FACT FILE

Position: Northern Ireland manager

Age: 48

Appointed: January 2012, under contract until 2024.

Record: P55 W19 D16 L20

Lowest FIFA world ranking: 129

Highest: 20 Current: 26

On his watch: Northern Ireland topped their group in Euro 2016 qualification, and reached the last 16 of the Euro finals, where they lost 1-0 to Wales.

In 2018 World Cup preliminaries, the North were runners-up in their group to world champions Germany and lost 1-0 on aggregate to Switzerland in the play-offs via an outrageous penalty call.