Source: FOOTYMAD
Clarky: 'Mackem Defeat Was Horrendous'
Former Toon star Lee Clark saw all his efforts go up in smoke as his Huddersfield side were thumped 3-0 in the play-off final by Peterborough. His side had gone 27 league games unbeaten before Sunday's defeat. Clark was a Mackem player in 1998 when Sunderland lost to Charlton on penalties in a 4-4 draw at Wembley. Lee Clark: "This hurts just as much and that was horrendous. "I think they didn't deserve 3-0. When people look at that, they'll think it was a one-sided game but it just wasn't. "I was expecting us to get a goal but they withstood what we threw at them and then hit us with a treble. "I feel for the players. We knew it was a one-off game and some team had to win it. "But the players don't have to feel ashamed for anything that's happened this season. They broke numerous records and ran through proverbial brick walls for me this season. "I'm physically and mentally drained at the moment and I need to recharge my batteries. But I know what it takes to bounce back, I've done it before. "We've had an unbelievable season but we haven't achieved our goal. "The biggest thing that's eating away is, not taking anything away from Peterborough and their result, that it's gone 3-0 and it looks so against my team and it wasn't. "We were in the ascendancy, we had the momentum and we were flying at that time. But this game was about winning, not about how we played. "It was just a crazy seven minutes. In the second half for half an hour, I thought we were the dominant team. But we knew they had a set-piece expert who has fantastic delivery. And on two of the goals, it was proved right."
