Source: Team_Talk
Webster wants Tangerines fight
United's form has dipped alarmingly since Levein quit to take charge of Scotland a week and a half ago.From looking a safe bet to qualify for the Europa League, the Tangerines have garnered only one Scottish Premier League point and one goal from their three matches under caretaker boss Peter Houston.Saturday saw them lose at home to north-east rivals Aberdeen for the first time in four years, a result that came hot on the heels of Wednesday night's 7-1 thrashing at Rangers.Asked if United's season was in danger of unravelling, Webster - who is on loan from Ibrox - said: "It had better not."Sometimes, when you're not playing well, it's the mental side of things just to grind things out."As an individual and a team, if you're not playing well, keep battling away and try to do the right things and things will always come good."The mini-slump appears to have highlighted the need for chairman Stephen Thompson to appoint Levein's successor as quickly as possible.Houston, who has ruled himself out of the running for the role, yesterday revealed one candidate had already been interviewed, with more to follow this week.Webster, who has been skippering the side in the absence of Lee Wilkie, said: "The chairman and the board will obviously have to take their time making the right decision."It should place a bigger emphasis on the players to take a bit more responsibility."The players haven't changed. It's an easy excuse to say the manager's left if we get beaten."You should have the mental toughness just to get on with it."Some games you'll win and some games you'll lose but sometimes it's the manner in which you lose the game that's disappointing."Houston admitted his players may have been feeling sorry for themselves yesterday following the result at Ibrox.Webster said: "It will have some effect. How much you let it affect you is up to the individual."It's like anything; no matter how negative it is, you try to take the positives out of it and work even harder."Going to Ibrox, it was always going to be extremely difficult to get the three points."But it's things like last week at home to Kilmarnock, drawing 0-0, like losing 1-0 (to Aberdeen)."Our home form's been not what it should."United were beaten on Saturday despite playing against 10 men for the final half an hour after Davide Grassi was sent off for lashing out at Webster.Aberdeen's winner arrived as early as the 15th minute courtesy of Charlie Mulgrew's fourth goal of the season."It's a great three points for us," said the defender after helping his side bounce back from a hat-trick of defeats."We played well first half, passed it well. Second half, going down to 10 men was disappointing."Mulgrew agreed with manager Mark McGhee that Webster should have seen red for provoking Grassi."If you send one off, you've got to send the other one off in my opinion," he said."It would have been a big issue if we hadn't got the three points."Mulgrew is free to sign a pre-contract with another club this month, with negotiations over a new deal at Pittodrie finely poised."I'm just putting it to bed for now, maybe speak about it again in January at some point," said Mulgrew, who insisted he was taking reports linking him with big-spending Dundee with "a pinch of salt"."I'm just concentrating on playing for Aberdeen and giving my all at the moment."