ANSWERS
1. What county is Martin from originally?
Answer: Derry
2. Who was his favourite footballer growing up?
Answer: Former Ireland and Sunderland defender Charlie Hurley
3.What GAA club did he play for?
Answer: Padraig Pearse’s Kilrea. The club founded by his father Leo
4. Why was he banned from playing a Gaelic football match at Casement Park?
Answer: Because he was playing soccer with Distillery at the time
5. Which Spanish team did he score against as a 19-year-old for Distillery in the European Cup Winners Cup?
Answer: Barcelona, during a 3-1 defeat at Windsor Park in 1971
6. In which year did he agree to join Nottingham Forest?
Answer: 1971 for £25,000
The Forest team in 1973 with O’Neill second left in the back row. Credit: Peter Robinson/EMPICS Sport
7. What was Martin studying at Queen’s University when the offer to sign for Forest came in?
Answer: Law
8. What did O’Neill win during his time at Nottingham Forest?
Answer: One First Division title, two European Cups, a European Super Cup and two League Cups
9. Who scored the winning goal for Northern Ireland when O’Neill captained them to a 1-0 win over hosts Spain in the 1982 World Cup?
Answer: Gerry Armstrong
10. What did O’Neill used to joke about with international team-mate Sammy McIlroy when they played at Windsor Park?
Answer: “I’d say that I didn’t mind being booed off the pitch, it was when you were booed onto it that you might have a concern.”
11. When he retired from playing, who were his first club as a manager?
Answer: Grantham Town, at the time playing in the Beazer Homes League Midlands Division (two leagues below the Conference)
O’Neill facing France at the 1982 World Cup. Credit: Peter Robinson/EMPICS Sport
12. What did he achieve for the first time in Wycombe Wanderers’ history in 1992/93?
Answer: He got them promoted to the Football League
13. Why did Martin O’Neill resign as Norwich City after just six months in charge?
Answer: He was upset with chairman Robert Chase after the club’s failed efforts to sign Dean Windass
14. Who did Leicester City beat in the Coca Cola Cup final in a replay in 1997?
Answer: Middlesbrough
15. Name three players who started in the Foxes’ Worthington Cup defeat to Spurs two years later?
Answer: The starting XI was: Kasey Keller, Matt Elliot, Steve Walsh, Gerry Taggart, Robert Ullathorne, Steve Guppy, Neil Lennon, Muzzy Izzet, Robbie Savage, Tony Cottee, Emile Heskey
O’Neill celebrates in the 1997 final replay. Credit: Michael Steele/EMPICS Sport
16. How many SPL titles did O’Neill win with Celtic?
Answer: Three ( 2001, 2002 and 2004)
17. Who managed Celtic’s opponents in the 2003 UEFA Cup final?
Answer: Jose Mourinho was in charge of Porto
18. What was O’Neill awarded in 2004?
Answer: An OBE for his services to sport
19. What position in the Premier League did Aston Villa finish in three consecutive seasons under O’Neill?
Answer: Sixth (in 2008, 2009 and 2010)
20. How did O’Neill describe his partnership with Roy Keane as on ITV this week?
Answer: “I think I’m the bad cop and I think he’s the bad, bad cop,” he said.
Credit: INPHO/Donall Farmer
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