It may come as a surprise to learn that Gary O’Neil is notorious among footballers of his generation for the theft of his Ferrari F430 Spider F1, the perpetrator taking advantage of the then Middlesbrough player leaving his keys in the ignition while paying for petrol at a Shell garage in 2009.
The Premier League manager that O’Neil has become, at Bournemouth and now Wolves, presents a public image that is the opposite of flashy, the antithesis of absent-minded. O’Neil, 40, is full of wired intensity yet modest. Even when his team pulled off the shock of the season so far in beating Manchester City, he retained a laser focus on the next match.
