By TownFans.co.uk
November 17 2012

Town boss Mick McCarthy has revealed that the 6-0 hammering at the hands of Leicester City this afternoon says he was embarrassed by his teams display.

Speaking in the post-match press conference, the former Republic of Ireland Manager said that he could have no complaints if the press slammed his side: “If you want to put awful and abject and p***-poor then I’m quite happy with that.

"We talked about being hard-to-beat and not giving anything stupid away, but we’re timid at the minute. I don’t know if it’s a case of getting used to being beat, but that mentality can develop. You lose one goal and then another. The manner of the goals we conceded today was so poor.

"When it is a little bit brittle – which it is at the moment, everyone feels that way – you can almost see the players thinking ‘here we go again’. We’ve got to get rid of that.

"I’d have taken six points from the opening four games. Did we expect to beat Crystal Palace and Leicester? Probably not. But I expected us to play better. I don’t expect my sides to be humiliated the way they were today.

“The penalty should have been cleared, the second sees a runner from midfield not picked up – it’s embarrassing actually.”

McCarthy also added that he found the defeat personally hard to take: "It does hurt me, of course. I take pride in my teams being organised, hard-to-beat, tough, resolute. My two Championship winning sides will prove I like good football too, but we’ve got to sort the aforementioned out first though.

"We could be in-and-out of that bottom three all season. I can’t do anything about this one now, we’ll look at it on Monday, pick the bones out of it and then prepare for the game against Peterborough. We have to try and make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”

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