3 TIMES A CHARM!

O'Neill back after Nancy sacking & legend is only too happy to clean up another mess

- BY MICHAEL GANNON

THE last time Martin O'Neill was sitting on the King's Road in London sipping a coffee.

This time he was enjoying a brew in Glasgow's Duke Street. And each time the name flashed up on his mobile - the Derry man answered the call.

O'Neill might be worried every time he sticks the kettle on, the way it's going with Celtic this season.

Yet here he was once more, back at Lennoxtown wearing his famous Copa Mundial boots, this time looking a little less shiny than they were when they were pulled off the Sports Direct shelf back in October.

A crazy season took another bizarre turn on Monday when O'Neill was summoned by Dermot Desmond for another rescue mission. The 73-year-old could have been forgiven for blanking the Celtics power broker call.

But that’s not O’Neill’s style. Not when it comes to this club.

Instead, the Hoops legend just at the chance to once step up once more in the hour of need.

O'Neill said: “Dermot was was to the point. He said, ‘Would you come in?’

“If I can give him this time to look at, to the end of the season, for him to look at someone and that be the man that, through thick and thin, is going to lead Celtic on in the next couple of years, that’s fine.