FA Cup manager Marc White dug out his players in a brutal X-rated rant at the weekend after watching his Dorking side lose 2-0 to neighbours Horsham in the fourth qualifying round of the competition. Dorking, who are two tiers above Horsham in the non-league pyramid, saw their FA Cup campaign come to an end after Daniel Ajakaiye and Shamir Fenelon struck for the hosts in the first half to cause a huge upset.
“Today was, wholeheartedly, a bunch of players that were absolutely s***,” hissed White in an interview with the Dorking YouTube channel.
“Atrocious. And they should be called out. They get told when they do well and that’s how life works. Anyone who goes down that ridiculous thing of, ‘oh don’t slag the players.’ The f****** players get paid, they should do a great job, if they don’t do a f****** great job, they should at least go down fighting. That’s how it works.
“Myself and the club have planned for this game for two weeks and you’d have thought we planned it on a fag packet last night. So they’ve embarrassed the management team. I’d be the first to take blame. I ain’t taking blame for that shower of s***. But what I will do is guarantee that there won’t be a lot more of that from these boys. Even if it takes three, four, five games, I don’t care less. This bunch of players today have been shambolic.”
White was the man who founded Dorking in 1999 and owns the club as well as manages the first-team. During his time at the helm, he has led the side to 12 promotions to take them from Division Five of the Crawley & District League right the way up to the National League, where they ply their trade alongside former Football League giants Chesterfield, Southend and Dagenham & Redbridge.
And summing up the FA Cup encounter, White added: “They fully deserve to be in the draw. I really hope they get something amazing, life-changing, so my f****** s*** players can learn a f****** lesson because they were so poor.
“It’s not about availability, injuries, who was returning, who wasn’t. It was about the fact that that team let the fans down 100 per cent.
“Some of them showed that, when the going gets tough, they don’t get tough with it, they get going. That’s going to be a short career for them at my club and our club. All I can do is apologise on behalf of the players and the management team. For a team not to turn up in the FA Cup is scandalous.”
