Swansea City 1 Queens Park Rangers 1: match report
Read a full match report of the Premier League game between Swansea City and Queens Park Rangers at the Liberty Stadium on Tuesday Dec 27 2011.
Queens Park Rangers manager Neil Warnock on Tuesday night called the performance of referee Lee Probert “a kick in the teeth” as his side had to settle for a point at the Liberty Stadium.
Although it was a first point in four games for Warnock’s men, he was incensed by Probert’s decision not to penalise Danny Graham for an apparent handball in the build-up to the striker’s 14th-minute goal, but he also expressed incredulity about the official’s decision not to award Swansea City a “stonewall” penalty when Graham was tripped by Armand Traore.
“We are very disappointed at their goal, as you would be,” said Warnock, who spent much of the game protesting to the fourth official, Kevin Friend. “It’s a deliberate handball, he gains an advantage and he wouldn’t have scored otherwise.“The referee said he saw the handball, but that it was not deliberate. That disappoints me even more. I also thought it [Swansea’s claim] the most stonewall penalty you will see, perhaps the most certain penalty ever. It definitely looked a penalty from where we were.
“I thought there were a number of mistakes tonight but it’s the match-winning ones you want them to get right.
“It [the handball] was a kick in the teeth, it felt such an injustice at half time, but I suppose it spurred us on. We got on the front foot, passed it quicker and had a go at them. Faurlin and Taarabt were superb and our centre halves defended how I want centre-halves to defend.”Fortunately for Rangers, Jamie Mackie’s 58th-minute equaliser sent them back to west London with a deserved draw and at least some consolation for the manager.Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers was similarly scathing in his assessment of the decision that saw his side denied a spot-kick, branding Probert’s display as “inconsistent”.
“It was a clear penalty, I have had the chance to see it from a few angles and it was a definite penalty,” he said.
“I thought it summed up Lee’s performance which was was very inconsistent right the way through.”
Both sides have found points difficult to come by of late, and it was little wonder that the locals in the crowd let out a huge sigh of relief when Graham made the most of Probert’s leniency. After an opening period during which neither side had shown their hand, City’s £3 million striker wriggled free from Fitz Hall and duly beat Paddy Kenny at his far post.- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
“It [the handball] was a kick in the teeth, it felt such an injustice at half time, but I suppose it spurred us on. We got on the front foot, passed it quicker and had a go at them. Faurlin and Taarabt were superb and our centre halves defended how I want centre-halves to defend.”Fortunately for Rangers, Jamie Mackie’s 58th-minute equaliser sent them back to west London with a deserved draw and at least some consolation for the manager.Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers was similarly scathing in his assessment of the decision that saw his side denied a spot-kick, branding Probert’s display as “inconsistent”.
“It was a clear penalty, I have had the chance to see it from a few angles and it was a definite penalty,” he said.
“I thought it summed up Lee’s performance which was was very inconsistent right the way through.”
Both sides have found points difficult to come by of late, and it was little wonder that the locals in the crowd let out a huge sigh of relief when Graham made the most of Probert’s leniency. After an opening period during which neither side had shown their hand, City’s £3 million striker wriggled free from Fitz Hall and duly beat Paddy Kenny at his far post.- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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