Tony Mowbray declined to criticise Keith Stroud for his failure to award Sunderland a penalty late in the first half of their defeat at Leicester City.
Replays showed Dan Neil was tripped by Wout Faes but also suggested the official’s line of sight had been obscured in what turned out to be a surprisingly close contest. At least on the scoreboard
Fuming Sunderland boss hits out at ‘ridiculous’ Leicester City situation
Leicester City’s victory over Sunderland on Tuesday night left the Black Cats boss unhappy and pundits scratching their heads
While all that separated the Foxes from the Black Cats was James Justin’s early header, in truth the visitors were grateful to goalkeeper Anthony Patterson for keeping the score-line down.
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Mowbray was pleased with his stopper but less enamoured by the insufficient amount of added time at the end of the game and told Sky Sports: “Listen, I don’t want to talk about officials anymore. After I finish this season. I’ve had two bookings. I see every week. The crowd here let everybody know what they thought.
“I just get frustrated, you know, in a game like that. The same fourth official put 13 minutes up in our opening day against Ipswich. There was, I don’t know how many subs went on today, nine, ten? How many times the physio was on the pitch? Head injuries.
“And he put five minutes up. I just find it ridiculous, but you can’t argue with them. You have to just accept it and get on. It’s modern day football.”
