Town boss Paul Jewell said he felt that his side had been robbed after the Blues’ 2-2 draw at Cardiff, the Bluebirds' second goal coming via a highly contentious penalty.

After the game, Jewell explained to quizzical reporters how he saw the incident in which the spotkick was awarded by referee Dean Whitestone: “The way I see it, the linesman gave a corner and the referee didn’t give anything.

“Then after a mass of confusion, after the penalty shouts from Cardiff players and supporters, he points to the spot. Don’t ask me how he came to that decision, but he did.

“It was handball against Carlos Edwards, apparently. Rob Earnshaw’s kicked it up against Carlos Edwards, who is about a yard from him. It’s a ridiculous decision, but there you go.”

The Blues boss says his side ought to have sealed the win prior to the spotkick when Jason Scotland was thwarted by Cardiff keeper David Marshall: “After they got the equaliser the crowd has lifted them.

“At 2-1 we should have been 3-1 up. I think they were moaning a bit about our second goal but the linesman put his flag up just to let the referee that the ball had gone over the line, not for offside. There wasn’t even a question of offside.

“I think that riled the crowd a little bit and I just thought at times throughout the game the referee looked a little bit out of his depth.”

Jewell spoke to the official on the pitch at the whistle and revealed what he had said: “Make sure you get your story straight when I come and see you because I know what will happen.

“Referees have got a very difficult job. I have bad days, players have bad days but when they make a decision, not even an instant decision, they’ve had time to think about it and confer, how they get to a penalty from where they are and what they’ve given at first, is beyond me.

“If they had scored a great goal, you take your hat off to them, but we feel a little robbed today because I felt for long periods we were the better team.”

The Town manager said he hadn’t decided whether to talk further about the decision with the referee: “I don’t know what good it will do really. They’ve got difficult jobs to do. He looks a young lad, I don’t know what his history is.

“I think he’s got it wrong and I don’t even see how he’s got it wrong. If someone gets a penalty because someone takes a dive, I can see that, even if he’s got it wrong. I can’t see where that decision’s come from.

“There was a mass of confusion for our goal, then again just before he gave the penalty there was an incident where we thought it was a goalkick and they thought it was a corner and it took an age to get to a decision. It was like Fred Karno’s.”

Jewell was pleased with his side up to the penalty: “Cardiff like to get the ball up to the big lad up front [Rudy Gestede] and we had to try and master that.

“I felt at times he won too many headers but when we got the ball down and passed it we looked a good outfit. We had to dig in in the last 15 minutes.

“The game had a bit of a bitty start, it wasn’t great. But once we got the goal, we grew in confidence, we passed the ball and started to get the full-backs forward. They changed their shape which is a compliment to us again, but I’m sat here a little bit irked that we haven’t got three points.”

The Blues boss says his side suffered no injuries: “One or two are tired, Michael Chopra and Jason Scotland both tired but other than that no, and we kick on again in the morning.”

Cardiff manager Malky Mackay perhaps unsurprisingly saw the penalty differently, although he felt a draw was probably fair: “I think that overall we’re probably both looking at it saying we’re disappointed not to win but probably in the face of it all it looks like a point was probably the right result considering the ebb and flow of the game with both teams dominant at certain periods of the game.

“What’s happened [on the penalty] is Robert Earnshaw’s kept it in and it’s flicked off the outstretched hand of Carlos Edwards. The ball was going to Rudy Gestede and it’s changed direction.

“It certainly wasn’t his hand down by his side, his hand was up in the air when it changed direction. I thought it was a penalty.”

Nevertheless, he agreed that referee Whitestone and his assistants weren’t particularly clear in their intentions during several of the game’s major incidents: “There was probably a lack of clarity from the officials in terms of how they came to the decision, a bit like their second goal when there was a lack of clarity about why the linesman put his flag up rather than running to the halfway line.

“In the end, both decisions were correct, theirs was a goal and ours was a penalty. I also felt that five minutes after our penalty we should have had a penalty when Kevin McNaughton was bundled down in the box.

“Had there not been the decision-making process five minutes beforehand and the amount of players surrounding them, a decision would have been taken.”

