Wigan manager Steve Bruce branded Emmerson Boyce's dismissal "an absolute joke" by the referee at SJP on Saturday, and he could get a carbon copy of the letter Joe Kinnear received last week.
Boyce was sent off by referee Andre Marriner for a second bookable offence nine minutes after the break, despite the fact he had won the ball from Shola Ameobi.
Bruce To Join Kinnear In The Stands?
By Nu Mad
Updated Sunday, 16th November 2008
The FA sent Kinnear a letter last week for allegedly showing "no respect" to the referee at Fulham ... something the FA are to clamp down on.
But why should managers show "respect" to referees who are obviously idiots?
Bruce: "I would love to say what I really want to say, but I can't for obvious reasons.
"But the sending-off is a joke, and absolute joke of a decision, and cost us ultimately.
"I think we comfortably would have gone on to win the game with 11 - we should have won the game with 10, if Henri Camara had taken his chance.
"And now with this stupid rule that you can't appeal two yellow cards, we miss the boy next week for Everton as well, so I am very disappointed.
"It's a howler of a decision. He absolutely got the ball.
"The referee has got to be absolutely nailed on before he gives a yellow card or before he gives a red card because those decisions change games.
"That's why we go nuts. The Respect campaign and all the rest of it - he has got it wrong.
"Sir Alex (Ferguson) is probably right this week; they should come into the training grounds and referee the training games or do something.
"We were robbed three weeks ago at Anfield and it knocked us back, and it was the same thing again here today.
"That's all we are talking about, refereeing decisions."
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