Martin O’Neill apologised after ‘losing it’ in Celtic’s dressing room after loss

Martin O’Neill gave a famously inspirational speech in the Celtic dressing room before they stepped out to face Liverpool at Anfield in their Uefa Cup quarter-final in 2003.

“By the time he had finished,” Neil Lennon once said, “we were ready to go out and run through walls.” The result? Liverpool 0 Celtic 2 which meant that, after a 1-1 first-leg draw in Celtic Park, it was the men in green and white hoops who progressed to the semi-finals.

Less well-known is what O’Neill said in the dressing room after their next match, away to much less illustrious opposition in the Scottish Cup.