The Changing Game

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2026
A WATERSTONES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ONeill can talk the talk as hes walked the walk.
ONeill is an elite motivatorThe Times
Peppered with insight and brilliant stories from a career spent shoulder to shoulder with some of footballs biggest namesI Paper

In more than five decades in the game, Martin ONeill has seen it all - but no one could have predicted his extraordinary return to the top flight of Scottish football when he returned to Celtic in October 2025.

In The Changing Game ONeill brings his unique perspective on the events, managers and teams that define football. Bringing his sharp instincts and intellect to look at his own tenures as a manager for Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, Celtic and the Republic of Ireland, as well as many others, fans will enjoy the first-hand anecdotes of how to prepare for and play against the titans of the game. Martin explores every aspect of contemporary football at the highest levels, including speaking truth to the powers-that-be, how teams deal with injuries, foreign influences on the British game, the changing roles of managers, coaches and agents and the effect of social media and wage structures on players.

Charting the evolution of the top levels of professional football from the beginning of ONeills career in 1971 all the way to the present day, youll enjoy ONeills unvarnished take on the inside story of the changing game.