I have often thought, after sacking Nige if we had gone for O’Neill, he would have an even greater God-like status here. I think he may have ruled himself out of the job at the time, he must regret that now.
Even if we hadn’t have won the league, we wouldn’t know any better than staying up, so any Top 4 / 6 place finish would have seemed crazy.
There are definite parallels between the squads within playing styles as well, Guppy/Albrighton, Walsh & Elliott / Huth & Morgan, Mahrez / Izzet, Lennon /Kante. O’Neill would have got a lot out of those players.