New Celtic aura emerges after Brendan Rodgers impact as Martin O'Neill seeks out his Rangers nemesis

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Forrest impressed by new coach but has words for RodgersJames Forrest has witnessed a lot during his 16 years and 26 trophies as a Celtic player, yet even the events of the past week will have caught him off-guard.Forrest thrived under the tutelage of Brendan Rodgers so watching the Northern Irishman and many of his back-room staff, including John Kennedy, walk away from the club would have been hard enough to endure.Then there was the shock of Martin O’Neill, Celtic’s former manager of 20 years ago, making a remarkable return to Glasgow as a 73-year-old – albeit in an interim capacity.James Forrest trains ahead of Celtic's Premier Sports Cup semi-final clash with Rangers. | SNS GroupForrest was in the Celtic academy when O’Neill was at his pomp with the club and had never met him until Wednesday morning, when he delivered his first team talk to his new charges.“Definitely an aura,” was Forrest’s assessment of O’Neill’s address to the playing squad. I’ve had really good managers, been involved with great players and stuff over the years, and that's just another one that you've been about.“The aura, when he was in the room, when everybody was speaking, everything was properly tuned in, and that's what he deserves obviously.”Some of my best Celtic football has been under RodgersIt helped Forrest get over the pain of watching two people integral to his career in Rodgers and Kennedy leave the club.

“I've had Rodgers two different spells now, and I've had some of my best football being under him, and what he's done for me has been great over the years,” said Forrest. “And obviously Kendo as well, I've known him for so many years, I don't think anyone at the club can say a bad word about him, I think what he's done, maybe people don't see on the outside what he does every day.“For me as well, anything off the pitch or on it, if you ever needed, or had a problem, you could go to him and it wouldn't go anywhere as well, and I think that's big in football.

I’ve tried to find out where he’s living for a number of years so I can shout ‘boo’ at him.”O’Neill did not expect to be back at the national stadium – certainly in a managerial capacity, interim or otherwise. But the Celtic-Rangers game I would seldom miss.”Now he’s back in the thick of it.