Tony Brown launches accusation at Patrick Roberts after Sunderland v West Brom incident
Tony Brown agreed with the decision to not award Sunderland a penalty in the first half of their 2-1 win over West Brom at the Stadium of Light on Saturday.
Patrick Roberts was brought down under a challenge by Jayson Molumby but referee Darren Bond waved away appeals, much to the anger of Sunderland fans at the Stadium of Light.
However, replays suggest that Roberts started to go down before making contact with Molumby by dragging his foot across the grass.
Brown believes it was the correct call because Roberts dived.
Speaking on BBC Radio WM on Saturday (9 December, 12:52pm), Bomber Brown said: “[Molumby] is telling him it’s a dive. They’re having a little bit of argy-bargy, the two of them, there.”
Brown added: “He should have shot earlier, he delayed it and he gave Albion the time to get the challenge off and he was appealing for a penalty, but it wasn’t a penalty. The referee’s having none of it.
“That was never a foul. He’s gone down too easy.”
One correct decision
Bond and his team of officials were woeful at the Stadium of Light on Saturday – and even Sunderland fans should agree with that.
Jobe Bellingham’s goal was not offside. He was at least a couple of yards onside due to Cedric Kipre.
And then Dan Ballard – who ended up scoring Sunderland’s opening goal – should have been shown a straight red card for a horrific scissor-like challenge on Josh Maja.
Maja ended up limping off the bench with what looks like yet another serious ankle injury.
On top of that, there were incidents throughout the game. Officials failed to spot Alex Palmer’s incredible finger-tip save and didn’t award Sunderland a corner while weird yellow cards and fouls were given out for incidents involving both sets of players.
But that Roberts and Molumby incident was the right call by Bond.
Well done, you got one decision right.
In other West Brom news, Guochuan Lai simply won’t give Corberan what he said he wants at The Hawthorns.