Kenny Shiels has issued an apology after claiming his Northern Eire ladies's facet conceded quick-fire targets as a result of they're "extra emotional" than males.
The previous Kilmarnock and Morton supervisor has come below fireplace after making the weird comment following his crew's World Cup qualifying defeat to England on Tuesday evening.
Pundits and followers have lined as much as slam Shiels' view that there's an "emotional imbalance" within the ladies's sport that results in targets being shipped in clusters.
However following the response, the 65-year-old has moved to express regret.
Shiels stated in assertion: "I want to apologise for my feedback made within the post-match press convention final evening. I'm sorry for the offence that they've prompted.
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"Final evening was a special day for the ladies’s sport in Northern Eire and I'm proud to handle a gaggle of gamers who're position fashions for therefore many women, and boys, throughout the nation.
"I'm an advocate for the ladies's sport and keen about growing alternatives for ladies and ladies to flourish."
Shiels had claimed in his post-match press convention that there was a sample within the ladies's sport that pointed to a psychological.
He stated on Tuesday evening: "I assumed they have been struggling a wee bit at occasions to open us up till the psychology of going two up.
"Within the ladies's sport, you may have observed when you undergo the patterns, when a crew concedes a purpose they concede a second one inside a really brief time frame.
"Proper by means of the entire spectrum of the ladies's sport, as a result of women and girls are extra emotional than males, in order that they take a purpose entering into not very effectively.
"So when you watch, when you undergo the stats - which journalists like to do - undergo stats and you will see groups conceding targets in 18 and 21 minutes, after which in 64 and 68 minutes. They group them as a result of that's an emotional purpose.
"We conceded in 48, with three in seven minutes or three in 9 on Friday [in 3-1 defeat to Austria]. We have been acutely aware of that once we went 1-0 down, we killed the sport and tried to only gradual it proper to provide them time to get that emotional imbalance out of their head. And that is a difficulty that we've got - not simply Northern Eire - however all of the international locations have that drawback."