Strachan: life without Lennon will be like losing Keane edge

CELTIC MANAGER Gordon Strachan has compared the impact of skipper Neil Lennon’s impending exit to that of Roy Keane leaving Manchester United.

The 35-year-old Armagh man announced this week that he will leave Parkhead at the end of the season, after almost seven successful years playing for his boyhood heroes.

Former Coventry and Southampton boss Strachan believes Lennon’s departure will have as much of an effect on the Glasgow giants as Keane’s decision to quit Old Trafford in November 2005 after 12-and-a-half years at United.