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Leicester City's players have been slammed for jetting to Copenhagen for their Christmas party.
The Foxes squad were filmed partying in a nightclub in the Danish capital on Saturday night.
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Just hours after their loss to Chelsea, the players were seen with a sign reading 'Enzo I miss you' in reference to former manager Enzo Maresca, who now manages the Blues.
Meanwhile, several members of the squad were also pictured in fancy dress as their trip to Denmark continued.
Their antics came despite Steve Cooper being sacked as manager on Sunday following just five months in charge.
Martin Keown has now hit out at the players for the timing of their Christmas party trip.
The former Arsenal and England defender told White & Jordan: "I wouldn't have gone. And I wonder where the club message is.
"The players, you're not in great fettle at the moment. Why on earth would you want to do that?
"Why are you travelling abroad? What's this desire for players to travel halfway around the world to go to these Christmas parties? I don't get it.
"If they want to do something locally as a group and get together and clear the air, perhaps.
"But to take off as they did, it's so very public. And I think that they can't afford to do it.
"Their focus needs to be on what they're doing now.
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"We've seen it with Rashford, haven't we? New manager turning up... I'm in the gym. I can't wait for the new manager to come into town."
Leicester are 16th in the Premier League and just a point above the relegation zone following Cooper's departure.
The former Nottingham Forest boss won just two of his 12 league matches in charge of the Foxes.
Ex-Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan argued that Cooper was hard done by.
He told talkSPORT: “I think it's probably an unfair landscape. First of all, they're the only club to come out of the Championship and replace their manager. So ideologically, they lose their rhythm.
“Second, they haven't spent anywhere near what the other two promoted clubs have spent. If you look at what they've spent, they've spent £70million, Ipswich spent £110m, and Southampton spent £100m. So you've got two disadvantages.
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“The third disadvantage you've got, which would have been baked into their thinking, unless they're living in a cave, is that he managed Nottingham Forest, which will create that dynamic of people not accepting him as an individual, unless he gets it absolutely right. It's not quite the Benitez-Everton-Liverpool effect, but it has that sort of ripple.
“And then you've got a style of play issue, that he doesn't play the same way as Enzo Maresca. And there was periods of time last year where the Maresca experiment was good and bad. Leicester fans were not overly enamoured with that.
“I would think that going into the season that Leicester were approaching, first of all, they looked like they were going to have points sanction.
“Second of all, they've lost creative players in the last two seasons, attacking creative players. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall's gone this season, and the season before, Harvey Barnes went.
“And whilst they've got good, decent players, and I heard Danny Murphy talking about the fact they've got a decent squad... it ain't that great. And defensively, they're not that great.
“So I think he can feel a little bit hard done by. He did seem awfully belligerent after the Chelsea game, as if there was something almost in the back of his mind coming down the pike for him.
“I think he can feel a little bit unlucky. They're out of the relegation zone, they've been okay at times, they've been poor at times, they were poor in the first half against Chelsea, but the game wasn't done and they came back into it.”
A new manager has yet to be appointed, with Graham Potter, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and David Moyes amongst the favourites to replace Cooper.
It is unclear whether a successor will be in charge for their next match this weekend.
The newly-promoted side travel to London to face Brentford on Saturday afternoon.
