Town have confirmed they are appealing against the red card shown to Andre Dozzell at Sunderland last night.

The 21-year-old, who faces a three-match ban, was dismissed by referee Peter Wright for a challenge on ex-Blues skipper Grant Leadbitter in the 72nd minute.

Town have until Thursday to provide written and video evidence to support their appeal with a disciplinary panel set to make their decision on Friday.

“The club have to appeal,” manager Paul Lambert told the official site. “It wasn’t a sending off. The foul is on Andre himself first. Hopefully common sense will see the red card rescinded.”

Sunderland boss Phil Parkinson took a different view to his Town counterpart.

“At the time I thought it was a bit soft, but when you watch it back, he has rolled his foot over the ball and caught Grant,” he told the Sunderland Echo.

“If that's the Premier League, I think VAR gives a red card. He has caught Grant, who isn't going to go down unless he's caught.

“I said it was harsh at the time, but I think he has rolled his foot over the ball."

Similarly the former Colchester manager felt Town could have no complaints regarding the penalty, scored by Leadbitter, which won the game, Mark McGuinness having kicked it against his own arm.

“The penalty, I don't think there can be arguments," he insisted. "It hits him on the arm, a clear penalty.”

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Saxonblue74 added 17:17 - Nov 4 Phil Parkinson, not wearing red and white striped specs by any chance? Red should undoubtedly be rescinded and some form of action toward the ref for that appalling penalty decision........but there won't be!
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Sharkey added 17:33 - Nov 4 Is this TWTD's first official headline where 'appeal' has been used, rather than 'appeal against'? Poor little useless prepositions, consigned to history with barely a whimper.
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Pilgrimblue added 17:47 - Nov 4 I've tried to look at it more closely but with just one angle it's difficult so not sure if there are any more views! However Dozzell was on the ground when he appear to come into contact with that cheating b____. For me its no way but so often the panel are biased to the ref !
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Icantbelieveyousaidt added 17:55 - Nov 4 Pilgrimblue, Leadbitter is not a cheat - you are taking advantage of your obvious bias. We are all biased but using language like that is cowardice in itself; you wouldn't say that to his face, believe me. The question is whether it was a red card. For me, I had one angle on Ifollow watching live and I have not a clue. On Andre's side is the fact that he might have been 'pushed' beforehand.

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WhoisJimmyJuan added 18:10 - Nov 4 I cantbelieveyousaidit: what a load of sanctimonious politically correct bowlox. This is a fans forum not not Twonkfield High School Poetry class.
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therein61 added 18:30 - Nov 4 And so we should i'm looking at the Sunderland player in the piccie who appears to be looking on in disbelief at a fellow pro being hard done by, but then perhaps he's not.
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Suffolkboy added 18:43 - Nov 4 Check out this Ref's previous record , and ask whether he'd been told he needed to demonstrate he had a Red Card in his pocket ,having probably been “ over generous “ this season to date ! Jus asking ! COYB
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Europablue added 18:58 - Nov 4 Penalties for non-goal scoring opportunities have always been pretty stupid. If there is no goal-scoring opportunity it should be an indirect freekick, then you can give all the soft indirect freekicks you like.
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Icantbelieveyousaidt added 19:03 - Nov 4 WhoisJimmyJuan - If you want to belong to a fans forum where a consummate professional is called a cheating b..... that is fine. Oh and I trust when a town player does the same thing then he of course is genuinely injured. Finally I do love poetry, how did you guess - There once was a man called Juan....
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norfolkbluey added 19:42 - Nov 4 Lambo's opinion is spot on. Referees at this level are at best inconsistent. Clubs competing at this level deserve consistency and this referee was just not good enough. You see this kind of dithering by a referee who is allowing play to go on too long and the player who is initially fouled sometimes more than once gets frustrated or even hurt and reacts uncharacteristically. A RED CARD ridiculous! Leadbitter was a tough little player for us but I bet he was embarrassed by the resultant decision. The ref cannot be up to date with his second decision of handball against McGuiness. He wasn't even looking in the direction of the ball. It has cost us three points which could be critical towards May. Feel sorry for PL and the team et al but it would be good to thrash them when they play at Portman Road and we are clear at the top by a country mile. COYB

