Interview: Michael O’Neill on turning down Scotland and coaxing a goal out of Kyle Lafferty
This was not the way it was meant to turn out. The Michael O’Neill
sitting in an Edinburgh café two years on from spurning the chance to manage Scotland appears far from crushed by regret.
He almost skips into the appointed meeting place whistling a merry tune. And why not?
The Northern Ireland manager had watched one of his players, Michael Smith, star for Hearts against Rangers the previous day, while receiving news that another, the less reliable Kyle Lafferty, had broken his duck off the bench for his Norwegian side Sarpsborg 08.
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