Words fail O'Neill in tribute to legend Larsson

CELTIC manager Martin O'Neill is convinced only a literary giant could encapsulate the attributes of Henrik Larsson in a single sentence.

O'Neill is renowned for never being short of a word or 12 but he insisted even his swollen vocabulary was inadequate to praise the efforts of the Swede, who is hours away from his last competitive game for Celtic.

O'Neill said: "Unless you are Thomas Hardy, Wordsworth or Shakespeare I don't know another way to say how good a player Henrik is. I just don't have the words in the dictionary to be able to describe it in a different fashion.