Andy Carroll has labelled Newcastle United’s mauling at Leicester City as a “disgrace”.
The striker came on for the last 28 minutes but could not prevent the team sliding to a sorry capitulation. But Carroll was open and honest in his assessment afterwards, he said: “It was absolutely shocking.
“The fans singing all the way through, I felt sorry for them. The first half was OK. The second half we came out and I can’t even tell you how bad it was.
“You saw it the first half and it was shocking. We need to put it right on the training pitch. We can’t play like that again.”
Carroll at least got more minutes under his belt and came through unscathed but said: “We gave up, completely gave up.
“It was absolutely terrible and the gaffer is fuming in there. And rightly so - it was terrible.
“We can’t feel sorry for ourselves. We have to kick on.”
The game went badly wrong just before half-time as Isaac Hayden was sent off for a bad foul on Dennis Praet.
Carroll, speaking to BBC Newcastle, said: “It was disappointing to come off with 10 men.
“That doesn’t mean we should give up. We were still in the game until the second goal.
“The heads went down. We have got strength in the dressing room and a great attitude in training.
“But what happened was a disgrace.”
