Speaking after the match, which saw the Cherries go down to a late Pool winner, manager Lee Bradbury was quoted in the Bournemouth Evening Echo as saying: "We played well enough to win the game but, unfortunately, some of it was out of our hands. Yes, that one and another one when Marc Pugh was running through and Paul Murray had already been booked. If he had not been on a caution, I felt he would have given him a yellow card. We are just looking for some consistency, as managers. Sometimes, you are on the positive end of those decisions and, other times, it drives you mad when you are not. Warren has got three holes in his shin – through his shin pad. In my eyes – I was stood 20 yards away from it – it was a red card. I went in to see the referee but he did not think he had made any mistakes. It is there to be looked at. I feared for Warren at first because it was the leg he broke a few years ago. I was disappointed with the referee".
Midfield dynamo, Harry Arter, was quoted on the incidents that could have seen Hartlepool reduced to 9-men: "I don’t understand how it wasn’t a red card. It was a reckless challenge, it was high and it was late. Wally has the stud marks on his leg and has a massive, gaping hole in his shin. I just can’t understand how the referee has decided it was only a yellow card. It’s disappointing – especially after the other lad should have gone for a second bookable offence. He went through Pughy from behind and it was a second yellow card without a doubt. The referee let them off lightly in my opinion".
Source: FOOTYMAD
