Sunderland defender Michael Turner has lifted the lid on Phil Brown's famous halftime rant at his Hull City players on the Manchester City pitch last season.

Turner told the Daily Mail: "There's no way he lost the dressing room. I'm not sure it actually had that much of an impact on the dressing room. The week before we'd lost badly to Sunderland, and we were taking another tonking.

"I know how I felt that day, dazed. We were 4-0 down. I wasn't thinking: "What the hell's he doing keeping us on the pitch?" I was more worried about what the hell had just happened.

"I had my head between my knees. I can hardly remember what the manager said. There probably was a bit of bitching about it but Phil Brown's the manager and the players respected that. He makes the decisions. There's no way he lost the dressing room.

"We were a team that was new to the Premier League and you get swings in form like that. We started well but then we struggled, and yet did enough to stay up. Phil Brown's a good coach and he was a good manager for me."