NEIL LENNON has not been the Celtic manager since February, but the Irishman’s media appearances are keeping him in the limelight.

The former Hoops boss has been on BBC twice this week and made headlines when it comes to his former employers.

Today, the former Celtic manager stepped it up a gear and went after Leigh Griffiths who spoke about his fitness on Wednesday and how the coaches had not helped his situation.

Neil Lennon then had the chance to have a go at the SFA Chief, Ian Maxwell, live on air about the protocols involved in the Dubai trip where 16 players and coaches had to isolate.

Christopher Jullien was positive and the government along with the SFA demanded 16 contacts isolate even though Neil Lennon is adamant they were two meters apart.

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Maxwell claimed: “The protocols haven’t changed over that period at all. The assessment hasn’t changed.”

Lennon retorted: “Ian, the protocols were changed when we got back from Dubai. They were. We ended up having to travel on five buses rather than two.

“The social distancing – we actually had the Scotland physio, who is the Celtic physio, take all the pictures on the buses and plane. We actually came back on a business class flight, two metres apart. Yet, from the photographs, the government intervened and said it wasn’t good enough. So the protocols were changed.

“There were 16 of us altogether who had to quarantine based on one positive case.”

Neil Lennon is trying to get his name out there and improve his image so he an get a job down south, I don’t think getting into spats on BBC Scotland is the best way to go about things.

Does he have a point on the Dubai trip? I believe he does, but we’re dredging up stuff we all need to move on from. Neil has accepted very little of the blame for last season and puts it at the door of other things beside himself.

While there was a lot of things at play, the manager did not manage the situation great.