Hughton fumes at “incredibly harsh” ref justice.
Posted on January 23rd, 2010 | 24 Comments |
Stevie Wonder James Linnington, reached it’s nadir around the 70 minute mark of the FA Cup travesty againt West Bromwhich Albion. Seconds after refusing Ameobi a penalty at one end, he then awarded a penalty AGAINST the Magpies, along with a harsh red card for scouse right back, Ryan Taylor, sending an already livid Hughton into paroxysms of rage.
In a post match interview, Hughton fumed:
“It is normal at the end of the game when you think that decisions have gone wrongly against you that some sort of anger and frustrations come out.
“The first goal, I can’t for the life of me see how a linesman can rule that over the line from where he was.
“I thought that the first penalty we conceeded was a soft one, and if the referee is going to give a soft penalty like that he has to give the two penalties that were agaist Ryan Taylor and Shola Ameobi.
“I thought we should have had those penalties and that is what is most annoying”
“Their second penalty was a penalty, but we were led to beleive that he was going to give a yellow card to Ryan Taylor and changed his mind to red one. I think that is incredibly harsh.
“Having got back to 2-1, we had a chance. But at 3-1 and down to ten men it was going to be incredibly difficult”
He then became more philosophical, with now the familiar mantra that despite the exit from a second cup competition, it is promotion that is everything, saying:
“Losing is a setback. We wanted to make progress in the cup but it wasn’t to be, and we now have to go on to our main objective which is promotion”.
Cool DJ strikes again! :)