Martin O’Neill has press room in stitches, tells reporter ‘buzz off’ after Wilfried Nancy question

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Wilfried Nancy has got some act to follow when he is announced as Celtic’s new manager.

Yes, officially, Nancy is replacing Brendan Rodgers, but the work Martin O’Neill has done in the meantime is pretty special.

One of the things Celtic’s new permanent manager is going to find difficult to replace is O’Neill’s ability to light up his pre-match and post-match press conferences.

Celtic host Dundee in the Premiership on Wednesday night, and O’Neill was in his prime in what was his final presser as the Hoops boss.

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Martin O’Neill’s brilliant response to Wilfried Nancy question

It’s been a waiting game with Nancy, but finally, Celtic will confirm their new boss this week, and he will be in the dugout for Hearts on Sunday.

It has resulted in O’Neill having to field more questions about the Frenchman than anything else.

But, at the start of O’Neill’s final presser, one reporter tried to ask a question about Nancy and what conversations O’Neill would be having with him, including ‘what the team needs.’

O’Neill stated, ‘I would let him (Nancy) ask me that’, before later on, another reporter tried to ask the same question, but he painted it in a different way.

In typical O’Neill style, he told the reporter to kindly ‘buzz off’ to the laughter of the whole press room and refused to answer his question.

That blunt nature from O’Neill is going to be missed. But by all intents and purposes, Nancy has a similar stern style.

Reporter: “If you do have a conversation with Wilfried Nancy. What would be the biggest takeaway that you could give him? Both in terms of what he could expect, both in the league and indeed the club?”

O’Neill: “Would it be unfair to give you that answer when I didn’t tell this young gentleman here?”

The other reporter shouts in the background about his question being repeated:

O’Neill then added: “Absolutely, just in a different way? Exactly. And there’s no way that I’m going to answer that there. You asked first, young man. Exactly, so buzz off.”

Reporter: “Politely, I will. But in terms of the job that you know, people talk about.”

O’Neill: “No, no. You are going at it again.”