York City: McNamara feels for Minstermen supporters after atrocious six-goal loss

City played for the entire second half with ten men after veteran Jonathan Greening’s 45th-minute dismissal and capitulated on the restart, shipping six unanswered goals to slump to their seventh successive defeat.

The loss leaves York one defeat away from setting an unwanted milestone of eight defeats, recorded by Wilf McGuinness in the mid-seventies and FA Cup semi-final supremo Tom Lockie in the fifties.

Lamenting an embarrassing display, McNamara – who confirmed that Keith Lowe, John McCombe, Josh Carson, Marvin McCoy and Tom Platt all are available to leave the club ahead of tomorrow’s 5pm emergency loan deadline having not travelled to Fratton Park – said: “We were fine in the first half and looked quite comfortable but, after the sending off, we stressed the importance of not giving anything away easily at half-time.

“Instead, when we went 2-0 down, we crumbled and I think there were individuals out there feeling sorry for themselves, going through the motions and wanting the game to be over.

“It ended up being an embarrassing scoreline and I feel for the fans who made that long journey because some of the goals were just simple give and goes.”

York, who welcome fifth-placed Accrington on Saturday, are considering appealing against Greening’s dismissal for violent conduct just before the break.