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Scottish Football Podcast

Lennon on life in football, losing and ambition for the future

Scottish Football Podcast

BBC

Sports News, Soccer, Sport, News

3.8767 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Dunfermline manager Neil Lennon sits down for a conversation with Brian McLauchlin about his life in the game, managing Celtic and Hibernian, and his future ambitions for the Fife club.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.1

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0:08.7

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0:13.5

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0:19.1

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0:21.7

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0:28.6

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0:31.3

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0:34.1

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0:36.1

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0:39.3

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0:45.8

Hello, I'm Thomas Duncan and welcome to a special episode of the Scottish Football Podcast

0:51.1

where our reporter Brian McLaughlin sat down with the Dumfirmland manager Neil Lennon to reflect on his career in the game, discuss how football has changed and his ambitions with the PARS.

1:02.0

Neil, welcome back. You told me in, I think it was March when you came in and I asked you the question, why only seven games? Because there was only seven games left to go.

1:13.5

There's a lot more than seven games left to go now, Neil.

1:15.6

What swung it for you?

1:21.7

What made it this job that was what you wanted to be in the next stage of your career?

1:22.9

I think the experience of the end of the season,

1:25.8

the seven games, I really enjoyed being around the club. I enjoyed working with the people behind the end of season, the seven games I really enjoyed, you know, being around

1:28.3

the club, enjoyed working with the people behind the scenes, you know, they made me really

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