HE'S ATT IT AGAIN (From Thisisdorset)

HE'S ATT IT AGAIN

7:00am Monday 6th October 2008

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JIMMY Quinn slammed blunder referee Stuart Attwell after Cherries were denied a "definite penalty" at Adams Park.

Attwell hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons after handing Reading a 'phantom' goal against Watford in the Championship last week.

On that occasion, Attwell and assistant Nigel Bannister credited Watford star John Eustace with an own goal - even though the ball had actually gone out of play wide of the post off Eustace's thigh.

And Attwell was up to his old tricks again during Cherries' 3-1 defeat to Wycombe on Saturday, infuriating the travelling support with a series of strange decisions - including booking substitute Brett Pitman for 'diving' in the Chairboys box after Craig Woodman appeared to have taken the Cherries striker's legs from under him.

Quinn told the Daily Echo: "It was disappointing. Referees have a difficult job, but I felt he made a couple of decisions that affected the result.

"I thought it was a definite penalty because their lad has put his foot in there. When you do that in the box, it's a penalty, but the referee has obviously seen it differently.

"Sometimes you have to live with those decisions you don't get, but there were a lot of free kicks he gave the opposite way for me as well."

Quinn, who watched his side's brief winning run came to an end, was forced to substitute defender Jason Pearce with blood streaming from a head wound, with the Cherries boss claiming Pearce had been elbowed by Chairboys goalscorer Matt Harrold.

Quinn added: "Jason Pearce got an elbow in the face and the referee gave the free kick the other way.

"It just defied belief. Danny Hollands got booked at the end for going in a little late on a player, but then Scott McGleish has gone in late on Joel Ward and has got away with it while our player got booked.

"I didn't see it, but apparently the linesman put his flag up for their second goal as their player helped the ball in with an elbow, but the referee has chosen to ignore that."

Harrold's first goal for the club put Cherries behind just before half-time, but Danny Hollands's well-taken strike just before the hour mark gave Quinn's men hope.

Chris Zebroski's disputed second-half strike and substitute McGleish's effort, though, ended the Dorset club's hopes of a successful away day.

Quinn said: "They are top of the table and they haven't had a points deduction like we have, but on the second-half performance you wouldn't have known which team was top and which was down the bottom.

"I thought we passed them off the park at times, but we just lacked a bit of cutting edge up front."

Defender Pearce, meanwhile, is expected to be fit for Cherries' Johnstone's Paint Trophy clash at MK Dons tomorrow night despite making the journey back to Bournemouth on Saturday with a bandage around his head.

He said: "It's a bit sore, but I should be fine for Tuesday. I could have had stitches but I didn't want them.

"Hopefully it will heal okay for Tuesday."

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