For all that, I'd still recommend 'On Days Like These', as you get a clear insight into one of the sharpest minds in football.

Martin O’Neill’s Forest reign Goodbye to the Miracle Man: how Martin O’Neill’s Forest reign

Except Guedioura refused and, when challenged, he started protesting that the game was over and, as far as he was concerned, that meant he was on international duty. Salt was rubbed into that wound by the insistence of O’Neill’s successor, Paolo Di Canio, that the squad lacked fitness. Yet O’Neill cut that short when the player, nursing an injury, missed an appointment with the club’s doctor. As a manager, O’Neill took Wycombe Wanderers to the football league for the first time, led Leicester City to two League Cups, and his tenure at Celtic saw them win seven trophies and their glorious run to the UEFA Cup Final in 2003. O’Neill earlier had brief interaction with the famous Villa custodian Doug Ellis, who castigated the Irishman for using Martin Laursen as a late substitute during a draw at Arsenal.It gets too similarly paced toward the managerial side of life and a brief, short sentence structure soon follows in what becomes a highlights reel. O’Neill represented Northern Ireland over sixty times, playing alongside George Best and captaining the side at the 1982 World Cup, where they reached the quarter-finals. He reveals what it was like to play under Clough during the glory years, and their incredible journey from the second division to winning the First Division championship, two League Cups and back-to-back European Cups.

Martin O’Neill: ‘I deserved criticism. But it was an absolute

O’Neill subsequently won seven trophies with Celtic, as well as reaching a Uefa Cup final, and was talked about for a long time as the best qualified man to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United. Mar 2001: Henrik Larsson is congratulated by Martin O”Neill as his hat-trick won the cup for his team after the Scottish League Cup Final against Kilmarnock at Hampden. I was hoping he would take the Sunderland job when he was last in the frame for it because I think he could still make a super manager.On Days Like These, which charts five decades in football, signs off with a withering take-down of Keith Andrews, Stephen Kenny’s assistant with Ireland. Martin recognises that his days at Leicester City, where he won the League Cup, happened around a half a mile away from the club’c current home at Filbert Street. As their manager he lasted only 19 games and at the age of 67, it cannot be ruled out that this might end his long and, for the most part, distinguished career. Martin O’Neill tries to halt Kevin Keegan (left) during Nottingham Forest’s win over Hamburg in the 1980 European Cup final.