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the athletic The Athletic. Hello I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. George Culkin alongside me and

we're joined today by Martin O'Neill, one of the most fascinating and respective figures in the game,

part of Brian Clough's legendary Nottingham Forest team winning League Championships, League Cups,

and back-to-back European Cup. He represented Northern Ireland over 60 times, playing alongside

George Best and Captain in the side at the 1982 World Cup. As a manager he won trophies in England

and Scotland and he then led the Republic of Ireland to the euros in 2016 when they made it to the second round for the first time in their history.

It's some career Martin. Why write the book now? I suppose really I just wanted to

put a couple of little stories that perhaps no one had heard and I suppose Brian Cluff was always somebody of interest.

I suppose just maybe because of the 50 years I've been involved in the game, Mark, I think I straddled

both the post-war cup in 1966 into the early 70s when pitches weren't as good as they are today

and then the changes that have taken place throughout the game both good and maybe not so good during that time.

Have you enjoyed it?

I've very much so, yeah really much so.

I mean I've written it myself, you know, so it's kind of a little bit strange I wrote in a long hand as well to so and I start off very nicely you know the first six or seven lines are pretty legible you know know, it's fine, and then when I get a

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