Lewis fearful of Lenny’s evil eye

HIBS defender Lewis Stevenson admits he spent last week’s entire bus journey from Aberdeen trying to avoid eye contact with fuming boss Neil Lennon.

Lennon let rip with a ferocious post-match rant at his players inside the Pittodrie dressing room after his team collapsed to a 4-1 defeat.

And long-serving full-back Stevenson insists the former Celtic manager was just as angry during the 130-mile trip back to the capital because he watched a re-run of the game on his laptop.

Stevenson knows there will be no hiding place for the team when they bid to make amends against Ross County this afternoon, but concedes he did his best to avoid Lennon’s attention on the bus.

He said: “The manager said he was hard on us but, frankly, we deserved it, it was our poorest performance since he has been manager and I had that suspicion walking in after the game that there would be a backlash, even at half-time – which we got.

“He was seething, it’s happened in football a lot and with every manager that’s been here.

“The trip back home was tough, too. He was watching the game again and he had that angry look when he’s watching it, quite rightly because it was our poorest performance.

“He was watching it on a laptop and I’m not that far from him, I was slumping down as far as possible on my seat to try and stay out of eye contact.

“But he’s a passionate man and passionate about his job, he loves his team and wants us to do well.

“It’s the mark of a great manager, you would rather that than somebody who didn’t care and went home on the bus and listened to music.

“We don’t want to put in performances like that, we know the time and money spent.”