On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend

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It covered his early years as a Roman Catholic growing up in Northern Ireland and following his dream of becoming a professional footballer in England.

O’Neil takes us on a journey that includes his childhood, his professional football career and then his professional management history. This deeply personal and supportive series offers listeners an honest and relatable insight into how some the UK's best-known celebrities have coped with mental health difficulties, ranging from OCD to insomnia, addiction to grief, and depression to anxiety.The last couple of chapters feel rushed, and this is a book that starts well but fades as it goes on. Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. There are some nice stories in here, but I would have liked to hear more about what Clough was like or what life was like in Glasgow, but he focuses on what happened on the pitch, which is fine.

Some are more personal, some more academic, but an essential read for anyone interested in gender studies, writing in Ireland and creative endeavour. I have always been a great admirer of Martin O'Neil as a player and a manager, so I was really looking forward to reading his story. The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a journey that will take the listener beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist.

An extraordinary career' – The GuardianA key part of Brian Clough’s legendary Nottingham Forest team in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, Martin also represented Northern Ireland more than 60 times and led them at the 1982 World Cup. He made his breakthrough playing for Distillery in Northern Ireland before joining Brian Clough's legendary Nottingham Forest team, becoming one of the few players who made the epic journey from the Second Division to the glory years: winning the First Division championship, two League Cups and back-to-back European Cups.

Martin O'Neill started his career in Northern Ireland, but moved to England where he spent most of his playing career with Nottingham Forest, with whom he won the European Cup twice, in 1979 and 1980. Martin O’Neill is one of the most respected men in soccer, I grew up watching his Celtic side play and reach the UEFA cup final in 2003. The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. It gets too similarly paced toward the managerial side of life and a brief, short sentence structure soon follows in what becomes a highlights reel. But Martin O'Neill makes for a delightful tour guide through his own time on and off the pitch, with the Nottingham Forest glory days raked over for the finer details, as is his experience in more recent times with the Republic of Ireland.O'Neill represented Northern Ireland over sixty times, playing alongside George Best and captaining the side at the 1982 World Cup, where they reached the quarter-finals. In his autobiography, On Days Like These, O’Neill tells the story of his extraordinary life for the first time. There are not enough examples of situations that occur with individuals and he barely references many big games with Celtic or the last two seasons he was there. This is something of a whistle stop tour through the life of the author within the world of football so not entirely an autobiography but more a list of highlights and some lowlights.

Martin tells of his exhilarating highs and painful lows; from the joys of winning trophies and promotion to making the difficult decision to retire as a player, boardroom drama, relegation scraps and being fired. Read fascinating stories from his journey as a player, his breakthrough with Distillery in Northern Ireland, to joining Brian Clough’s legendary Nottingham Forest team as it rose from the Second Division all the way to winning back-to-back European Cups.

Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Now 71 years of age and out of football management since 2019, one wonders what this throughly intelligent football coach and gentleman of immense integrity would have achieved with United or England if he had been given the chance. Listen in as she takes six different people on a career change journey to help them figure out what work they would really love to do and create a plan of how to make that career change happen. The stories are fantastic - John Motson, legendary football commentator You may also be interested in. I wasn’t yet born or old enough to witness his exploits as a player (2 league titles and 2 Champions League titles with Nottingham Forest under the legendary Brian Clough and a stellar showing for Northern Ireland in the 1982 World Cup in Spain), but I have witnessed his exploits as a football manager who overachieved at every team that he has ever managed.