Accrington manager John Coleman hit out at the “circus” whenever his team faces big clubs in League One following their 3-0 defeat to the Blues at Portman Road, believing his side don't get a “fair crack of the whip” from officials.

Coleman was deeply unhappy with his keeper Lukas Jensen’s late red card, shown by referee Lee Swabey after the Dane upended Harry Clarke with the Town sub breaking through on goal. Kyle Edwards scored the resultant free-kick.

“We’re devastated with the sending off. It’s not a sending off, is it? They must have changed the rules and I haven’t been told,” Coleman said.

“A DOGSO is denying of a goalscoring opportunity, so if he hadn’t have fouled him, if he doesn’t foul him, does that ball not go by the corner flag? He’s got absolutely no chance of scoring.

“It just doesn’t make sense. Now the referee’s telling me it’s where the foul took place. It’s a load of nonsense, it’s [not] denying a goalscoring opportunity if he can’t score a goal.

“If our keeper hadn’t have touched him, it wouldn’t have got sucked back to him. It just doesn’t make any kind of sense whatsoever.

“You’re looking for empathy from the officials. There was none tonight. Twenty minutes in, 10 minutes in, OK, we’ve come, we’re blighted with injuries and suspensions, whatever can go against us.

“So we’re taking our time on throw-ins, the crowd are roaring, he’s hurrying us up. Twenty minutes to go and they’re wasting time at 2-0, he’s doesn’t open his mouth.

“Is that because you haven’t got 22,000 fans shouting at you? You’ve got to be consistent for both teams and today we didn’t get a fair crack of the whip. Full stop.

“It’s going to be hard to come here and win with the quality that Ipswich have got. We gave it our very best shot.

“We’re loads of players down, we found out that Sean McConville was suspended today at half-12 [for abusive and insulting language to a match official following the recent Papa Johns Trophy semi-final tie against Bolton Wanderers]. That’s how fair we get treated.

“So it’s going to be hard. I’m not saying the referee determined the game because they were better than us tonight, and they should be.

“Over the last three of four years, they’ve got three of our better players [Kayden Jackson, Janoi Donacien and Cameron Burgess], so they should be.

“But give us a chance. It’s a circus. It’s a circus when we go to a big club because what we do, we get punished for, what they do, they don’t.

“And when Kayden Jackson pulls me at the end of the game and says ‘That wouldn’t even be a yellow for us at Portman Road’, that tells you everything you need to know.”

Regarding his team’s performance, he added: “We passed it a little bit better tonight. Disappointed with the goals because we worked on that one, them getting in on the right-hand channel.

“It’s normally Wes Burns, but we know Kayden’s got the pace. So we’re disappointed that he got in and then he scored.

“And they’ve scored similar goals to that in the last three or four weeks, they must have scored four or five those goals.

“We were thinking we’d keep it to arm’s length for an hour and then throw the two forwards on and try and go and win the game.

“And then we conceded what we think is a very poor goal. He’s run Baba [Fernandes] down the line, possibly hasn’t gone across to close down quick enough. Shot hits the bar, we go to sleep and Kayden finishes.

“But we’ve given a spirited account of ourselves, and that’s all we can do when we come away from home.”

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blues1 added 12:34 - Mar 8 Anyone evo doesnt think that was a red card clearly doesn't know the rules. Daft is, had he not been brought down he'd have had an obvious goalscoring chance. How Coleman thinks he was going towards the corner flag I really dont know. Was heading directly into the penalty area. And with the keeper out of his goal has to be deemed a goalscoring opportunity. Coleman moans about referees constantly. Doesn't mention the fact they got a free kick every time they threw themselves to the floor, while we only got around 4 free kicks in the whole game, does he? Or the fact they were timewasting from the 1st whistle, until they went 2 behind. But then, he wouldnt, would he?

