Josh Maja converted the penalty to put his side 2-0 up after George Dobson had earlier diverted Isaac Price’s drilled free-kick into his own net.<\/p>\n
In addition to his concerns around the spot-kick against James Morrison’s side, Parkinson also raised concerns over the treatment of striker Sam Smith.<\/p>\n
Parkinson added: “The second goal is a huge lift for them. You need help from referees and when you get a referee who’s refereed at the top level, you expect better. <\/p>\n
“I have briefly (spoken to the referee after the game) and the other thing I’m getting very frustrated with is the treatment Sam Smith’s been getting. <\/p>\n
“Watford away, the amount times he got hauled to the floor, blocked and body-checked. I sent all the incidents to the head of the referees and he agreed with me on nearly every one. <\/p>\n
“We then go to Sheffield United and [Japhet] Tanganga pulls him down which is a straight red card and the free-kick gets given against Smudge (Smith).<\/p>\n
“Today, there’s a slide wall pass which is putting him clean through and [Nat] Phillips just tugs him. It’s only slight contact, but it’s a red card and I feel Smudge needs more protection.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to send all those instances together and ask the referees over the next two days to give me some answers because he’s had some bad decisions against him, Smudge.”<\/p>\n
West Brom’s interim boss Morrison said he felt the penalty decision was justified given his previous talks with match officials.<\/p>\n
“The referees at the start of the season said they were going to punish that. I’m yet to see it, so I’ll take it all day,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I did feel that he (Kabore) was pulling Jayson, so correct decision.”<\/p>\n
But Parkinson added: “I’m always in communication with Kevin Friend, the head of the referees, because he’s a great guy and he listens. <\/p>\n
“But when the ref reviews those instances tonight, he’ll know I’m right and he’s wrong.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Maja converted the penalty to put his side 2-0 up after George Dobson had earlier diverted Isaac…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-362453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}