Jack Ross in tetchy Dundee United interview before watching his side concede after 42 SECONDS against Hearts

Jack Ross got spiky with BBC reporter Brian McLaughlin when pushed for an answer on how his team have responded to their 7-0 thrashing in Alkmaar. And the Dundee United boss was left with more reason to be frustrated after they went behind with less than a minute on the clock against Hearts.

Ross watched his team fall to the joint-worst ever result for a Scottish side in Europe as they threw a one-goal lead from the first leg to crash out of the Europa Conference League. They were comprehensively taken apart by AZ and Ross was tasked with picking his players up for a trip to Tynecastle.

Ross was speaking on BBC Sportsound before the game, which saw his side fall behind after just 42 seconds to a Lawrence Shankland strike. He was asked by McLaughlin how his team had bounced back and said: "It's my job. It's other people who take it to the extremes, I suppose it's part of their jobs to do that but my job is to lead players and staff.

"That starts immediately after the final whistle on Thursday so every bit of my behaviour and actions they take a lead from. It meant when we report back for training we're ready to go today. I think any negativity of criticism you get it can either make you doubt yourself or it can make you motivated to put things right and I think that's what we have to do today."

McLaughlin then asked if Ross had sat down and gone over the game with his players, and the manager grew increasingly frustrated with the line of questioning. He said: "No it's done, Brian, I just said that. It's finished. We've got a game three days later, we can't affect anything that's gone before we can only affect what lies ahead of us and that's today's game, that's the one our focus and concentration has been on. I