Former Celtic boss Neil Lennon has revealed there are some ex-Parkhead team-mates he no longer talks to since his acrimonious departure from Glasgow's east end.
And he believes he was stabbed "in the front, not the back" by his old pals upon his exit.
The Irishman was sacked as Hoops boss in February last year as his side's 10 In A Row tilt fell short and they lost their grip on the Scottish Premiership title.
Lennon insists his relationships with the likes of former chief executive Peter Lawwell and the club's largest shareholder Dermot Desmond have remained intact.
But that's NOT the case when it comes to some of the players he used to share the hallowed Parkhead turf after the bitter end to his time at Celtic.
Speaking to PLZ, Lennon said: "It was painful, yeah. People turn on you very quickly.
"That's the fickle nature of football sometimes, but I didn't see it coming in the volume it did come."
Asked if his relationships with Desmond and Lawwell have changed, he said: "Not at all. It has with some other people, ex-teammates...
"But certainly not with those two. I was very close to them and I still am.
"Yes (they were team-mates critical of me). I'm far from happy. They basically stabbed me not in the back, but in the front."
Lennon then gave his impression of said team-mates when he spoke to them about their critical words.
"'A bu-bu-bu, I didn't mean it like that'."
Lennon caught the Scottish footballing world by surprise when he upped sticks for Cyprus last month.
And he's revealed permanent successor Ange Postecoglou – with whom he's shared many a chat with – was the inspiration for his move abroad to Omonia.
"He's (Postecoglou) genuinely a really good guy," Lennon added. "I've spoken to him on a lot of occasions.
"He's rebuilt the squad which it needed doing, everybody knew that.
"But I think some of the players that he's brought in have been fantastic and he's on the cusp now of winning the title which would be fantastic.
"I've taken a leaf out of his book – Ange has been in Australia, Japan, now in Scotland.
"So I was looking at it thinking, 'why not go abroad and broaden your horizons, take on a different culture?'
"Looking at what Ange has done and his body of work was sort of a catalyst for me doing this."
