Martin O'Neill: Trophies, titles and missing out on the FA Cup
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Global
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Raised in an Irish Catholic family as one of nine siblings, Martin O'Neill was brought up with Gaelic football but he dreamt of becoming a professional English footballer. At 18, he was scouted by Nottingham Forest and quit his law degree to sign for the club. He went on to become an integral part of Brian Clough's legendary Nottingham Forest squad, winning back-to-back European Cups, and made history as the first Catholic player to captain Northern Ireland's national team.
After hanging up his boots, Martin achieved remarkable success as a manager, leading Celtic and Leicester City to major titles and taking the Republic of Ireland to the knockout stages of the 2016 Euros. He is now the chairman of the League Managers Association and co-hosts the Global podcast The Football Authorities with Clive Tyldesley. You can listen to The Football Authorities here: https://the-football-authorities.captivate.fm/
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| 0:31.9 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:41.5 | Thank you. Global Player Original Podcast. Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure. |
| 0:44.0 | A podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get on the radio. |
| 0:50.7 | Martin O'Neill, welcome. |
| 0:52.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:53.2 | Professional footballer, trophy collector, and now host of a new |
| 0:57.4 | podcast here at Global with Clyde Tilsley, the Football Authorities. Right. Thank you very much for that |
| 1:02.5 | introduction and that's about it, really. Well, we'll find out. I'll be the judge of that. We generally |
| 1:09.0 | begin at the beginning, which takes us to Kilray in County |
| 1:12.3 | Derry in 1952. You've described your family as a typical Irish nationalist Catholic family. What does |
| 1:18.5 | that mean? I'll tell you what that means. It means that I have four brothers and four sisters, |
| 1:24.0 | big family, really. It's as simple as that. No TV in her house until 1960. And so... |
| 1:33.2 | No wonder you've got so many brothers and sisters. Absolutely. Absolutely right. So I'm kind of |
| 1:38.4 | bang in the middle as well too. So, and we are spread over a fair length of time, you know? |
| 1:44.1 | And, and I mean, that means fair length of time, you know. |
| 1:48.6 | And, and, I mean, that means essentially that you're never lonely, but also never alone. |
| 1:49.2 | That's true. |
| 1:57.4 | And that was great, actually, growing up with brothers, older brothers that you looked up to and younger brothers that you could have some fun with. |
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