Jordan McMillan has accused Partick Thistle of "hanging him out to dry" over his failed drugs test.

The former Jags defender tested positive for cocaine after sitting on the bench for Thistle's 1-0 defeat at the hands of Celtic last December.

Now he has blasted the decision by the club to sack him before his hearing into the allegations with UKAD, believing they withdrew a contract offer made to him in February after receiving information from the SFA that McMillan claims was confidential.

He said: “I had a meeting with Thistle chairman David Beattie, and the general manager Ian Maxwell.

“The way I read it was they wanted me to say: ‘OK I have got a problem and I did do it’. I felt like they stabbed me in the back.

“They wanted to paint the club in a good light, which they didn’t. They sacked me prematurely before I was going into my first hearing.

“It meant I was going into that hearing having been sacked by my employers. What is the panel going to think after that? That I’m guilty.

“That was the backing Thistle gave me. Don’t get me wrong, the gaffer Alan Archibald was good to me. I wouldn’t say anything against him. But the club? They took the easy option. They hung me out to dry.

“I’d rather the chairman had said he was in a difficult position and they didn’t know how to deal with it.

“I’ve got a bad taste in my mouth over that. Not with the manager — but the club.”

SFA bosses are thought to be adamant that they shared the information with Partick Thistle as a duty of care for McMillan.

But McMillan added: “That will be the same duty of care where they haven’t even called me for the past ten months since the drugs test announcement.

“Their duty of care was to comply with their own rules and not circulate confidential information.

“It seems it’s OK for the SFA to break their rules, the same rules they are punishing me for. That’s anti-doping justice for you.”