{"id":463352,"date":"2026-03-07T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463352\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:12:08","slug":"ipswich-town-1-1-leicester-city-gary-rowett-on-penalty-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463352\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town 1-1 Leicester City: Gary Rowett on penalty controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Referee John Busby was surrounded by Ipswich players and staff after the full-time whistle having not awarded what looked to be a stonewall penalty for a clumsy Hamza Choudhury challenge on Cedric Kipre deep into stoppage-time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kieran McKenna was left fuming by the decision, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/sport\/25917284.ipswich-town-1-1-leicester-city-mckenna-two-clear-penalties\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">labelling Busby&#8217;s explanation that he &#8216;didn&#8217;t see it&#8217; as &#8216;crazy&#8217; and &#8216;not good enough&#8217;<\/a>. The Blues boss also felt his side should have had a penalty earlier in the game when Anis Mehmeti went down under the challenge of Harry Winks in the box.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Foxes box Rowett responded: \u201cThe only thing I would say on that, just my observation, is that there were two penalty shouts earlier in the game, on the striker (Ivan Azon) and Mehmeti, where it looked as though they went down easily.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019m not suggesting that means it shouldn\u2019t have been a penalty at the end. I don\u2019t know, I haven\u2019t seen it. But maybe that was in the referee\u2019s mind.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAt that stage of the game, it\u2019s such a huge call to give. There\u2019s so much pushing and pulling in the box. Every time they had a corner we were getting players held at the back post to open up the space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019d have to watch it again. Kieran may well be right. It\u2019s hard in that moment to be sure though and if you\u2019re not sure, the referee can\u2019t give it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referee John Busby was surrounded by Ipswich players and staff after the full-time whistle having not awarded what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-463352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}