John Kennedy and Eddie Howe have overtaken Roy Keane in the betting race for the vacant managerial position at Celtic.

Keane was the heavy favourite over the weekend with some bookmakers suspending betting on the Irishman becoming the next Parkhead manager.

But now former Bournemouth boss Howe and interim Celtic manager Kennedy are the frontrunners.

Howe is currently priced at 8/11 with Kennedy at 11/4. Keane has moved out from 1/4 to 4/1.

Former Sunderland boss Keane has not been in a management job since 2011 before he took the assistant manager's job at Republic of Ireland alongside Martin O'Neill. He also worked briefly as assistant at Nottingham Forest.

We told earlier how Keane was quizzed by Ally McCoist on becoming the next manager of Celtic. 

The Rangers hero told talkSPORT: "He effectively ignored me really.

"Roy just kind of looked at me as if to say 'yeah, and I'm really going to tell you the answer'.

"I got that, you know the stare, the world-famous stare - I was on the receiving end of it at Wembley on Thursday night!

"And I still don't know whether he's going to get the Celtic job or not. Effectively, that's where we are on it."