Blackburn Rovers boss Tony Mowbray was left baffled by a disallowed Andri Gudjohnsen goal that cost his side a point at home to Stoke City.
Having pulled one back to make it 2-1 on 87 minutes, Rovers thought they had then levelled when Gudjohnsen powered home a header, only for referee Andrew Kitchen to wipe it out for a mild contact with Stoke defender Ben Wilmot, as Blackburn’s three-game winning home run came to an end.
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“Having watched it back, the disallowed goal is embarrassing really. The referee gets it hugely wrong,” Mowbray told BBC Radio Lancashire. “People come to watch football to see entertainment and goals.
“I can’t understand it really. Does he put his hands up? Yes, because the guy is going to back into him, to protect himself and hold him off.
“Is it a forward motion and a push? No. Does the guy throw his arms up in the air?
“What hurts a little bit more is the inconsistency of the officials, I suppose. A few weeks at West Brom, Gudjohnsen gets blatantly pushed with two hands. Play on, they go down the other end, get a penalty, get back to two each and then win the game late on.
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“Most of the performance was good enough to have won the game. We’ve just got to take it on the chin. And they were silly goals to have lost.”
The first came just before the break when American midfielder Jack McGlynn tried his luck with a cheeky long-range left-foot free-kick from out on the left touchlineand caught out home keeper Balazs Toth, whose desperate attempt to recover at the near post was in vain, before an unlucky, but avoidable own goal.
“I’d been warning them all week that McGlynn’s got a wand of a left foot,” added Mowbray .”You’ve got to cover the goal.
“We played pretty well. We’ve played probably not as well and won football matches. But, there you go, that’s football.”
