Paul Taylor is no stranger to the limelight. He once survived an inquiry into alleged inappropriate comments made to former Posh striker Sean Farrell, but the language aimed at him after the award of a game-saving 90th minute penalty to Wycombe would have made a builder blush.

Posh manager Darren Ferguson led the protests which were added to enthusiastically by the boisterous travelling support and continued graphically by the visiting players. The gist led one to suspect that Taylor was so biased it was a surprise he didn't keep falling over.

From long range his decision to penalise Posh substitute Josh Low for a push on Scott McGleish looked a sound one, but those closer to the action, well visitors anyway, were outraged. McGleish kept his head amid the mayhem to score easily.

Posh, with some justification, could point to numerous appeals of their own which were waved away. Most notably a shot by Dean Keates at the start of the second half which was brilliantly blocked by the hands of Leon Johnson, who unfortunately is not the Wycombe keeper.

Mind you three points would have flattered Posh who spent the first 45 minutes in a level of confusion only matched recently by visitors to Terminal 5.

Wycombe started brightly, saw Sergio Torres scuff a presentable opportunity after 30 seconds, took the lead with a stunning free-kick in the fifth minute from Stefan Oakes, and generally looked threatening whenever they delivered the ball into the Posh area as keeper Joe Lewis flapped at crosses in a most unconvincing fashion.

Clear chances were rare, but Posh were rushed in possession and failed to bring a single save from young Wycombe keeper Frank Fielding. Aaron Mclean's 45th minute header from a Chris Whelpdale corner was the sum total of their attacking efforts in the first-half.

"We were nowhere near good enough," admitted Ferguson. "My only consolation was that we couldn't possibly be that bad after the break."

He wasn't wrong. After a tense first-half full of errors, the action bristled with excitement after the interval as Posh quickened the tempo and started to bother a defence that had cruised through the first 45 minutes.

Mclean should have levelled just past the hour after Jamie Day's brilliant burst down the left-wing. The division's top scorer also blazed badly over the bar, while Keates skied a shot into the stands when well placed.

Wycombe also found time to break out with substitute Delroy Facey heading across goal when he had a clear opportunity to convert a deep cross, but two substitutions by Ferguson proved master-strokes.

Liam Hatch replaced the ineffective Scott Rendell and Micah Hyde was sent on for Whelpdale.

Posh switched to their diamond formation and immediately George Boyd found extra space in which to torment his opposition.

Hyde, who delivered a high-class 25 minute cameo, and Hatch set up Boyd's well-struck 66th minute equaliser from the corner of the penalty area, the ball careering into the net off Johnson's heel before Hatch powered home a headed goal from a Keates' cross six minutes from time, apparently to set up another Posh win and end a shocking run of results on this ground.

Instead a suspicious fall from a Posh old boy which persuaded Taylor to act earned Wycombe a point they thoroughly deserved.

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