SCOTT Parker admitted he felt "hugely hurt" as Cherries found themselves on the end of a massive FA Cup upset against Boreham Wood.

Veteran Mark Ricketts scored the only goal as the non-league side, who sit three divisions and 75 places below Championship Cherries, picked up a stunning victory at Vitality Stadium.

Parker's men produced a woeful first-half display and despite rallying after the restart, could not find a way back into the contest as Luke Garrard's Boreham Wood booked their round five trip to Everton.

Asked if this defeat ranks among his lowest moments in football, Parker told the Daily Echo: "Yeah definitely, a million per cent, it’s right up there.

"I’m hugely hurt and disappointed. I’ve been involved around football for a long time.

"We all know the magic of the FA Cup and what that brings.

"But I don’t want to be sitting here on the end of that. That’s the cold, hard facts.

"I don’t want to be on the end of a giant-killing, as magic as it is.

"I wanted to be here tonight and put a performance in and win the game. We’ve not managed to do that.

"Sometimes you have to take your medicine. Tonight we have to take our medicine and I have to take mine.

"We have to make sure we react. That’s my job between now and Wednesday night."

Reflecting on the contest as a whole, Parker added: "Firstly I compliment and have full praise for Boreham Wood.

"Luke, his staff and his players were well worthy and deserved the result tonight for many reasons. I wish them nothing but all the bit.

"That first half was a tone-setter for us really. I didn’t expect us to look like we looked first half.

"I thought we were very passive. We never threatened one bit. We didn’t cause them any problems.

"Second half, very different. The way the second half panned out I’d have expected the whole game to look like that really.

"In saying that, second half, for all the chances we’ve had, we haven’t been able to convert.

"They defended heroically in terms of defending their box. In the end, if you give the team a goal or you give them something to hold onto and cling onto, it becomes very, very difficult and that’s the way it was."

He continued: "I felt like the first half just escalated into that a little bit didn’t it?

"You were all in the stadium, I was standing in the stadium and you felt a real edginess about it.

"I think that definitely did transcend onto the pitch.

"What frustrated me was the game is there to score goals, we need to come with a certain desire to score goals, to threat, to really push when we can.

"We just didn’t do that. As the first half goes, they score a goal before that and there’s possibilities they could’ve had a couple more. We never looked like getting near their goal in the first half.

"That was bitterly disappointing from our behalf. We changed that at half-time and explained that to the players.

"I thought second half we did that. The players coming on were magnificent in that really in terms of trying to get ourselves back in the game, but we didn’t manage to do that."