Peterborough United boss blasts referee for a ‘disgraceful decision’ that settled the game at Sunderland

Oldham awarded the home side a penalty 10 minutes from time for an alleged foul by Posh midfielder Jack Taylor on Denver Hume.

Ferguson felt Taylor was actually fouled by Hume.

“It was a very tight game as expected, but the referee changed it by making a disgraceful decision,” Ferguson said. “It was an unbelievably bad decision. It was a foul on Jack. The players are fuming and so am I. It was an appalling decision.

“It’s a disappointing result as I was happy with our performance level, but we had to score in the opening third of the game when we gave them all sorts of problems.

“Jonson Clarke-Harris should have scored early on and if he does they would have had to come at us and we would have had space to exploit.

“When you’re on top in these games you have to score and we didn’t. The front two looked very good at the start of the match.

“They didn’t cause us many problems though, They had a lot of corners, but we dealt with them well. We started the second half slowly, but our shape was good and we came through it. If anything we looked the stronger side when they scored.

“I can only remember one save Christy Pym had to make. They didn’t open us up.”

Posh are stuck in the bottom half of the table after picking up three points in their opening three matches.

Posh are next in action against Swindon at the Weston Homes Stadium next Saturday (October 3).