Blackpool v Ipswich: Carlos Edwards believes Ipswich were guilty of showing too much respect to undefeated league leaders Blackpool.

The Town skipper also described the Seasiders’ second goal – Gary Taylor-Fletcher’s goal just before half-time making it 2-0 – as a sucker-punch.

But Edwards, typically, was making no excuses for a dire display that saw the Blues concede four goals in 13 minutes either side of half-time and eventually lose 6-0.

He said: “First half, we got a sucker punch on the stroke of half-time. We were coping well, but in the second half everything came crashing down.

“We don’t want to accept it, but we have to as the scoreline says we lost 6-0.

“Fair play to them, they are a good team, but I think we gave them that little extra respect that we shouldn’t have.”

Tweeting after the match, Michael Chopra, who endured a difficult afternoon as the lone striker before being taken off after 69 minutes, said: “Would like to apologise to all the fans today bad performance need to put things right and get back to winning ways.”

Keeper Scott Loach, who was powerless to save any of the six goals, said: “Obvs (obviously) disappointed with the result. Strangest game I’ve been involved in a while. Fair play to our travelling fans for seeing it through.”

While second half sub Ronan Murray added: “Disappointed and gutted about the result today fans were great travelling all that way!!”