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Daniel Farke slams officials denying two penalty appeals and confirms six refereeing apologies

Daniel Farke slams officials denying Leeds two penalty appeals in the game against Sunderland and confirms six refereeing apologies so far.

Leeds were held to a frustrating goalless draw on Tuesday night as they missed the chance to go to the top of the Championship table.

But Farke felt that his team deserved two penalties as in the first half, the ball was crossed in and struck Sunderland defender Dan Ballard’s elbow, while in the second half, a corner hit visiting captain Luke O’Nien’s raised hand. However, referee Tim Robinson turned down both penalty appeals from Leeds.

“We have had six letters this season so far apologising and saying it was a penalty or a red card,” said Farke.

“We’ll probably get two more letters right now. It won’t help us because it doesn’t feel like a fair outcome.

“If we had got two penalties it would have felt we could have at least used one to win this game

“It makes no sense. In general I am never asking for red cards, it’s more like ‘Come on, act a bit earlier with yellow cards’. If you don’t do this you send the message ‘OK, keep going’.”

“It’s not my side to ask for red cards but if there’s a rule that there should be a handball yellow, then I ask only for the rules,” Farke added.

“When you lean into the ball with the elbow and the referee has a clear view of it, sorry, this is something you have to give.

“And in the second half, it was obvious, with both hands in the air, not difficult to see.”

Leeds’ draw hands Ipswich the advantage in the promotion race, especially as leaders Leicester suffered defeat at Millwall, but Farke said keeping calm heads is vital at this stage of the campaign.

“I don’t normally like to speak too much about the past because it has no effect on nowadays, but do you know how I ended my first promotion with Norwich City? Draw, draw, draw, draw, win, win,” he said.

“Do you know what? After each and every draw, everyone was panicking: ‘It’s not enough for promotion’, ‘We need to win this’.

“In the end you see the other results coming in and see a point wasn’t so bad. We won the league with four draws in the last six games.

“I’m not happy, but this draw takes us into the top two and even if Ipswich win the game (v Watford tonight) we are within one win of them.

“It’s important to stay analytical. This is such an emotional club, everyone goes crazy here, so it’s important from a leadership point of view that you don’t run around like a nervous hen.

“How can I ask my players to stay calm and cool in the head if I ran around and over-protected each and every moment?”

Leeds XI: Meslier, Gray, Rodon, Ampadu, Firpo, Gruev, Kamara (Gnonto 71), James (Piroe 82), Summerville, Rutter, Bamford (Joseph 82).

Subs not used: Darlow, Cresswell, Cooper, Byram, Roberts, Anthony.

Sunderland XI: Patterson, Pembele (Alese 68), Hume, O’Nien, Ballard, Styles, Neil, Ekwah, Rigg (Roberts 59), Clarke, Jobe.

Subs not used: Bishop, Hjelde, Ba, Mundle, Aouchiche, Dack, Hemir.

Sunderland won just one of their previous eight league games under interim boss Mike Dodds, but have had clean sheets in four of their last five.

Dodds, who has been in temporary charge for a second time this season when the Black Cats sacked Michael Beale in February, said: “I’m happy for them, but I don’t want to go over the top. I’ve just said to them that we have drawn the game, we haven’t won it.

“There were a lot of positives, but we have drawn the game and I don’t want to be sat here celebrating draws.

“Our out-of-possession stuff was excellent. I didn’t feel at any point that Leeds were going to score or break us down or carve us open.”

Dodds wasn’t drawn on whether Leeds should have been awarded at least one penalty.

“The reality is that these decisions are swings and roundabouts. It would have been unbelievably cruel on us,” he added.

“I felt all their chances came from our sloppy play and I just said to the group my biggest disappointment was our quality with the ball.

“Our evening would have been a lot more comfortable had we not turned it over far too much.”

Twitter users reacted as Daniel Farke slams officials denying two penalty appeals and confirms six refereeing apologies…

@lcfchamez: Ipswich would’ve been given it

@Frosty_nottz93: Karma for when bamford punched it in a few months back that was fun and games

@leegrecruiter: Ref needs suspending on this showing. Abysmal is being kind

@RioHinds99: @EFL your refs are a disgrace . Cost us 3 points

@mjgarrity72: That’s two penalties we should have had

@Leedsbible: Reffing team is genuinely the worst I’ve ever seen on a professional game. I’m stunned. Looked like genuine corruption

@SamGreasley193: @EFL you need to have a word with your officials absolute joke two clear penaltys and how did the ref get three minutes from at the end off the game absolute joke

@Jonatha27707658: The reffing was absolutely shocking 😳 his decision making was absolutely woeful 2 pens he missed and more yellows should have been given out to Sunderland in the manner they played and took out our players 😡😡😡

@jaden_marshy: Fucking scandalous. They’ll do absolutely anything to keep us in this league

@smith_ingham: Referee & linesman both had good views but chose to ignore the evidence along with the shirt pull by the same player. Handball in the 1st half too, would have been a 2nd yellow for the defender so referee bottled it. Tim Robinson was so poor tonight, favouring Sunderland too much

@Savage_I_Adz: Don’t like blaming the ref for our results, we were simply not good enough tonight…..however a famous Argentinian would have been proud of that handball. Shocking

@joshakers93: I know it’s Leeds United but this might be the worst decision of the entire season 🤣

@darrenholden72: As corrupt as it gets. @SkyFootball

@Leedorsi: @EFL one of the many disgraceful decisions, Well done.

@_billyreid: People who only watch the Premier League complain about VAR. See the standard of refereeing in the Sky Bet Championship and I promise you will never complain again

@LeedsWoody1919: Absolutely hideous. Assistant refs on spice

@mattylufc_: It is absolutely SCANDALOUS that that’s not given. Pulled his shirt off his back then played volleyball. Forget the ref how’s the lino not giving that? Why do they even exist? They don’t do anything. Dickheads all of them

@ChattingLeeds: The football league literally corrupt, worst decision of the season in my opinion. Absolute shambles. BUT, we shouldn’t be relying on these idiot officials, we should be playing a lot better. Don’t look up for the fight at the moment and thats the worrying thing #LUFC

@RDunners12: Typical EFL, don’t want their cash cow LUFC getting back out the league.

@lisa_jane23: He even rubs his hand afterwards!!!! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Awful decisions that can change an awful lot at this stage in a season!!! Appalling refereeing tonight

@Rob_saunders6: Our fans laughing on about this but only because we got away with it. Bloke is an absolute liability, especially from corners – if he isn’t doing something like this he’s trying to wrestle his man. Could have so easily lost us the game after a great performance to keep them out #safc

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