Darren O’Dea was the Leeds United hero with an injury time plus winner at Peterborough that left Darren Ferguson fuming.
The on-loan Celtic defender found the net in the sixth minute of additional time- after the fourth official had indicated that there would be four extra minutes- just moments after escaping a red card.
Peterbrough were hanging on for a point after levelling the scores at 2-2 with an 88th minute goal from Mark Little when the game really sparked into life.
O’Dea was yellow carded for a ‘last man’ challenge on David Ball during injury time then rubbed salt in the home side’s wounds by scoring a last gasp goal that lifted the Yorkshire side into a play-off position.
Straight after the final whistle ‘Boro chairman Darren MacAnthony, who was recently fined by the Football Association tweeted: “I want my fine money back from FA. Game ruined again by total incompetence. Fix the problem instead of dishing out fines. DO YOUR JOB.”
Showing the same diplomacy as his dad, whose time keeping skills are legendary, Ferguson added: “I’m stood by the linesman, he (the fourth official) puts four minutes up, and then he adds two more minutes on and I can hear him say: ‘That’s time up’, but there’s another two minutes added on.
“It’s all about them, you can’t go near officials, you can’t talk to them for 30 minutes. It’s all about them.
“Four minutes of injury time and they score in 96 minutes. But don’t forget it’s Leeds United, so it’ll be okay.”
Asked about O’Dea’s booking he added: “I don’t want to talk about Leeds United players being sent off.”
Elsewhere in The Championship Daryl Murphy and Josh Thompson didn’t feature for Ipswich or Peterbrough while Jos Hooiveld helped Southampton stay on top with a 1-1 win at Reading.
In League One Niall McGinn was substituted with ten minutes left in Brentford’s 1-1 draw at Notts County.
Richie Towell helped Hibs to a 3-2 win at St Mirren (with Paul McGowan netting twice) but will sit out the next two match against Celtic while Greig Spence endured the long road back from Dingwall after Hamilton Accies lost 1-0 away to the Division One leaders.
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