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Mowbray unhappy with Jones

02 Nov 2008 - 11:07:45

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West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Mowbray hit out at the performance of referee Mike Jones in his side's 2-2 draw at home to Blackburn Rovers.

Jones awarded Rovers a soft penalty early on in the game, before reducing the visitors to ten men with the controversial sending-off of goalscorer Benni McCarthy.

Roman Bednar and Ishmael Miller then gave the Baggies the lead, only for Keith Andrews to rescue a point at the death for the visitors.

Mowbray said after the game: "You prepare all week and then find yourself a goal down from a decision you never see given on a football ground.

"The cameras might show there is a pull or a tug, but you don't give penalties for things like that in football. Refs do not give decisions like that. It bewildered me.

"In the real world, you don't get them given. If you want 7-7 games for all those decisions given in a game, that is what you are going to have. It is disappointing.

"It was also never a sending-off in a million years. Never in a million years. I don't think there is any room for that. This is the Premier League and you've got decisions like that spoiling football matches.

"I would suggest that McCarthy probably got pushed and I was expecting a free-kick against my player (Ryan Donk), not handball and a sending-off."