Boss not happy with referee’s performance

Institute manager Paul Kee wasn’t happy with referee Arnold Hunter’s display, on Saturday.
Institute manager Paul Kee wasn't happy with referee Arnold Hunter's display. Picture by Darren Kidd/Press EyeInstitute manager Paul Kee wasn't happy with referee Arnold Hunter's display. Picture by Darren Kidd/Press Eye
Institute manager Paul Kee wasn't happy with referee Arnold Hunter's display. Picture by Darren Kidd/Press Eye

The Stute gaffer also felt that the Maguiresbridge official shouldn’t have allowed David McDaid’s quickly taken free-kick to set-up Garrett’s winner should have been retaken, as he felt the ball was rolling.

“We gave ourselves a chance but I don’t think the winning goal should have stood and I told the referee that,” he conceded.

“Yes it was a free-kick but I thought the ball was rolling when he passed it, the referee said it wasn’t.

“But you don’t get those decisions, to be honest I had a word with him at half-time because I thought he was a bit one sided in the first half.

“I said to him ‘hang on a wee minute I know we are a wee team here’ and some of the 50/50’s didn’t go our way.

“But I felt he was a bit better in the second half and although I asked him at the end of the game about the ball not being dead, he said it was but for me I didn’t think so and I felt it should have been brought back.”

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