Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer has branded the players an "embarrassment".

Shearer feels Saturday's 3-2 defeat to Swansea at St James' Park was a tipping point and he is genuinely worried about their chances of being caught by the clubs below them.

He wrote in The Sun: "Carver himself has been getting some stick. But he loves the club and I know he is hurting.

"Why don't the Newcastle players start taking some responsibility? Because right now they are an embarrassment."