NEIL LENNON is taking no prisoners these days when he talks to the media and he had no time for St Mirren boss Jim Goodwin’s claim one of his players took a dive midweek to win a penalty.

Goodwin has harped on about Greg Taylor supposedly taking a dive to win a penalty against his side on Wednesday but it’s clear to everyone but Jim, it was a penalty.

Asked about Greg being called out by Jim via the media, Neil Lennon had strong words for the former Celtic academy player.

The Hoops boss branded the comments out of order and believes the Paisley boss should worry about his own side’s performance rather than throw accusations at Celtic.

“He’s out of order — well out of order. Greg didn’t dive.” Lennon told SunSport.

“I’m not having other managers accusing my players of diving when it’s clearly not true.

“Jim needs to rein it in a bit. It was quite clear Greg was pulled back and he was also clipped by Ryan Flynn at the top of his foot. The referee deemed it a penalty.

“Look, he’s gone on the wrong side of Flynn, he’s got across him.

“Whether Ryan has clipped him accidentally or not, it has been enough to bring Greg down. So I don’t see where anyone can accuse him of diving.

“People say ‘Oh, it’s soft’. We’ve looked at it again and there are two contacts — one on his arm and one on his foot.

“Whenever we get a penalty these days there is a whole controversy about it, but it is clear there was contact.

“It was clear for Albian Ajeti, and it was clear for Taylor. Where, all of a sudden, this emergence of diving’s coming from, I don’t know.

“Greg’s one of the best pros you could work with. We won the game 4-0, and if I was Jim I would be concentrating on what happened to his team in the second half as opposed to accusing other players of cheating or diving. I think that’s totally out of order from him.”

Celtic take on St Johnstone on Sunday afternoon hoping to make it four wins out of four in the Premiership.

The bhoys have scored ten goals and only conceded one in their last three games and will be hoping to continue that good form at McDermid park.