Neil Warnock joked he "might have chinned" Sky Sports reporter Jonathan Oakes after taking issue with some of the questions he asked Southampton boss Russell Martin.
Southampton suffered a blow in their Championship promotion push as they were thrashed 5-0 by top of the league Leicester, with both Wilfried Ndidi and Jamie Vardy on target while Abdul Fatawu scored a hat-trick.
The defeat ended Southampton's faint hopes of securing automatic promotion and, with just two games left of the regular season, they can now focus on preparing for the play-offs. Martin fronted up after the loss to give a post-match interview to Oakes.
And Warnock, who was working at the game as a pundit for Sky, said: "You've picked a time where you don't want to be interviewed (as a manager), when you've lost 5-0. And the questions he answered... I might've chinned him if he'd have been talking to me. Oh, you can't do that can you..."
Presenter David Prutton then interjected, saying: "He's a nice fella Jonathan Oakes as well, he hasn't got a face you want to chin." Warnock then continued: "He's come out and he's braved it up, he knows they were terrible.
"He's got to brush himself down on the journey and he's got to stress to the players 'we've had so many supporters travel all this way tonight and pay good money and you've let them down so much that we've got to repay them by getting into the Premier League '."
In the interview, Martin admitted his side "defended pathetically" after Ndidi scored Leicester's second goal. "It was crazy that it ends 5-0. For so long in the game I thought we were really good," he insisted.
"But we're not ruthless and they are. It can't descend into what it descended to after (the second goal). For it to end 5-0 is madness really. It was offside, but it's not the reason we lose 5-0.
"Of course it gives them the advantage in the game. The foul was really simple for a referee. He came through the back of Che to take the ball. But sometimes they get given sometimes they don't.
"We started the second half well but we defended pathetically after we went two goals down. The players that want to fight and care the most and run the most will play."
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