League One manager sent off after squaring up to rival player in heated post-match exchange

Bolton manager Ian Evatt was fixed a reddish paper aft helium squared up to Shrewsubry's Morgan Feeney astatine full-time arsenic tempers boiled implicit astatine full-time astatine the Toughsheet Community Stadium

Bolton manager Ian Evatt was shown a reddish paper aft squaring up to a rival subordinate aft his broadside were held by Shrewsbury.

The Trotters shared the spoils with Shrewsbury successful a four-goal brushwood but astatine full-time tempers flared with Evatt successful the midst of speaking to the referee, who had played 60 seconds less than the allotted 8 minutes of added clip earlier blowing the last whistle.

Shrewsbury's Morgan Feeney appeared to rotation past and person a connection successful Evatt's ear, which caused the Bolton brag to spot red. He pushed the defender distant earlier going connected to enactment his caput against the 25-year-old's arsenic they squared up.

Evatt was near stunned arsenic helium walked distant successful disgust aft being fixed his marching orders. It besides meant that, arsenic per EFL rules, the Bolton brag was incapable to talk to the media pursuing his sending disconnected meaning helium couldn't beryllium quizzed connected the incident.

Bolton adjunct Pete Atherton conducted post-match duties, wherever helium gave his instrumentality connected the disagreement betwixt Evatt and Feeney - claiming the second should person besides seen red.

He said: "The gaffer went implicit to the ref and asked wherefore determination wasn’t clip added connected to the clip added, if you will. They talked astir that and 1 of their players has started to get involved. They had words, the ref gave the gaffer a reddish and their subordinate a yellow. So I americium not rather definite wherefore determination is simply a reddish for 1 and a yellowish for the other. It was thing that helium said to the referee.”

Pressed arsenic to whether Evatt made interaction with Feeney, Atherton stated: "I evidently can’t remark connected that due to the fact that I haven’t seen that footage.”

Bolton had recovered themselves 2-0 down connected their ain spot earlier a second-half fightback. Goals from Kyle Dempsey and Szabolcs Schön had them level conscionable aft the hr mark, but they were incapable to find a winner, leaving them 13th successful League One.

The Bolton adjunct said: “In the archetypal fractional we didn’t get to the levels we expected aft the 2 bully distant wins successful the league. We didn’t conscionable springiness them 1 limb up, we gave them two.

"But the effect successful the 2nd fractional was excellent. We had 30 minutes to effort and get the winner. We huffed and puffed, created a mates of chances and their keeper made a mates of bully saves but we couldn’t get the winner.”

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