Martin O’Neill explains bitterness over Ireland job and his biggest regret

Martin O’Neill feels his work alongside Roy Keane with the Republic of Ireland is still undervalued and that the pair were not given a fair crack of the whip. The former Celtic and Leicester City boss took the Republic of Ireland job alongside Keane in 2013.

Read more: 'The FAI is the biggest joke of a sporting organisation - but it's not too late to save it from itself'The Derry native believes, as a Northern Ireland native, he was never fully accepted in the role and indeed that members of the media were hoping he would trip up. “It’s right up there with everything I did. But I never won over the media. I don’t know why, but I said in my book I was made to feel like an outsider. I was called the Ulsterman, I’ve tried to explain this… just recently I heard an Irish commentator saying we have had outsiders as managers, we had Trapattoni and we had O’Neill.

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