YORK City manager David Webb has claimed he has ‘nothing to prove’, in response to supporters chanting for him to depart the club in Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Vanarama National League side Southend United.

A third consecutive defeat for York sees Webb’s side slip to 17th in the National League table, and just four points adrift of the relegation zone.

Supporters displayed their frustration on Saturday, chanting for both Webb and majority owner Glen Henderson to leave the club, with concerns over relegation very real

Webb remains thick-skinned however, and claims to not care about the chants.

“I’ve got nothing to prove, in terms of my career, and the levels I have worked at and the clubs I have worked at.” Webb explained. 

“Fans are obviously going to be disappointed if we don’t win games, but if we win games it changes the mentality. 

“It changes the feel around the place and that’s what we have got to do. 

“So we’ve got to play without fear, ignore the noise if it does become hostile and it might, or it might not. 

“We’ve just got to ignore that and focus on the performance and try to win the football game. 

“I spoke to them this morning and said it’s like a siege mentality. 

“There’s lots going on around the club, above the club, we felt like we haven’t had the rub of the green. 

“We’re in control of our own destiny in a football game, but those situations definitely don’t help. 

“I know tomorrow is going to be hostile, it is kind of an us against the world mentality at the minute. 

“That’s what I said to them this morning. I was talking to them about my own situation, obviously because the fans voiced their concerns and opinions on me and they said to me ‘look, how do you deal with it?’ and I said I don’t care, If I’m being honest.

“With the work we’ve been doing, and especially with these last three games where we’ve come out with no points, it hurts. 

“Out of those three games we were disappointed not to get five, six, seven or even a good points total out of that. 

“I think that’s what hurts the most. But in these situations it can either go two ways, we can drop or we can fight. 

“And the agreement was that we were all willing to fight." 

Webb also believes that York showed spirit in Saturday’s defeat to Southend, and that he was impressed with their work rate.

“The lads were deflated. But they weren’t deflated because they were outplayed, I think a lot of them in the chat on the bus on the way back was ‘how did we lose that?’.

“The difference was, and I said it on Saturday, was both boxes. 

“Between box-to-box we were probably the better side, in terms of work ethic, running, heart and passion. 

“We got punished by two goals, so they were deflated. But spirits were good in training this morning. 

“Because the mood in the group, despite what is going on with the media saying the dressing room is lost, that’s all nonsense. 

“I think they are frustrated because of the last three games. 

“They felt like we should have got something out of them, so that’s where there heads are at.”