Scotland make approach for Northern Ireland boss Michael O’Neill

The Scottish Football Association has made an official approach for Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill, Press Association Sport understands.O’Neill has emerged as the leading contender to replace Gordon Strachan after guiding his team to the second round of Euro 2016 and the recent World Cup play-offs.The ball is now in the court of the Irish Football Association, which has O’Neill under contract until the end of the next European Championship campaign.???? Memories we will never forget. Now it's time to look towards our next campaign when we will #DareToDream again ????? #GAWA pic.twitter.com/7KBLIqL1CQ— Northern Ireland (@NorthernIreland) November 14, 2017(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-72310761-1', 'auto', {'name': 'pacontentapi'}); ga('pacontentapi.set', 'referrer', location.origin); ga('pacontentapi.set', 'dimension1', 'By PA Sport Staff'); ga('pacontentapi.set', 'dimension2', 'c4787f26-9a1d-4c34-b013-952573993c4d'); ga('pacontentapi.set', 'dimension3', 'paservice:sport,paservice:sport:football'); ga('pacontentapi.set', 'dimension6', 'story-enriched'); ga('pacontentapi.set', 'dimension7', 'composite'); ga('pacontentapi.set', 'dimension8', null); ga('pacontentapi.set', 'dimension9', 'sport:football'); ga('pacontentapi.send', 'pageview', { 'location': location.href, 'page': (location.pathname + location.search + location.hash), 'title': 'Scotland make approach for Northern Ireland boss Michael Ou2019Neill'});

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