Cardiff manager Neil Warnock had no complaints regarding Sol Bamba’s second-half red card for his outburst towards fourth official Charles Breakspear, although felt referee James Adcock could have prevented the incident from taking place.
"When you look at the DVD Douglas is very clever — he’s left his studs on his ankle and the referee’s not seen it, obviously,” Warnock said.
"An experienced ref blows up there because Bamba’s down and it stops all the hassle.
"Instead he plays on, tries to give an advantage, which we didn’t want, on the halfway line, and the it all erupts.
"I’ve just said to him, if you blow up early there it stops all that. Now we’ve got a man sent off, we’ve got one of my best players missing for three games, it’s been like Dunkirk for the last 20 minutes and you could have just stopped it.’
Who's next?! 😡 Sol Bamba takes on the officials and his own manager as he loses his head and earns himself a red card. pic.twitter.com/nd8oY1YAeo
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"It doesn’t condone Sol’s behaviour, that’s a red card, I’ve no complaints about that.
"But it’s disappointing because I thought we did ever so well and at the end I thought we tried to win the game. We had some good chances late on, three or four.”
Warnock tried to stop Bamba in his tracks as he approached the touchline: "I couldn’t get on his back, I couldn’t lift myself high enough to get on his back, I should have jumped on his back! I could see what was coming.
He added: "I think Douglas was clever. Douglas was smirking when he came out today and I’m sure when you see it in slow motion he leaves his studs in and he’s ended up getting [us down to] 10 men
"But because of that I think we had a great chance of winning it because it revitalised us.
"I think they [Ipswich] knew it was a little bit unjust. I couldn’t understand the consistencies.
"The other incident, Junior Hoilett going down the left side of the box, when you see the centre-half’s arm go out and pole-axe him and he doesn’t give a freekick, he doesn’t give a booking.”
Warnock says he will speak with Bamba tomorrow: "I didn’t really want to talk to Sol after the game so I will see him tomorrow. He just lost his rag but it was an aggressive attitude and I don’t condone Sol’s behaviour.
"He is distraught in the dressing room and quite rightly. For me, he is one of the best in the Championship and that was a blemish I haven’t seen in his make-up.”