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Alan Pardew last night insisted he wasn’t embarrassed by his side after Newcastle suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in the club’s entire history.

This 6-0 win by Liverpool was the heaviest defeat recorded at St James’ Park in 87 years and relegation this season, with three games remaining, is a definite possibility.

St James’ Park was pretty empty by the final whistle and those who stayed behind booed the players and manager.

A scarf was chucked on to the track behind Pardew, who had to put up with some harsh words thrown in his direction from supporters who were ashamed about Newcastle’s display.

When the Sunday Sun asked him directly if he was embarrassed, Pardew said: “I don’t want to say that word, but I’m deeply disappointed in the displays we had out there in terms of Liverpool looking so much better than us, and it shouldn’t be like that.” Pardew did admit: “I am worried. I can’t come off a defeat like that, and the manner of it, and not be worried.

“I’m not going to criticise my players. I’m not going to criticise my team in any shape or form on a individual basis, it was a collective effort and we fell down collectively.”

That much is true.

Newcastle gave in, there is no other way to say it, after the third goal went in.

Liverpool ran riot. They got six and easily could have scored one or two more.

Pardew said: “When you are not playing well, and things are going badly and you are 3-0 down at half-time, it’s a lot for the inexperienced players and I think that showed.

“We start (rebuilding) on Monday morning to make sure we have a nice, organised team for West Ham. I know that place well and we’ll need to be strong because West Ham will be.

“I do believe we have enough to stay in the Premier League. I think we have enough in the dressing room to do that.”

On the actual game, Pardew admitted his side had been a distant second best from the whistle.

He said: “We didn’t start well. The first goal looked as if it knocked our confidence and we didn’t really recover from that. Liverpool were faster and better organised than us.”

The Newcastle manager highlighted the fact many of his players were inexperienced.

However, the team, including the substitutes, was full of internationals and established Premier League performers.

He said: “We lacked a bit of experience on the pitch. We got ragged after the third goal. That’s not like one of my teams.”

When it was suggested his experienced players should be giving more, he said: “Sometimes you can get dragged down in the spiral of negativity. We all got dragged down by the goals and timing of the goals. Some of the goals should not have been scored in the manner they were. That knocked confidence and our job this week is to lift the heads.

“The fans have every right to boo. That performance isn’t good enough for Newcastle United. We all know that.

“So I expect to come in at 10.30am on Monday morning to see every one of my players out there on the training pitch, even if they have a foot hanging off.

“We need to show we’ve got the heart for this little scrap we are in, because other teams have.

“We haven’t become a bad staff or set of players overnight. But we definitely need to roll up our sleeves and make sure we make a good fist of these last three games.”

Pardew believes four points will still be enough, but where that win comes from is anyone’s guess.

There will be changes at West Ham. Pardew said that Fabricio Coloccini would start, but he could change the entire XI after yesterday.

He said: “We need to look to the players who know this situation. We have two or three in the dressing room who have been relegated at this club, so they know what it’s about. We are going to have to lean on them in games to make sure we have enough experience to get something out of it.

“The only message I can give to the fans is that we will come out fighting. We have had two really hard fought home games and this performance was below the one against Sunderland.”

Pardew would have welcomed any kind words last night.

Some that did come his way were from Jamie Carragher, who said: “I would like to see Newcastle stay up. They are a great club.”

And even Kevin Keegan, while trying to be positive, couldn’t hide from what was a dreadful day for his old club.

On TV he said: “I don’t think they will go down, but that’s as poor as it gets.”