CAPTAIN Lenell John-Lewis issued an apology to supporters after York City suffered a calamitous 6-1 defeat to Altrincham.

John-Lewis addressed the defeat and admitted that it ‘was a shambles’, with York three points adrift of safety in the Vanarama National League after matching their worst-ever scoreline.

The City captain stated that the squad need to take a look at themselves and address their issues, and went on to issue his support for goalkeeper George Sykes-Kenworthy after a difficult night between the sticks.

“I can only apologise. Without swearing, it was a shambles,” John-Lewis asserted.

“The fans were amazing, we can only apologise, I can only apologise. I’m lost for words, to be honest.

“I don’t have an answer for you, but we have to look at ourselves.

“We have to look at ourselves deeply, individually, as a collective from top to bottom.

“We have to find out a way to pick up points very quickly.

“The squad is together, it’s not divided, but today it did look like that and that’s why you’re asking the question.

“We have to look at ourselves, we have to talk tomorrow and find a way to very quickly put things right.

“I’ve been in this position a couple of times and I’ve made it out.

“I’ll keep going, I’ll make sure that the lads keep going and I’m sure the lads themselves will keep going until the end. That’s all we can do, try to find a way.

“We have to look at ourselves and we have to find a way, it’s as simple as that.

“I don’t have much words for you to be honest and I’m sorry about that, because without swearing it was a shambles.

 

“We have three days and it’s a quick turnaround, but when you’re winning it’s quick and you like it.

“When you’re losing it’s a good thing as well, because it doesn’t give us much time to think about it and we have it in our grasps to make it right.”

John-Lewis went on to pledge his support for City shot-stopper Sykes-Kenworthy, who made two mistakes in the heavy defeat for the Minstermen.

“GSK has been unbelievable for us, since he’s come in.

“I said it to him as soon as he walked off, keep your head up because he has been unbelievable.

“He has kept us in a lot of games and he has won us points, so it will be tough on him because that’s the position he’s in, he’s a goalkeeper and it is hard.

“It’s hard for us as strikers when we miss and we know we should have scored, but for him particularly it is hard.

“We’ll get him up and going again, because again he has been fantastic for us.

“It’s easy to say that the chances we had summed up our season, but at the end of the day we should have scored them and we need to make that right.”