Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers was left humiliated by his side’s performance after their 4-1 defeat at Nottingham Forest.
City, the FA Cup holders, were dumped out by Steve Cooper 's side, with a rapid nine-minute period in the first half in which Forest scored three goals to surge into a dominating lead.
Rodgers berated his side’s display after the match, issuing an apology to the 4,000 City supporters who had travelled to the City Ground.
He also revealed that he had brought the FA Cup to the team meeting before the game to remind the players what they had been through to win it a season earlier, with the ploy backfiring as the players failed to live up to expectations.
"It was an awful performance and I have to apologise to the supporters,” Rodgers said.
“To come here, the first game between the two sides for a long time, a great atmosphere, in derby games you need authority and you need physicality. Those two were sadly missing from our performance.
"I said to the players after that for the first time since I’ve been here I’ve been embarrassed. It was an embarrassing performance. I feel for the supporters and the excitement of coming to here."
He continued: “We brought the FA Cup into our team meeting today so the players could see what we went through last year to win this competition, to remind them of the day at Wembley and the journey, and what it takes to win a trophy like that.
“I was looking to provide that motivation and extra desire to come out here today.
“We went away to Stoke, away to Brentford, Brighton, Manchester United, Southampton and then Chelsea, European champions.
"We come here today and we were really disappointing.”
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