Angry Huddersfield Town boss Michael Duff tears into players after humiliating FA Cup exit

Furious Huddersfield Town boss Michael Duff questioned his team's mentality after they were knocked out of the FA Cup by non-league Tamworth.

The National League side are through to the second round after stunning League One Town 1-0 thanks to a Chris Maxwell own goal.

Duff said: “Not good enough. Outrun, outfought, outbattled, beaten by a better team in the end. Started the game really poorly, concede a goal from the obvious threat, no quality in our play, every cross went in the keeper’s hands.

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“We’ll be all over the papers tomorrow for all the wrong reasons. I said to the players in the meeting room, ‘make sure your heads are right’, and they clearly weren’t.

“There’s no excuses. We’ve played three different formations, we’ve had a lot of the ball but not sure the keeper has made enough saves, and if we’d have started the game like we did from the 80th minute onwards we’d have been all right, but we didn’t.”

Tamworth manager Andy Peaks said his side’s win was just reward for their progress over the last two years. He said: “We were looking forward to it because if you can’t enjoy nights like this, you shouldn’t be involved in football.

“Obviously the result makes it 10 times better but I wanted people to come and celebrate what we’ve done the last couple of years and this was a reward to get a tie like Huddersfield and then be on TV.

“People have said about the way we play, we play like that every game, we’ve not got loads and loads of extremely skilful players, we just work hard, we’ve got a good shape, they put a good shift in.

“I said to them before the start, whatever happens do yourself justice, don’t let it pass you by, and they didn’t, they were brilliant.”