Salford City boss in furious rant at ref 24 hours after Gary Neville made feelings clear

Salford City fell to a disappointing 2-1 decision astatine location to Grimsby Town connected Saturday - and Ammies caput manager Karl Robinson didn't clasp backmost connected referee Jacob Miles aft the match

Salford City caput manager Karl Robinson brutally tore into referee Jacob Miles aft helium failed to grant his broadside a punishment successful their 2-1 nonaccomplishment against Grimsby Town.

The League Two outfit, who are owned by The Class of 92, fell to a 4th league decision of the run astatine location to the Mariners, who saw teenage guardant Luca Harrington container a archetypal fractional brace.

Robinson was near furious aft the last whistle, chiefly owed to Miles' performance. He was peculiarly aggrieved by the determination to snub a punishment entreaty aft Kelly N'Mai deed the platform - a telephone Robinson branded "an implicit disgrace."

“I would emotion to cognize however it could beryllium that atrocious of a performance, it’s impossible,” the Salford brag raged during his post-match interview.

“The punishment is an implicit disgrace. I tin accidental our defending and finishing was a disgrace astatine times contiguous arsenic well, but that was lone portion of the communicative today.

“Some of the tackles arsenic well, I’m amazed that immoderate of my players aren’t successful a worse place. I’d accidental the amended squad lost. At the extremity of the time they won, but I americium perfectly fuming connected outer influences connected the result.

“It sounds worse erstwhile you lose, but astatine the extremity of the time that was not an acceptable show from the officials today.

“Our defending for the 2 goals was appalling, though, and I’ve gone perfectly brainsick astatine the players. We were the amended squad contiguous and I don’t deliberation anybody could reason that with the chances we created.”

Robinson's post-match rant comes little than 24 hours aft Salford part-owner Gary Neville shared a societal media station confirming that Nottingham Forest had been charged £750,000 by The FA for a powerfully worded societal media station which criticised a fig of decisions made during a Premier League lucifer past season.

Forest said successful station connected X: “Three highly mediocre decisions - 3 penalties not fixed - which we simply cannot accept. We warned the PGMOL that the VAR is simply a Luton instrumentality earlier the crippled but they didn’t alteration him. Our patience has been tested aggregate times. NFFC volition present see its options.”

Neville was highly captious of the club's actions astatine the time, saying: “It’s similar a mafia pack statement, honestly… what the hellhole are they playing at?”

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