Neil Lennon still backs Martin O’Neill for top club

Neil Lennon says Martin O’Neill could still manage a Premier League club, but he wonders how young players would deal with his old-school ways.

The Hibernian manager played for O’Neill at both Leicester and Celtic and speaks in glowing terms of the Ireland boss under whom he won nine league and cup titles.

Lennon dismissed any suggestion O’Neill, 65, is a managerial ‘dinosaur’, insisting his tactical knowhow is up to scratch — something that often lags behind his motivational skills when outsiders assess the Derry man’s abilities.