Leicester City manager Peter Taylor remained defiant after witnessing his side's fourth defeat of the season at St James Park last night and admitted that he is fed up of the speculation surrounding his position with the Foxes.
Leicester's 1-0 loss to Newcastle was their 13th defeat from their last 17 Premiership matches stretching back to last season, and the Foxes remain second from bottom in the table, just two points above Southampton.
Taylor remains confident that he can turn things round at Filbert Street however and feels the pressure he is under has come from being constantly in the spotlight.
"I think any manager feels the pressure," he said. "Of course there's been probably too much coverage on myself.
"I'm sure everybody is fed up with it now - I'm fed up with it. I know that and all I can do is to get on with it.
"I want to remain here, I want to be successful and I'm going to try as hard as I can."
Taylor revealed that Magpies boss Bobby Robson had given him some words of encouragement prior to the game.
"I had a good chat with him before the game," Taylor explained. "Bobby said the same as I've had in a lot of text messages: 'Don't let the 'bar stewards' get you down'.
"That's exactly what he said - but he didn't say 'bar stewards'."
Robson reiterated his support for the beleaguered Leicester boss after the game and advised the Foxes board to give Taylor more time.
"Alex Ferguson lost here a week ago 4-3, lost by one goal, and I don't think his job is under threat," said Robson. "He's lost here by one goal tonight. Should his job be under threat?
"He hasn't got to be demolished by it. The players like him, they want him to stay on. He's a fine coach and a good lad.
"He's under tremendous pressure, but just let it ride. It's September, isn't it? Nobody wins anything in September, nobody loses anything in September.
"Good managers with understanding Boards shouldn't lose their job in September either.
"England wanted to give him a job in the summer at Under-21 level. He actually had the job, I know that, he was actually given the job to groom our best Under-21 players.
"You don't give that job to dummies, do you? You give it to good people and good coaches."
The game itself was decided by Nolberto Solano's 33rd-minute strike, although the score-line could have been worse for Leicester had Newcastle taken one of their many second-half chances.
Taylor was pleased with the effort of his players nevertheless.
"I thought the players worked as hard as they could," he said. "We had to put up with some pressure, but whenever you play Newcastle, you know you're going to have problems because they've got some excellent forwards.
"But we couldn't create a clear-cut chance ourselves, and that's why we're going home with no points.
"We weren't clever enough around the box and the quality of our set pieces and the final delivery wasn't good enough.
"That's really what you have to do at this level, you have to be very clever around the box and the service has to be just right."
He is confident that his players will get it right though and feels that confidence is the key factor in emerging from the current situation.
"We've just got to get a result from somewhere and, hopefully, the confidence will lift and we'll go from there," he said.
"You're looking at a team that's a little bit low on confidence. The game of football - any sport really - is about confidence, and at the minute, we're not as confident as we would like.
"All I can say to the players is to keep believing that's going to happen. But the only way that's going to happen is if we work our socks off in every game we play."
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