Blackpool boss Ian Evatt felt his side were denied a stonewall penalty during their 1-0 defeat at Luton.
With time running out and the Seasiders trailing to Jordan Clark’s 71st-minute goal, Niall Ennis appeared to be tripped in the box by Kasey Palmer, but referee Martin Woods did not agree, allowing play to continue with Lee Evans putting the loose ball narrowly wide.
Discussing the incident afterwards, Evatt said: “I think everyone’s seen it, it’s a penalty.
“So many key match decisions from the first of January onwards have gone against us, we keep speaking to the PGMOL, doing the correct things, going down the correct avenues, we keep getting apologies, we keep getting the referees are wrong and you were correct, that should have happened, but that doesn’t help us and things have to start changing.
“The referee has put his whistle in his mouth and didn’t give it which I just don’t understand to be honest.
“He changed his mind from saying it was an advantage to it wasn’t a penalty and he was going to book Niall for simulation which I just find an astonishing answer, a crazy answer.
“I’m looking forward to hearing the reasoning behind that statement.”
It was Luton who had the better of things in the first half, Shayden Morris, Nahki Wells, Jordan Clark and Cohen Bramall having shots saved by Bailey Peacock-Farrell.
They remained on top after the break, Wells denied by the visiting stopper and Kodua slicing over from range, before Clark pounced on an error by Zac Ashworth to fire home via a slight deflection.
Although Blackpool upped the pressure afterwards, they still were not able to have a shot on target, Tom Bloxham putting their best opportunity wide.
Luton boss Jack Wilshere was happy his side ended their run of successive defeats, saying: “It’s not easy for the players that and we can talk and we did talk about how it wasn’t acceptable that we didn’t win that game (against Huddersfield), but we also need them to bounce back and put in a performance and that’s difficult.
“The key thing is today that we won. We needed resilience, we needed to find a way.
“I thought we actually played really well. I think we started the game, first 20 minutes, really well, really good.
“We had a lot of threat and they became a little bit more stubborn, and in the second half we found our rhythm again and probably had more threat.
“That was our message, keep putting them under pressure, keep attacking their box, keep making them defend and eventually we got the goal that I thought we deserved.”
