Baraclough bemoans goal call

02 March 2011 10:30
Scunthorpe boss Ian Baraclough slammed referee Graham Salisbury's decision to disallow Lee Miller's first-half header and insisted his side deserved at least a point at Portsmouth. Second-half goals from Dave Kitson and Aaron Mokoena handed Pompey a fifth straight league victory and at the other end Jamie Ashdown kept a fifth successive clean sheet, but it could have been a different story had Salisbury not chalked off Lee Miller's 18th minute header for a foul on Greg Halford. Baraclough said: "It's too easy to give decisions against smaller clubs in this division away from home. There was nothing there. You pay your centre forward to have their eyes on the ball and that's all he (Miller) did. "He didn't look at the defender, he didn't put his arms out, he didn't push and he didn't put his elbow anywhere. He got above the defender early and attacked the cross. It was a perfectly good goal and you tell me if there was something wrong with it. "The referee was the one who gave the decision. The reaction of all 22 players told you it was a goal. There was one person that saw it differently. He said he (Miller) had his elbow into the head of (Greg) Halford. "For long spells, especially the first half and the beginning of the second, I thought we were the better side. If we went in at half time 1-0 up, how it should have been, then I think it would have been a different game."

Source: PA