O’Neill’s career has taken him from winning the European Cup as a player (inset top right), to an OBE in 2004 (inset bottom right) to coaching Ireland BRIAN LAWLESS/PANot too long from now, Martin O’Neill will become a grandfather for the first time. I’m ready.” O’Neill is ever-ready, still fizzing with that restless energy. Comfortable slippers, sucking on a Werther’s Original, a new-born gurgling on his knee? O’Neill is not there yet, not even close. At 66, he is younger than Claudio Ranieri, Roy Hodgson and Neil Warnock, all of whom are plotting and cajoling in the Premier League and, after his dismissal by Ireland…

Source: The Times December 21, 2018 17:03 UTC