{"id":344636,"date":"2025-10-31T03:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/344636\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:12:14","slug":"chris-sutton-says-he-got-one-thing-wrong-about-martin-oneill-in-the-celtic-park-dugout-vs-falkirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/344636\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sutton says he got one thing ‘wrong’ about Martin O’Neill in the Celtic Park dugout vs Falkirk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many Celtic supporters were reliving their childhood on Wednesday night by seeing Martin O\u2019Neill on the touchline again. <\/strong><\/p>\n

After the drama of Monday night and Brendan Rodgers\u2019 shock resignation, O\u2019Neill<\/a> was handed the Celtic<\/a> keys once more, and he returned with a bang. <\/p>\n

Celtic slapped Falkirk 4-0<\/a>, and supporters got to see the old O\u2019Neill jump once more, just like he did 25 years ago during his legendary first spell. <\/p>\n

Chris Sutton<\/a> was part of that famous Celtic team back then, and now he was watching his old gaffer do what he does best. <\/p>\n

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Poll: Are you happy that Brendan Rodgers has left Celtic?\"MartinPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesChris Sutton on Martin O\u2019Neill returning to the Celtic touchline <\/p>\n

Before a ball was kicked, Sutton guessed that his former manager would don a suit on the touchline for his second debut as Celtic boss.<\/p>\n

But instead, O\u2019Neill went for the old tracksuit, and Sutton admitted on Sky Sports Football<\/a> (29\/10\/25), he got that one \u2018wrong\u2019, as he described the win as a \u2018big bounce\u2019, \u2018old manager bounce\u2019, as well as the \u2018dream team\u2019 with Shaun Maloney. <\/p>\n

Eilidh Barbour:<\/strong> \u201cThere he is, with the tracksuit on, Chris. Dermot Desmond was there to watch on, too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sutton:<\/strong> \u201cI wondered whether Martin would go suit or a tracksuit. My money was on the suit. I am always wrong, and four goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJohnny Kenny on the money. It was a good shot from Nygen. They needed that to get themselves going. The most important thing was the three points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s what it was about. Points, goals and getting the entertainment back. Just clicking a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kris Boyd joked:<\/strong> \u201cMartin into his Ferrari and up the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sutton:<\/strong> \u201cThat will be the headline, won\u2019t it? Kenny on the scoresheet again. I have been critical of him in the past, but those goals will do him no harm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThen Nygren, who has popped up with a few goals this season. Scott Bain should do much better. He just pops it to Nygren. <\/p>\n

\u201cThen Tounekti, I think he has really excited everybody. But he hasn\u2019t really got the numbers, in terms of goals and assists. And that won\u2019t do him any harm.<\/p>\n

\u201cManager bounce. Big bounce. Old manager bounce. Dream team. Martin and Maloney. MnM.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill to be suited and booted for Hampden? <\/p>\n

Nobody knows how long O\u2019Neill will be in charge for<\/a>, but one thing is for sure: he will be in the Hampden Park dugout for another ding-dong with Rangers.<\/p>\n

The Treble-winning boss had many great battles with Rangers, and whilst they are no longer the same force, it\u2019s going to be some contest on Sunday.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill might have donned a tracksuit against Falkirk, but given the occasion at the weekend, it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if the suit comes out for Celtic\u2019s League Cup semi-final against Rangers<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Celtic supporters were reliving their childhood on Wednesday night by seeing Martin O\u2019Neill on the touchline again.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":344637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[156429,169522,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-344636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-chris-sutton","9":"tag-martin-oneill","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115466597137342012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}