Robins spitting feathers

MARK ROBINS blamed his side and the referee for Coventry’s defeat against Walsall.

Luke Thomas scored for Coventry with Luke Leahy (above) netting twice in injury time to snatch victory.

Robins (right) said: “From some horrendous decision-making, we concede the equaliser and then on the back of that the referee’s given a penalty that’s never a penalty.

“It’s never a penalty in this world. It’s very, very difficult to take.

“Apart from that four-minute spell that’s cost us the match, I thought we were very good in the rest of the game. We can’t make decisions like Lee Burge’s error.

“That one’s cost us dearly today.

“Burge’s obviously thought the ball is coming into the box, maybe it’s held up in the wind or whatever, I don’t know, but stay there and let the defender deal with it and see the game out.

“Having said that, we had chances to go 2-0, 3-0 or 4-0 up.

“And we haven’t put the game to bed like we should have.

“If we score one more goal at 1-0, we win the game.”

Walsall manager Dean Keates praised his side for battling until the

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very end. He said: “We were a little bit scrappy, we lacked a bit of quality with our passing and we weren’t very fluent.

“But give the lads credit – they kept going and they ground something out.

“I’m not sure about the penalty, I’ve not seen it back, but I thought we did enough in the second half to warrant a draw.

“We’ve played better than that and lost games this season. So we will take it, we needed a win.

“I thought we deserved a minimum of a draw out of it and we will take what came at the end.”