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eaii added 09:05 - Oct 16 Good result but cant help feeling a little deflated about yet again poor officials on the pitch. We look a lot better than we have for quiet a while, even though we beat the hammers I still feel Leceister and West Ham for the top two but we are dead certs for play offs at this rate.
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corshamblue added 10:20 - Oct 16 ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh still a decent result I guess. Would have taken that 6 games ago ?
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jas0999 added 11:47 - Oct 16 ThatMuhrenCross - noted. I have not seen the goals so can not comment, other than state what a couple of folk were saying on BBC Radio Suffolk. Bottom line is sometimes decisions go for you - some times they don't. 2-2- at Cardiff is a good result.
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bobble added 12:07 - Oct 16 the wallabies never showed up ...oops .... go the all blacks hammer the french revenge the sinking of the rainbow warrior by those atoll bombing froggies
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dubblue added 12:55 - Oct 16 alot of positives - unbeaten in 5, consistency in team slection both strikers scored! joint 5th looking good!!
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tolly1664 added 13:30 - Oct 16 Agree with dubblue! WE all have to get behind team and manager if we are gonna have our revenge on those budgies !!
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StowTractorBoy added 14:18 - Oct 16 This was a mixed bag from Ipswich as we were excellent for the final 20 minutes of the first half and the first twenty of the second and at times we played some superb football. Cardiffs goal was a disappointment as Leadbitter conceded a silly throw in from which they scored when Sonko was beaten too easily by Gestede. We did struggle with all their long throws and and their corners throughout and Stockdale was not always convincing. Edwards and Andrews worked well down the right hand side and were our main threat in the first half. Scotlands goal was a gem and he worked hard until he was substituted. Our second goal was only controversial in that instead of the linesman pointing his flag towards the centre circle to indicate a goal he held the flag straight over his head - most confusing. The Cardiff equaliser completely changed the momentum of the game and was a travesty of justice as the linesman definitely gave a corner and where a penalty came from I shall never know. From that point on we lost all shape and rhythm with Ellington and JET replacing Chopra and Scotland totally inept. Really concerned now that JET is a waste of money and the Cardiff fans obviously did not like the bloke as he got a dreadul reception when he came on. The final stages was just one way traffic towards our goal and Stockdale continually humped the ball foward only for it to come straight back. Why he does not use his full backs with short throw outs I shall never know as Cresswell was often available. Before the match would have taken a point but came away cheated and the Cardiff fans certainly did their job complaining with ferocity every non decision of the officials. It clearly did the trick but by then we should have sewn the match up as in a ten minute spell after the break we missed two excellent chances. Malky Mackay was his usual moaning and groaning self in the dug out but you can't argue with the stat that as a Manager he has never lost to Ipswich.

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Garv added 16:25 - Oct 16 He hasn't been a manager that long. Was JET playing UPFRONT with Ellington or on the wing of a five man midfield? Because he cannot play wide, up top is a different story.
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CharlieITFC added 18:54 - Oct 16 Admittedly 6 games ago, if you had offered me a point away at Cardiff, i wouldve taken it. But the way we have been playing, and the fact that their penalty was a shambles i cant help but feel we should sitting in the top 6, instead of just joint 5th. I think we will take 6 points from the next 2, and then our next fixtures should see us carry that momentum on. With regard to Leadbitter. Yes, he made mistakes but the last few games, reporters have had nothing but praise for him. As much as i like the sound of JET/Carson in that role, you dont change a winning formula, and at the moment we are playing with confidence and dont look like losing. COYB

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s6blue added 20:35 - Oct 16 penalty decision a complete joke
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churchmans added 20:41 - Oct 16 STOWTRACTORBOY jesus!! i did not even attempt to read your comment or essay! phuk me keep it brief and whats ya point? jees
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TimmyH added 21:00 - Oct 16 Have to agree with s6blue, the penalty not awarded than awarded (by the linesman it seems and the pressure of their supporters and that dwarf Earnshaw) led to it being given - not in a million years was that a penalty a ball smashed at Edwards from 5 feet way and his arms were not even out. If that happened in the Premiership and on live TV then the officiating would defo come into questioning! ok some go for you and some against you over the whole season but that decision was scandolous.

