Hasselbaink slates referee after QPR defeat
Livid boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink launched a scathing attack on referee Darren Bond after QPR’s 3-2 defeat at Barnsley.
Rangers led 2-1 after penalties from Tjaronn Chery and Sebastian Polter, before Conor Hourihane levelled with a free-kick and Josh Scowen scored a last-minute winner for the Yorkshire side.
Hasselbaink was furious with the decision to award the free-kick which led to the equaliser.
And the raging Dutchman argued that the challenge by Massimo Luongo on Hourihane was no different to one by Stefan Payne on R’s defender Grant Hall in the build up to the winning goal.
Payne set up Scowen after nudging aside Hall, who was sent off for a second bookable offence for a subsequent challenge on Payne in injury time.
Hasselbaink said: “If the referee is going to give those kind of soft free-kicks he hasn’t given the whole game, then I think that is very painful.
“It was never a free-kick. He hadn’t given any free-kicks for little pushes like that in the whole game.
“And then – and then – with their third goal, what is the difference with the second goal?
“The player is in the air, he’s going to head it and he gets a nudge; what’s the difference? I don’t understand that.”
QPR players angrily protested after their 100% record this season came to an end – but Hasselbaink suggested they had every right to.
He also suggested that Lancashire-based official Bond lost control of the match and was “on a mission” by the time he dismissed Hall in the final seconds.
‘Not acceptable’
Hasselbaink said: “Referees need to make decisions. It was like the wild, Wild West out there. It was like people could do what they wanted. There was no authority.
“We are hammering players not to surround the referees. Well it’s because of referees like this – that’s why it happens.
“It’s an emotional game and you cannot have those kind of decisions made and be thinking that players are just going to stand and take that. It’s not acceptable.
“We move on. It’s just a pity that we had to lose in this manner.”
18/08/2016 @ 11:12 am
We have to accept that, at times, we will get beaten and need to learn to absorb what refs give against us. There will be times this season that refs give calls for us where we did not warrant them .I think after winning the first two games, peple get carried away and feel another season as with Sir Warnocks team in 2010. This will hopefully put things into perspective for some fans, that we are going to be beaten a few more times thi season. Lets stay postive and behind the team and manager.
18/08/2016 @ 8:32 am
2 pens and a sending off,suggests the ref had NO control of the game.If the tackle on Ngbakoto for the second pen was not deemed dangerous play then the game really has gone!!!.
18/08/2016 @ 6:04 am
get over it . showed no passion throughout 90 minutes . disgrace.
17/08/2016 @ 11:21 pm
Sour grapes Jimmy you were outplayed all night just 2 shots on target all night,both penalties