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raycrawfordswig added 12:36 - Mar 8 Got to laugh Stanley Goalkeeper time wasting after 5 mins.
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Umros added 13:00 - Mar 8 There is only one Clown though and you are showing yourself ! Just because your timewasting (from first throw in 20 seconds in) didn't work out don't pin it on us ! I was looking forward to his comic comments and he hasn't disappointed ! If your that ‘devastated' by the red you could appeal like we did for Morsey last year…..personally I thought your goalkeeper was an ‘animal' 😂😎

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mistert added 13:30 - Mar 8 control.Surely Clarke's heavy touch was caused by him trying to avoid the keeper who was about to wipe him out . If the keeper doesn't do that then Clarke keeps it under
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 13:31 - Mar 8 Boring, pathetic, biased comments won't change the result. Accept your defeat and move on.
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 13:36 - Mar 8 Just heard all the L1 refs are having a meeting next week. The agenda is to discuss how they can ensure Accrington do not get "a fair crack of the whip."
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Nobbysnuts added 13:54 - Mar 8 Sour grapes spoken by a true halfwit....
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churchmans added 14:52 - Mar 8 He is 100% correct! The referees in this division are not the best!
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TheMover added 15:20 - Mar 8 I am sure that their muppet chairman will be having a word with the FA about the way the referee raised his hand to their keeper
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atty added 15:53 - Mar 8 What is it about Ipswich that cause their Chairman and /or Manager to spout rubbish every time they play us? Weird.
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atty added 15:58 - Mar 8 PS If Jackson said that then KMc should have a string word with him.
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Bazza8564 added 16:13 - Mar 8 Well I'm gonna buck the trend and say I thought the ref was OK last night, he didn't give much early on but some of the moaning about fould by Jackson around me was pathetic, wed have screamed for them the other way around. Ive only seen the sending off live, but initial instinct was it should have been yellow, the game was gone I thought Clarke had overrun it but I might change my mind if I watch it again. But if you cast you mind back last season when the ASFC Chairman tweeted that "Morsy is a sh*thouse" that directly led to a 4 game ban, maybe Karma is at work here and they should learn to live with it

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paris_mitchell_in_oz added 16:50 - Mar 8 Wah, wah, WAHHHHH!!!!
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armchaircritic59 added 17:54 - Mar 8 Shame about the rant, I've always had time for Coleman, he's done a minor miracle at A.S. Sour grapes turning into whine.
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TimmyH added 18:47 - Mar 8 Got sent off at the end of the game which didn't effect the outcome at all...the only circus element in this is Coleman the clown.
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Fat_Boy_Tim added 19:12 - Mar 8 I think you can't separate the actions of the keeper flying out with the touch on the ball. If he wasn't about to be clattered he would have taken a different touch. It's the similar to a two footed flying tackle to win the ball. Even if you don't make contact and the player jumps over it, the intent is the same and you get sent off.
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Kropotkin123 added 20:49 - Mar 8 There's a circus in the Town, in the Town. Accrington Stanley going down, going down. And John-n Coleman, well he's a delusional clown. Accrington Stanley going down, going down.
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bobble added 06:39 - Mar 9 and to think we only had to pay the ref 300 quid.......
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ChrisFelix added 10:20 - Mar 9 It was a difficult call, especially so late in the game. But rules are rules . Inconsistent officials who allowed blatant time wasting & also throw ins to be moved several feet along the touchline. I was told that our best referee this season was the lady at MK
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Facefacts added 21:03 - Mar 12 Accrington Stanley are where they are in the football pyramid because of the force of Coleman's personality. Without him they'd be non-league. He is worth quite a few points to them every season. When he moans about this game it is really an overhang from losing cheat-in-general McConville at lunchtime on the day of the game due to a ban. And then to lose a keeper to suspension, I don't know if it was their best or only keeper, and they'll maybe have to put a kid in for the next game. He would have been absolutely seething at full time. I can't stand him, but in a way you have to respect his doggedness. Every trick in the book, and if he gets players banned, he thinks up new ways to cheat on the way home on the bus. Truly Machiavellian.

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