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Warkys_Tash added 21:39 - Oct 16 Does the referee know what the term 'ball to hand' means?? What a Clown. Decisions like that have cost us the win, but no thanks to him we have still got a decent point away. Well played lads, top marks PJ. And as I said Leadbitter coming good again. We now have that winning mentality thats means we are able to come from behind and get results. Lets continue the unbeaten run and sweep aside Portsmouth on Tuesday and silence that Silly Fan, with the even sillier hat, who disrespectfully climbed on the roof of the Cobbold exec boxes a few seasons ago. If he does it again, I want to see the stewards grow a pair and launch him OUT!! COYB!!

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Bluewelshman added 22:01 - Oct 16 Two f***ing ref decisions ruined a perfectly good saturday for me. First the Irish ref (who was born in France with a French father) in the Wales v France game sending off Warburton for a tackle that was a yellow card at best, then secondly the idiot official who was so undecided in towns game that he gives a penalty on a hunch not 100% on his decision which I thought they had to be for the integretiy of the game. Oh well im hoping for a better weekend next week, come on you blues.

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bobble added 23:31 - Oct 16 c,moon all the players know if you spear tackle you get sent off.it was warbaton who ruined the semi final not the ref.get things straight
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ericgates added 06:00 - Oct 17 Great point lads. We need to get 6 points from Portsmouth and Palace, but I feel uneasy about the Palace game, I can just see them sneeking it against us, so I'd take 4 points and extending our unbeaten run to 7 games. This should move us into the playoff positions. In one of these games, I'd try Colin Healy at the base of the midfield diamond, and move Bullard into Leadbitters advanced role. Also, please lets not boo David Norris tommorow. He was a good servant aand captain for our club. He may not have been worth 2million, but his price tag is not his fault, neither is looking or a bit of security for your family. I for one will give him the applause he deserves.

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WeWereZombies added 07:41 - Oct 17 Fred Karno, was a theatre impresario of the British music hall. Karno is credited with inventing the custard-pie-in-the-face gag. Karno died in 1941 from diabetes, aged 75. Paul Jewell was born in 1964, casts a long shadow, that Fred Karno, doesn't he?
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tractorboy11uk added 11:49 - Oct 17 Warkys tash, please don't berate the stewards on here, it's nothing to do with ' growing a pair ' as you put it. Our friend with the hat could not be removed from the executive box roof because if a struggle had taken place and he had rolled off the roof onto the spectators in block S there would have been massive implications. that's why they held back. He was however, eventually ejected, arrested and banned from PR as a result of his actions. Sorry to go all Health and Safety on you but sometimes you have to think of the wider picture. I'm sure no one would want that lump falling on their head from a height !

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Warkys_Tash added 13:12 - Oct 17 @Tractorboy11uk With all due respects matey, I was a steward @ITFC for 4 yrs - 2 in the lower North & I was there that day & I watched from the Lower North - incidentally the hardest stand to steward in & I have taken alot of needless stick from people in there for jst doing a job that the league ask ys to do. Much harder than the away section. So please don't lecture me. Where do you/ did you steward in??

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Bluroo added 14:36 - Oct 17 You can't win them all. We've now played most of the teams below us but are still to play a bunch of them at the other end. Our next 6 fixtures offer a great chance to collect a lot of points and built that unbeaten run. We could be sitting in a pretty position come Xmas at this rate.
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tractorboy11uk added 16:23 - Oct 17 Warkys tash, it wasn't a lecture, it's a statement of the facts. If you were a steward then you should be well aware of the procedure. And just to let you know I was considerably closer to the man in question than you was ! No doubt you will have a chat to him tomorrow night about his conduct I assume ?
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Bergholtblue added 18:55 - Oct 17 Having watched it again on The Football league show, Edwards did not have have his arms by his sides as some have suggested but they were stretched out appealing for the goal kick. The ball hit his outstetched hand and was therefore a penalty. The controversy is whether the linesman had flagegd the ball out of play before the ref saw the hand ball decision. If however, Edwards had played to the whistle and hoofed the ball and the Alien into row Z (albeit at the risk of giving away a corner) we would not be having this debate.

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Warkys_Tash added 21:29 - Oct 17 @ tractorboy11uk If you were closer than me, why didn't you stop him going on the roof then? He went on there on his own. Tomorrow night is your chance to redeem yourself. I'll give you a thumbs up from from my seat
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