Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock was left ruing refereeing decisions for the second week running after the defeat to Sunderland at Selhurst Park last night.

The Eagles should have had a penalty within 30 seconds when Santiago Vergini felled Fraizer Campbell as he homed in on goal.

If the penalty had been given, Gus Poyet’s men would have been reduced to 10 men, but Phil Dowd waved away appeals, as he did when Patrick van Aanholt tussled with Wilfried Zaha inside the box half an hour later.

A deflated Warnock, who last week was bewildered by officials failing to spot an “assault” on Julian Speroni as West Brom, again felt his team had been hard done by.

Jedinak sees red but points a finger at referee Dowd

He said of Vergini's challenge: “Everyone knows it’s a penalty. The ref says he didn’t see it, but he was in a great position. He’s just taken his legs. You can see it clearly.

“The only chance we’ve got is someone picking the ball up and throwing at the ref.”

He added: “It’s 35 seconds in, they could have been down to 10 men. They change games. Last week, the elbow into the face of Speroni changed the game at 2-0 up.

“All we want is consistency. We want top-class referees to get top-class decisions right and at the moment it is not happening for us. It is disappointing but hopefully things will change.

“We were told after the West Brom game that we should appeal for the penalties more, but we shouldn’t have to appeal for penalties.

“If somebody kicks your shin and you go down it should be given.”

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