Toiling Neil Lennon admits he no longer knows if he retains the backing of Celtic's hierarchy after the under-fire boss took another body blow in West Lothian.

The reigning Premiership champions slipped to a second draw with Livingston in just five days to plumb an already disastrous campaign to new depths.

A second-string Lions rescued a 2-2 draw at a snow covered Tony Macaroni Arena and for the first time Lennon conceded he doesn't know if Celtic 's power brokers still have his back.

Peter Lawwell and Dermot Desmond have strongly supported their man despite a spiralling season but Celtic's latest slip puts their 10 In A Row dream even further out of reach.

Asked if the end is near, the Irishman replied: "I can't answer that. You're asking the wrong person."

Lennon bullishly insisted he's been worried about his job from the moment he stepped back through the door but reckons there's been a lack of "balance" in coverage of the club's ailing campaign.

"I've been concerned about my position for a long time," he said.

"Listen, when I came in I didn't know how long I was going to be in the job for because there was an outcry of 'maybe he's not good enough, blah blah blah...'

"But I've won five trophies out of six so far. Maybe the league is beyond us but I don't think there's been a balance and that's fine.

"That's fine, I can take all that. I've just got to keep working away and keep believing we'll turn results into wins."

Goals from Ciaron Brown and Jay Emmanuel Thomas heaped further misery on Lennon's team despite Mohamed Elynounoussi and Nir Bitton putting them ahead.

Celtic still have two games in hand over Rangers but remain 20 points behind the runaway leaders and their awful evening was compounded by a red card for captain Scott Brown.

The result will likely lead to yet more fierce criticism from fans and pundits but Lennon insists he can take it.

He added: "I don't care (about pundits). Taken a battering from who? Pundits are entitled to give their opinion, I don't mind.

"That's what they're paid to do but I don't have to believe it, adhere to it or listen to it.

"My conscience is perfectly clear, my belief in my professionalism and the work that I do is completely clear.

"It's not hard to argue against (that it's been a shambles this season). This club has been at the top for a long, long time.

"We are going through a difficult season. There's an expectancy to win 10 In A Row but it's never guaranteed.

"Even when we won eight, people were talking about 10 when we hadn't won nine.

"We had to go and win nine, we did that and there was a lot of expectancy going into the season, but we've been disappointing.

"But the club isn't a shambles, far from it. It's not in crisis off the field.

"The board have been magnificent, they've presided over nine titles in a row, a quadruple Treble.

"That's unheard of any in era of football. People need to take a step back and put a perspective on it.

"From my point of view, it's not been good enough. It's not been consistent enough and we've not played well enough."