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Darren Way criticises referee following Yeovil defeat



Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2019 by PA

Darren Way criticises referee following Yeovil defeat

Darren Way blasted referee Tim Robinson’s decision to send off Tom James in the first half of Yeovil’s 1-0 defeat at Cheltenham.

The 10 men of Yeovil performed well, but were eventually undone by Luke Varney’s 59th-minute strike which eased the Robins’ relegation fears and left Way’s side deeper in trouble.

The dismissal came in the 21st minute when James challenged Alex Addai just outside the penalty area and Way was also sent from the touchline for his protests.

“You could see the pitch was wet and I am not sure who gave it, but he didn’t leave the ground with two feet,” Way said.

“He’s tried to make contact and I believe he was frustrated to have a goal, another goal, disallowed from his free-kick and whatever he’s given that for is frightening.

“I’ve never been involved in a game with that many goals disallowed.

“We are in a situation where I have to stand up and fight and that’s one thing my team did.

“We dominated from start to finish and had more attacks.

“We looked really positive and when you are down and around where we are, you have to look at your team, grow belief from that.

“Sitting in the stand, I saw we have good players, good spirit and it was a good performance and tactically we had it spot on but I didn’t envisage a referee’s performance like that.”

Cheltenham boss Michael Duff described it as a “stonewall red card” but admitted his team did not play well on the night.

“Sometimes you have to grind a result out,” Duff said.

“I have been saying that we needed to do that a little bit better.

“Sometimes can we nick a draw when we’ve not been great, or can we pinch a win and I think we probably did pinch the win tonight.

“I don’t think we were great, but we’ve been brilliant this season, Crawley away recently, and lost.

“There’s very fine margins in this league and sometimes they are won on one moment or two moments in a game.

“We didn’t really get going today, or pass the ball. We were a little bit edgy on a difficult night, wet and windy and it was a good three points.”

Yeovil made the brighter start with James seeing a 25 yard free-kick goal disallowed after Robinson spotted a foul on the box.

But after James was dismissed they faced an uphill struggle.

Varney flicked Ryan Broom’s cross into the net, but he was offside.

Alex Fisher had the ball in the net in both the 36th and 39th minutes, but on both occasions the offside flag was raised as it remained goalless at half-time.

The deadlock was broken when a cross from Broom was cleared as far as Varney, who leaned back and fired a fine shot into the top right corner.

Substitute Rakish Bingham was denied a debut goal by Stuart Nelson’s save with his feet a minute later.

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