Martin O’Neill has appointed Mark Fotheringham as a first-team coach just hours into his temporary Celtic tenure.
O’Neill was hired alongside Shaun Maloney as the new temporary Celtic manager after Brendan Rodgers walked away from the Paradise last night.
Rodgers’ 29 months in charge of Celtic for his second spell at Parkhead ended unceremoniously after a scathing statement from Dermot Desmond obliterated the former Celtic boss.
But as O’Neill and Maloney get their feet under the table, they have made their first addition to their backroom team.
Mark Fotheringham joins Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney at Celtic
The Scottish Sun reports that Fotheringham will join O’Neill’s backroom team as a first-team coach.
Fotheringham is a former Celtic player who played for the club on just three occasions between 1999 and 2003.
He then moved on to Dundee and another 12 clubs over a 20-year period as his journeyman football career ended at Cowdenbeath.
Fotheringham has appointed Head Coach of Huddersfield Town in 2022 where he lasted just five months before his contract was terminated.
Fotheringham has also enjoyed spells at Karlsruher SC and as an assistant to Felix Magath at Fulham and a player-coach spell at Cowdenbeath in 2017.
The new Celtic coach has also enjoyed spells at Ingolstadt in the German second-tier and Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga.
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