Board urged to back O’Neill with cash for Champions League

CELTIC skipper Paul Lambert has urged the club’s board to do everything in their power to keep the management team at Parkhead and give Martin O’Neill the cash to take them into the latter stages of the Champions League.

Just hours after being presented with their third championship trophy in four years, the players and supporters are bracing themselves for an influx of English clubs knocking on the door trying to prize O’Neill and his backroom men away.

However, fears about Liverpool or any other English Premiership club would not be high if the Celtic directors handed the former Leicester boss the financial resources he needs to rebuild his squad.