Mous: Ref Gill ‘lost control’ in Pompey’s win
John Mousinho has blasted match referee Sunny
Gill’s, below, officiating of Pompey’s 2-0 win at Lincoln.
The irate Blues boss said he was ‘so, so disappointed’ with the match official’s handling of the game and at one point believed he had ‘lost control’ of the fixture.
Gill produced 13 yellow cards, including seven to Pompey players and three to members of the Blues dugout - Mousinho, booked in the first half following an incident involving
Myles Peart-harris and Lincoln’s Ben House, plus his assistant Jon Harley and goalkeeping coach Joe Prodomo.
A question from BBC Radio Solent’s Andy Moon prompted a one-minute, 39-second rant from Mousinho.
He said: ‘We’re not particularly thrilled with our behaviour or the fact we got the yellow cards.
‘It’s difficult here at Lincoln (where the distance between the technical areas is bigger than most grounds) because we’re encouraged to talk to the fourth officials, but then we’re told we can’t come out of our technical areas.
‘I got booked for trying to calm Myles down, which is absolutely bizarre because I thought the referee had lost complete control of the game at that point.
‘He’s booked me for going on the pitch - I saw the entire Lincoln staff on the pitch at various times during the game. I just don’t get it, there’s no consistency whatsoever. ‘What summed it up for me, which summed up the whole day, was when their goalkeeper went down in the first half. The referee has stopped play and we’ve got the ball in the net - he’s stopped play, the goalkeeper’s went down! ‘When Will (Norris) has gone down in the second half, he’s let play go on. What on earth am I supposed to do with that? ‘Of course, we have to be better as a staff. That translates onto the pitch and we’ll take a look at ourselves. But whenever you have three staff booked, there’s two ways you look at it we definitely need to take more responsibility but there was a reason for it and I was so, so disappointed with the referee’s performance today.’