Watch Martin O’Neill get spiky with BBC man as Celtic boss takes down Feyenoord question

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Celtic’s Europa League tie against Feyenoord could make or break the campaign this season.

A defeat will make qualification from the group extremely difficult, while avoiding defeat will give Celtic a very good chance of getting out the Europa League phase with three games left to play.

Off-field issues with Celtic fans and the board are a bit of a distraction, however Martin O’Neill remains fully focused on the task at hand.

The Celtic boss was asked if he would like to end his tenure at the club with a win over Feyenoord, and O’Neill didn’t seem to enjoy that question one bit.

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Celtic boss Martin O’Neill not having BBC man’s Feyenoord question

The Celtic boss is preparing for the end of his interim spell at the club when he was asked if he would like to leave the club with a win over Feyenoord.

BBC reporter Liam McLeod asked at the press conference, “So this is what you’re here to talk about tonight, wanting to ensure that when you do the part you have left having picked up key points here?”

O’Neill replied, “Oh yeah, just as easy as that. Very, very simple. You’re joking, aren’t you?”

McLeod: “No.”

O’Neill:” No? Okay. To try and win, trying to win the game. Of course, yeah, it’s fine. We’re playing Feyenoord, you know, so it will be pretty difficult.”

Martin O’Neill bites back at Celtic and Feyenoord ‘confidence’ question

The Celtic manager wasn’t finished there as McLeod then asked O’Neill after Feyenoord’s latest defeat, will he be more confident to get a result.

McLeod: “They’ve lost their last three matches. Does that give you confidence that you can inflict…”

O’Neill: “I think their confidence will come from nothing to do with what they will do or can’t do.

“It comes from our own. And we picked up plenty of confidence ourselves in a really tough match against Midtjylland. Really tough.

“We knew it would be and now but we’ve made some sort of progress from this since and certainly domestically and I am just looking forward to the game.

“I think that we are going in with confidence anyway. We didn’t play particularly brilliantly against St. Mirren, but we won the game and winning always gives you some confidence as well.

“So we’re going to try with all our might tomorrow, but it’ll be a difficult match.”

To be honest, both questions were fairly straightforward and it is unusual to see O’Neill be agitated considering some of the daft questions the Celtic boss has been asked during his interim period at the club.

Maybe the realisation of leaving Celtic soon is hurting O’Neill more than he would realise as this does look like this will be his last week in charge at the club he clearly loves.