Cardiff Furious At Lack Of Penalties

Cardiff City boss, Dave Jones, was left fuming last night, following his side's 3-1 Carling Cup victory over Dagenham & Redbridge, in which the Welsh team were only awarded one penalty.

Speaking after the game, Jones said, "It's a joke. We played 90 minutes of cup football tonight and had to play the last 64 minutes of the game without being given a single spot kick."

Jones was already incandescent with rage prior to the Carling Cup fixture, having had to wait 93 minutes of the opening game of the season before Cardiff were awarded a penalty. Jones said, "It's ridiculous. We were already three up by then, so a penalty's little or no use to us at that stage. If refs want to show they don't have an anti-Welsh bias, they really need to be handing us the advantage much earlier in games."

Asked if he would be appealing to the Welsh FA, Jones continued, "I think we'll have to. We only got 19 penalties last season in a total of 52 matches, which meant we had to try and score goals from open play in over 30 matches. It's a joke, to be honest."

It's hoped the Welsh FA will look favourably on the Welsh club's plight, just like they always fucking do whenever a Cardiff player gets sent off, and Jones had this to say about the Welsh football authority, "The Welsh FA has done us favours in the past, such as overturning red cards for Ross McCormack so he's available to us for important games, but we feel they need to do more."

"It's obvious we're getting picked on by English refs, so we're asking for Welsh referees to officiate all our games in future. We're also advocating the award of 3 goals if our penalties go over the bar and five goals if one of our players carries the ball over the goal line."

The Welsh FA wouldn't be drawn on the issue last night, but it's strongly expected that they'll continue to protect their own club by making favourable decisions about a team that doesn't even compete in their leagues, because they can.