Lennon denies illness claims

AARON LENNON has put himself on a collision course with Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp by denying claims he fell ill minutes before kick-off in Tuesday night’s 4-0 defeat to Real Madrid.

Redknapp replaced Lennon at the last minute with Jermaine Jenas for Tuesday’s Champions League match at the Santiago Bernabeu because the winger had “no energy, no strength”.

However, in a defiant Twitter post, Lennon contradicted Redknapp by saying he had been feeling ill since Sunday.

“Believe me this is 1 game i did no wnt to miss and still devo now!!!! but will not be made a scapegoat saying they only knew jus b4 KO,” he wrote.

“Saying i fell ill be4 the game is bull**** i fell ill on sunday morning where the med team put me on anti botics, but only got worse b4 tues.”

Redknapp had claimed Spurs lost Lennon “just as the teams were walking on the pitch”.

“He hadn’t been feeling great all day. I said, ‘Are you ok?’ and he said, ‘I don’t feel like I have any strength or energy to run,” so I had to pull him out,” Redknapp said.