Referee forced to apologise to Hull City manager after Sunderland controversy

Sunderland ran retired 1-0 winners implicit Hull City to determination backmost to the apical of the Championship, but their winning extremity - scored by Wilson Isidor - came with a much than a hint of controversy

Wilson Isidor’s wonderment onslaught sent Sunderland backmost apical of the Championship but near Hull fuming.

The pacey French forward, connected indebtedness from Zenit St Petersburg, scored his 3rd extremity successful 4 games arsenic the Black Cats landed different win.

He raced 60m from wrong his ain fractional arsenic the visitors countered from a Hull corner, calmly holding disconnected Cody Drameh earlier cooly lifting the shot implicit Ivor Pandur.

But City were furious astir the thrilling 63rd infinitesimal victor arsenic they claimed referee Robert Madley got successful the mode of midfielder Marvin Mehlem astatine the commencement of the play.

Defender Alfie Jones earned a yellowish paper for complaining excessively much. But Tigers main Tim Walter fired: “Maybe you could interrogation the referee. It’d beryllium amended [than my thoughts].

“It’s truly frustrating. He apologised afterwards for the concern but that doesn’t assistance us. He said helium was good prepared. If helium was, he’d cognize we play a batch of situations [at corners] short.

“He said helium was good prepared but if you don’t find the close presumption successful this lawsuit possibly you are not good prepared. One 100 percent we could bash amended [in defending Isidor] but sometimes it’s not our mistake.

“There was besides a wide handball. He [Chris Mepham] handled it backmost to the keeper. For maine it’s a reddish paper We person to judge it. But it’s similar a neverending story.”

Hull were incensed conscionable earlier half-time erstwhile the Black Cats centre-half handled Jones’ long, diagonal shot to contradict a accidental for Gustavo Puerta.

Sunderland did astir of the pressing successful the archetypal fractional but created fewer clear-cut opportunities. Hull, who had won 3 of their past 4 games, looked much unsafe connected the counter-attack via Chris Bedia, Mohamed Belloumi and Abu Kamara.

But either their last walk wasn’t up to scratch oregon the outstanding Mepham recovered to woody with the situation. Hull’s archetypal existent accidental came successful the 52nd infinitesimal erstwhile Belloumi curled a left-footed changeable conscionable implicit from the borderline of the punishment area.

Soon after, Bedia rifled a changeable that rattled the barroom earlier Anthony Patterson made a spectacular prevention arsenic Cirkin slid into contradict Belloumi and the shot ricocheted goalwards from 25m.

But Sunderland deed them connected the antagonistic from the resulting country and determination was nary mode back. Sunderland brag Regis Le Bris admitted: “Wilson [Isidor] has that prime to devour the space.

“He tin tally and tally and run. He kept the consistency to bushed the keeper arsenic well. It was a superb goal. There’s inactive a question of assurance for him but helium wants to amended and has galore qualities. He made the quality today.

“I can’t justice the referee’s presumption oregon engagement due to the fact that that’s not my priority.”

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