Source: PA
Jenas criticises referee over Crouch dismissal
Jermaine Jenas claims Tottenham's chances of making the Champions League semi-final have been severely hampered by the "rash" decision of the "inexperienced" referee who sent Peter Crouch off.
Spurs' hopes of making the last four look all but over after they took a 4-0 beating from Real Madrid at the Bernabeu in the first leg of their quarter-final clash.
Harry Redknapp's side were not helped in the slightest by Crouch, who felled Sergio Ramos and Marcelo deep inside the Real half to earn two yellow cards and leave his team-mates to battle on without him for 75 minutes.
Thirty five-year-old referee Felix Brych, taking charge of his 12th Champions League match, was the man who gave Crouch his marching orders.
He, Jenas insists, should have exercised leniency given that both of the striker's fouls came deep in enemy territory at such an early stage in the match.
"I think the referee was a little bit rash," Jenas said. "Maybe it was inexperience on his part more than anything. At some point you have a word, you just talk to the player, rather than dishing out cards every two minutes."
