TV pundits ‘genuinely do not have a clue’, says Martin O'Neill

Martin O’Neill has fired a scathing broadside at pundits who questioned his management of the Irish team over the course of a sometimes rocky qualification road to France 2016.

At various times throughout the campaign, O’Neill came in for heavy flak from the RTÉ panel, among other media critics, and although he doesn’t name names, it seems the manager reserves a particular disdain for some of the comments made about him and his players by studio-based ex-professionals.

“If I was to listen to everybody picking my team, I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning,” O’Neill says in an end of year interview on Setanta Sports. “And if I was to listen to people who I don’t have a phenomenal amount of time for, I would just pull the covers over my face.