Saturday 8 November 2014 07:04, UK
Uwe Rosler called his Wigan side's performance "unforgivable" after they were beaten 3-1 at Bolton on Friday night.
Rosler's vistors twice hit the frame of the goal in the first-half only to concede three times in 11 second-half minutes before Callum McManaman's late reply.
The result leaves Wigan out of the Championship bottom three on goal difference only, and Rosler said: "I have to be honest - Bolton won the game by pure willpower, desire, energy, going to the limit and forcing the issue, forcing the mistakes and forcing the goals - all credit to them.
"We just folded altogether. And for that I have no understanding whatsoever. I take responsibility. I'm not blaming anybody but when we analyse the second half, we gave up.
"I apologise to the chairman, I apologise to the supporters. It's very, very seldom in the last 10 years that I had a team who gave up in the way we gave up in the second half.
"I felt embarrassed by the performance that we have given in the second half. I'm not sure that meant as much for some of my players as it meant for our supporters and for our chairman.
"In any competitive game of football you never give up, you always fight to the end. To give up at Bolton in the second half in a derby game - it is unforgivable."
Asked about his future teh German said: "You'll have to ask the chairman. I am fearless, but there's always a risk when I started (as a manager) 10 years ago and it is still the same."
Bolton, meanwhile, recorded back-to-back wins for the first time this season and are now out of the relegation places.
Neil Lennon said: "For the first time in eight, nine weeks we are out of the bottom three and actually looking up the table.
"I think they've put a marker down this week in terms of the level of performances tonight and Tuesday night to show they can certainly play and compete at this level very, very well.
"We've set a benchmark; the game's live on TV across the nation so people are starting to talk about Bolton in a positive way, rather than a negative way. That's the first part of the job done."
