Town's Ternent blasts referee over spot kick

Oct 6 2008 by Dougie Thomson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

STAN’S BLAST AT REFEREE

STAN TERNENT slammed referee Andy Hall as Town slumped 3-2 at home to League I leaders Leicester City.

The manager was frustrated at a series of decisions by the West Midlands whistler in a match settled by Lloyd Dyer’s scuffed stoppage-time winner.

His main gripe was over the 65th-minute penalty which allowed Matty Fryatt to put the Foxes two up with his second goal of the afternoon (his first was in the 50th minute).

Hall ruled that right-back Jim Goodwin had handled Dyer’s cross, but Ternent insisted: “He went to block the ball, and while I’m not saying it didn’t hit his arm, there was no danger and the lad was outside the 18-yard box and near the dead-ball line.

“It’s quite incredible.

“We talk about the Respect programme, but the referee came off at half-time and said he had made only one mistake. At the end I asked him how many mistakes and he said ‘none’. Where’s the respect?”