Former Celtic striker Andy Walker has accused the club's board of a 'dereliction of duty' in their failure to sack Neil Lennon.
The Irishman has been under fire from all sides after presiding over just two wins from the last 12 games but has been given until January to turn things around by power brokers Peter Lawwell and Dermot Desmond.
55-year-old pundit Walker issued a scathing assessment of the board last week after the Hoops were jettisoned from the Betfred Cup by Ross County.
And the pundit has doubled down claiming he's not in the least surprised they don't appear to know what they are doing.
Walker feels the situation calls for strong decision making and urged them to show the same disregard for sentiment that saw their predecessors remove Billy McNeill from office, a decision the legend came to later accept was the right call.
He told Sky: "I'm not surprised the Celtic board don't know what they are doing.
"I think you have to be strong in a situation like this and I think you have to make tough decisions at times. And I think this is a time to make a really tough decision.
"And that decision is to change direction and go back to what was working before.
"I was here in 1991 when Billy McNeill was manager and he was sacked by Celtic.
"He was the best captain they ever had, one of their best players and had so much success as a manager.
"I remember years later Billy recognizing it was the right thing to do because results weren't good, he wasn't doing it and it was the right thing to move on.
"I think there is a dereliction of duty by the Celtic board who have been taken by surprise at just how quickly everything has unravelled here and the Celtic team I have watched over the last number of months is not working.
"I'm looking at the players and they are not as good as they were last season and their performance levels are dropping."
