It's a penalty says Scott Parker

Head coach Scott Parker felt that his side should have had a penalty in the goalless draw with Preston North End at Deepdale.

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00:00Should you add a penalty right at the end there?

00:02Yeah, it's a penalty for me and I don't think I'm...

00:05I'm being biased in my understanding of it that

00:11Marcus Edwards has touched the ball first

00:13and then he's touched it onto the player

00:15who's slid on the ground onto that player.

00:18So the ref has said to me that the defender got the ball.

00:21He didn't get the ball.

00:22The tackle is...

00:24If the defender's running with the ball and I want to tackle him

00:27I have to get contact with the ball first.

00:29If I touch the ball first, then I get that's a good tackle.

00:33In this case, Marcus has touched it

00:36and he's hit the other player and then wiped him out.

00:39Penalty. That's how I just see it.

00:42What do you say to the ref?

00:43Did you get booked? I saw quite a few bookings come out.

00:45I got booked for my reaction after the penalty

00:49and maybe my emotion there just went boiled over.

00:53I mean, I'm not sure it was a booking,

00:56but it was probably the way the game was going at that moment.

00:58He decided to book me.

00:59Are you getting in trouble?

01:00Do you think the referee's struggled to control the game today a little bit?

01:03A little bit.

01:05I thought the game...

01:06It was a tough game and a tough game to officiate.

01:10I get that. A lot of incidents went on.

01:12We've just gone through a couple of them

01:14and I thought the game at certain moments did turn a little bit like that.

01:17It turned a bit ugly.

01:18So I get that it may have been difficult at times.

01:21But overall, it wasn't worse.