a big disconnect between the board and the fans at the moment and now the board haven't set themselves up in a good light because the shortlist they've ended up in
Well, let's hear from your Celtic fans. 0141 951 1025.
Chapter 6: What are the expectations for Celtic's performance under O'Neill?
Simple question. Martin O'Neill is going to be the permanent Celtic manager. Are you happy with that appointment? Or do you think Celtic should have gone in another direction? And all this week on the show, we've been giving you the chance to win weekend tickets to Transmit Festival at Glasgow Green.
Chapter 7: How does Martin O'Neill's past experience influence his return to Celtic?
from the 19th to the 21st of June. They're going to be showing the Scotland game against Morocco on the Friday night after a packed day of music, and tonight is our final giveaway. So we're doing things slightly differently. Normally, everyone who calls in and makes it on air is entered into the draw, but we're not doing that tonight.
Since it's the last one, we're going to be playing Transmit Trophy Timeline, and we'll open the lines a bit later on
Chapter 8: What are the potential challenges facing Celtic this season?
in tonight's show and let you know how you can win those tickets but for now get your calls in on Martin O'Neill 0141 951 1025 on the phones and it is such big news that we haven't really touched on the fact that it is just over a week away until Scotland are in World Cup action the players are over there There's the final World Cup pre-warm-up friendly tomorrow against Bolivia.
And I think over the next week, the atmosphere around here, around Boston, is just going to ramp up massively.
Yeah, I think it's incredible how close we're getting to it and how excited everybody is. Now, there's a few question marks, obviously, on what the start on 11 is going to be. And I think the Scotland fans, after Steve Clarke's just signed a new deal, I think they want Scotland to go out and attack. And we know that Steve Clarke's probably not the most attacking manager. He's more probably...
defensive which is fine he's done well got us to the tournaments but I think now with the options with Finlay Curtis, Ben Doak even Ross Stewart who can play in the wing who's a really talented footballer I think the fans really want us to go and go head on with teams and I get we're probably not going to do that with Brazil but the Scotland fans would fancy their chances against Morocco and for sure Haiti so it'll be an interesting week leading up and
All the speculation, all the team kind of, the team should probably pick itself, but it'll be interesting to see where they go.
Those are the thoughts of Tony Watt. What about your thoughts at home? 01419511025, of course, we are going to start with the big story that is Martyn O'Neill. He has, it's understood, he's agreed a one-year deal. to become the permanent manager of Celtic. It's understood he had talks with Dermot Desmond in London, the principal shareholder, of course.
And it's expected Sean Maloney and Mark Fotheringham will return to assist the manager over the next year. Could be an option of another year as well. Just given his age, is that a surprise to you that there's a year with an option? Or do you think that kind of leaves it open for everyone? Because if
if he goes has another good season and Celtic you know win a double do better than that this season it gives them the option to stay on if it isn't such a good season or Martin O'Neill maybe feels it's time next summer that they can just part ways naturally well
I think the fact that he's doing the year speaks a lot about his drive and his motivation. I think he's probably the right candidate at the moment. I think having Maloney and Mark Fotheringham is big. Maloney's obviously probably a Celtic legend, if not a big figure in the kind of recent past.
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