Paulo Sousa has blasted the standard of officiating in England after seeing Swansea hold Crystal Palace.
Warnock disappointed to only take a point
Paulo Sousa has blasted the standard of officiating in England after seeing Swansea hold Crystal Palace to a goalless draw.
The Swans were forced to play 73 minutes of their latest Championship outing with 10 men after seeing Albert Serran sent off.
The Welsh outfit were able to regroup after the early setback, and were rarely troubled by Palace, but Sousa felt his side were denied the opportunity to chase maximum points by some dodgy decisions.
He fumed: "It's not easy but we need to be strong to get above such things as has happened to us today. Perhaps the officials do not want to see us high up in the table.
"The sending-off was ridiculous and if standards of refereeing are not improved it will kill the game.
"We train hard and try to play good football and so I want to see good referees.
"I will not show him respect by speaking to him as he has not shown any respect to us by his actions today.
"I don't know if we would have won with a full side but we did make a number of chances."
Opportunity
Meanwhile, Palace boss Neil Warnock was left frustrated after seeing his side fail to benefit from their numerical advantage.
"I'm really disappointed because we had the opportunity to take all three points," he said.
"Sometimes it is more difficult to play against 10 men but we tried to go out for the win and could have done it in the closing minutes.
"I changed it around in the second half by putting on Alan Lee and Freddie Sears and they both could have done better towards the end of the match as they had clear chances to get us the victory."
