O’Neill has come out of retirement not once but twice this season to bail Celtic out.<\/p>\n
The 74-year-old won seven trophies during his first stint at Celtic between 2000-05, including three league titles.<\/p>\n
When he got the emergency call to replace Rodgers, O’Neill had been out of management for more than six years.<\/p>\n
Under his guidance, Celtic reeled off five successive league wins to move level with Hearts, with a game in hand.<\/p>\n
Then he had to do it all again.<\/p>\n
Barely four weeks after waving his goodbyes, O’Neill was back and Hearts were six points clear, with both sides 20 matches into the campaign.<\/p>\n
Defeat by Dundee United at Tannadice left Celtic five off the pace with seven rounds remaining, with Rangers sitting second. O’Neill said he would need seven wins to have a chance. He has delivered the first six.<\/p>\n
McInnes finished ninth with Kilmarnock last season, two places below Hearts.<\/p>\n
During his time at Aberdeen, he finished as a runner-up to Celtic three years running.<\/p>\n
His silverware collection is dwarfed by O’Neill’s but Hearts do have their own wily old master in the background, with Sir Alex Ferguson offering guidance to McInnes.<\/p>\n
The last man to break the Old Firm duopoly has been seen in a maroon tie at Tynecastle and is in regular contact with the Hearts boss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O’Neill has come out of retirement not once but twice this season to bail Celtic out. The 74-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-486720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116580931738997626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}