YORK City boss Jackie McNamara is still pondering his future after a 1-1 draw at fellow National League strugglers Braintree.

McNamara drove back from the Essex match with chairman Jason McGill as the ex-Dundee United chief contemplated whether the final outcome represented the “positive result” he said was needed before the match to prevent him from tendering his resignation.

Braintree striker Lee Barnard converted a last-minute penalty to deny City a first away win in 30 matches.

Simon Heslop had earlier fired the Minstermen in front on six minutes before Kyle Letheren saved another spot kick for the visitors from Sim Akinola and, addressing his future afterwards, McNamara said: “I need to speak to the chairman first, then make my decision.

“I saw fight, commitment and heart, but I honestly don’t know what will happen next. I’ve got a lot of thinking to do.

“Results have not been good enough and I’ve been humbled by the support of the chairman and the players. I’ve tried to do the best job I can and help the players improve.

“Sometimes things work, sometimes they don’t. I’m not the only manager to come under pressure or make mistakes.

“You either move on because you’ve done really well or you get sacked, so we’ll see what happens.”

McNamara felt the two struggling clubs failed to put on an entertaining spectacle at Cressing Road, but also argued that neither penalty should have been awarded against his team.

“It was one of the worst games of the season and just two teams fighting and hoping for something to break, or a mistake or a referee decision and I was a bit disappointed with both penalties, because I don’t think they should have been given,” he reasoned. “Even their manager said the second one wasn’t a penalty, but we conceded a silly free kick and one ball into the box gave the referee the chance to give a penalty against us out of nothing and that cost us.

“Things go against you in football like that and the officiating summed up the game really. It wasn’t pretty and there were lots of mistakes, but we should have had a second goal as well from Danny Galbraith.

“The pitch wasn’t great, but we didn’t take enough care in front of goal and, then, in the second half, we were nervy and on the back foot. They also caused us a few problems and were unlucky not to score a goal before the penalty because our keeper was outstanding with a couple of the saves he made.”