Source: SKY_Sports
Bruce blasts Lampard goal
Wigan manager Steve Bruce believes that a refereeing decision cost his team from coming away from Stamford Bridge with a point.
Frank Lampard scored the winning goal in the last minute of the Latics' match with Chelsea amidst suspicions that he pushed Mario Melchiot when jumping for his header.
Bruce is absolutely sure that Wigan should have been awarded a foul instead of conceding a goal.
"For me it's a blatant push. He knows what he's doing, Frank," Bruce told Sky Sports.
"He's turned Mario when he's gone to jump, pushed him slightly and turned his shoulders.
"Fair play to Frank: we all do it and we all get away with it. The referee's ten yards away. Mario's unopposed to head the ball so why's he not just headed the ball unless he was impeded?"
The former Manchester United captain also claimed that numerous other vital decisions went against his side.
He claimed the home side should not have been awarded a corner in the lead-up to their first goal.
"I wasn't happy with the Drogba shot, it wasn't a corner, which he gave a corner for and this is the lead-up to it," he added.
"Before N'Zogbia was booked there was a foul by John Obi Mikel, I said that to the fourth official.
"Sometimes when you go to these big clubs you honestly ask yourself: are they really, really genuine?
"There's that amount of decisions that go against us and go against the smaller clubs is unbelievable, it really is."
The Latics' boss, whose side stay seventh in the Premier League, was adamant that he deserved at least a point from the encounter.
He is also excited at the prospect of Uefa Cup football at the JJB Stadium next season.
"It'll be terrific, you can see why we're up there," he added.
"In the last two months we've played Chelsea, Liverpool, all the top teams and acquitted ourselves really well.
"Maybe we've not got quite what we deserved, certainly in today's performance we didn't but we'll keep on trying.
"We've got a huge two or three games left against teams in and around us and that'll obviously define our season."