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Saxonblue74 added 20:04 - Nov 4 Europablue, last thing we need is another "grey area" in the game.
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herfie added 20:55 - Nov 4 I think AD commits too many fouls during games - his yellow card count confirms. It was inevitable that, at some point, an inconsistent ref would produce a red. In this case, however, an appeal is fully justified - sadly, if successful, it won't change the loss of points, but Will keep AD available to play. But all players need to think about avoiding unnecessary/niggly fouls, which give inept refs at this level the opportunity to reach for cards.

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herfie added 20:55 - Nov 4 I think AD commits too many fouls during games - his yellow card count confirms. It was inevitable that, at some point, an inconsistent ref would produce a red. In this case, however, an appeal is fully justified - sadly, if successful, it won't change the loss of points, but Will keep AD available to play. But all players need to think about avoiding unnecessary/niggly fouls, which give inept refs at this level the opportunity to reach for cards.

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herfie added 20:57 - Nov 4 OOOps - apologies for double post. Yellow card offence!😉
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Europablue added 22:28 - Nov 4 herfie Would be a straight red
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DifferentGravy added 22:37 - Nov 4 Eff off Parkinson....lets see what youre saying when the boots on the other foot Be surprised if rescinded. Not clear enough to dispute
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bobble added 06:17 - Nov 5 i always thought handball had to be intentional to be a penalty in the box...
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BlueRaider added 08:13 - Nov 5 I don't understand managers who behave like Parkinson in this instance, why not just say it was a ridiculous penalty, it's not going to be taken away from him ! Steve Bruce went up in my estimation enormously after the crazy one they got at Spurs
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minesapint added 10:23 - Nov 5 Sharkey is right. The omission of prepositions impoverishes the language. We need to distinguish between appealing AGAINST an injustice and appealing TO someone's better nature. We have the same problem with protest used without the preposition against. If you PROtest you obviously speak/testify for or in favour of something, unless you reverse the meaning by adding the preposition against. Without a preposition you protest your innocence. Call me a pedantic old beggar if you will, but an omitted preposition is the sort of thing a smart lawyer will leap upon.

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Linkboy13 added 10:42 - Nov 5 I think Lambert loves these controversial decisions when we lose. It means everyone s attention is distracted away from the fact that it was another pretty inept performance where we created very little, and still haven't beaten one of the top teams.
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AlfBuksh added 11:11 - Nov 5 I think you could argue both for and against the penalty so fear that it will be upheld. We can't keep blaming the referees for the result, its such a lazy thing to do. What about more clinical passing, finishing, more shots on target? Lets assume in nearly every game there will be decisions that go against us - we need to be stronger and rise above it. One of the things I loved about the great Sir Bobby was that he was usually so magnanimous in defeat and just got on with it. You could argue that both the penalty and sending off were in the rules so lets move on. The week before we were outplayed by Crewe and we managed to win so its all square!

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dusth added 11:14 - Nov 5 As a member of Twonkfield High School poetry class I resent the assumption that we are A) sanctimonious or B) would ever allow icantbelieveyousaidit to become a member or indeed anyone who writes a low form of verse such as the limerick. I refer you all to my poem "The Referee's a Bast**rd" and my sonnet "Blue til I Die/Get some Effing Specs,Ref!"
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Wallingford_Boy added 11:24 - Nov 5 Stop moaning, we can't see anything from that one angle on i-follow. He does appear to raise his foot, so can't complain. Stupid boy.
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SamWhiteUK added 11:56 - Nov 5 Phil, a video of the incident on here would be brill! Think a trick has been missed there
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BettyBlue added 11:57 - Nov 5 What a waste of time. No chance with this. How about concentrating on Pompey and avoiding another defeat?
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