BIG INTERVIEW: MICHAEL O’NEILL

By John Wragg

LEADER OF THE PACK: Michael O’Neill has had to undertake a major squad revamp in his first year in charge of Stoke City
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TODAY, Michael O’Neill celebrates 12 months as Stoke’s manager. The previous fall guy was Nathan Jones, sacked four days before bonfire night 2019, and a job that rockets through managers burned four of them in less than two years.
Mark Hughes was axed after an FA Cup third round defeat at Coventry, then in League Two, in January 2018.
Paul Lambert was appoi...