{"id":3461,"date":"2024-08-20T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/neil-lennon-rapid-bucharest-sack-head-coach-after-six-matches\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:59:07","slug":"neil-lennon-rapid-bucharest-sack-head-coach-after-six-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/neil-lennon-rapid-bucharest-sack-head-coach-after-six-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Lennon: Rapid Bucharest sack head coach after six matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Celtic and Hibernian manager Neil Lennon has been sacked by Rapid Bucharest after just six matches.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 53-year-old ex-Northern Ireland midfielder, who also had spells in charge at Bolton Wanderers and Omonia Nicosia, was appointed in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A run of five draws and a defeat has Rapid sitting 12th in the 16-team SuperLiga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Backroom staff Iain Brunskill, Andrew Liddell and Kyirakos Televantos have also been relieved of their duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A club statement on Lennon&#8217;s departure read: &#8220;We thank him for all his dedication and energy on the Rapidu bench, especially since he has been through difficult times lately, and we wish him much success in the future!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lennon, who also captained Celtic, had been at home in Northern Ireland earlier this month following the death of his mother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cd9dj88317xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Celtic and Hibernian manager Neil Lennon has been sacked by Rapid Bucharest after just six matches. The 53-year-old ex-Northern Ireland midfielder, who also had spells in charge at Bolton Wanderers and Omonia Nicosia, was appointed in May. A run of five draws and a defeat has Rapid sitting 12th in the 16-team SuperLiga. Backroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}