Baggies star Kevin Phillips tonight accused referee Howard Webb of ‘bottling’ a decision to disallow the goal scored by former Albion player Nwankwo Kanu.
Albion are convinced Milan Baros, Kanu’s strike partner, controlled the ball with the top of his arm in the build-up to the winner.
An angry Phillips said: “Referee’s do tend to bottle decisions like that in the big games. There is no doubt about it - Portsmouth were very lucky to win.
“I am gutted. We didn’t deserve to lose. Everybody who saw us play knows we are a good side. I don’t think they deserved to win.”
Kanu struck nine minutes into the second half to kill off Albion’s challenge and wreck hopes of marking the 40th anniversary of their 1968 cup victory with another trip to the final.
Baros had already been booked in the first half for two offences of deliberate hand ball in quick succession but Albion manager Tony Mowbray refused to blame the decision for his team’s defeat.
And the Baggies boss was full of praise for the efforts of his players, who had the better of the game until Kanu’s goal and rattled the Pompey crossbar late on through midfielder Robert Koren.
“I will have to look at the goal on TV tonight but I didn’t see a hand ball and I never reacted to it on the bench,’’ said an honest Mowbray.
“There were a few occasions where I thought Baros tried some cheeky hand balls and he actually got booked for it. But I won’t sit here complaining about a hand ball.
“Its a goal, it was given and I have no problems with it.
“Good luck to Portsmouth in the FA Cup final and I wish them well but they played against a Championship side who acquitted themselves very well on the day and made it very difficult for them.
“I am disappointed with the result but not with the way the team played.
“People who watch us every week know we can play like that. We play good football.
“The disappointment today was that for a team who score so many goals we didn’t threaten their goal enough.
“But it was important as we came out of the day with our belief and confidence intact and that we performed and didn’t get beaten comfortably.
“We’ve got six games left now and the message coming out of the dressing room is that we want to attack them and perform well week in, week out.
“This is a missed opportunity but on the balance of play and the balance of the chances there wasn’t a lot in the game.
“If Ishmael Miller had hit the target at the end or Robert Koren’s shot had gone under the bar rather than hitting it we could still have been playing extra time.
“It was a tight game but good luck to Portsmouth.”
And Mowbray backed his side to pick themselves up from today’s defeat and push on towards promotion.
They are back in action on Tuesday at Blackpool in the first of six huge Championship matches that will make or break their promotion campaign.
“We will be in training tomorrow and again on Monday morning and we will be at Blackpool on Tuesday night looking to get some points.”
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96 Comments
Pompy were rubbish…..and you still wern`t good enough to beat them……now we`ve got to put up with how unlucky you were, and how the ref robbed ya……WINNING NOWT THE MOWBRAY WAY IN SYTLE?
……COME ON YOU WOLVES
Justice has been done and maybe your luck is finally running out!HA HA HA HA HA HA!Cocking it up the Mowbray way!
1 of them things. Glad TM didn’t moan and groan about it. Refreshing. Proud of the lads, we have good times ahead..
A GOOD PERFORMANCE BY WBA DESERVED MORE OUT OF THE GAME, THERE WAS SURELY A HAND BALL BEFORE THE GOAL I WONDERED IF THE REF WAS SO QUICK THINKING THAT HE HAD ALREADY BOOKED THIS GUY FOR HANDBALL/ KICKING THE BALL AWAY EARLIER AND HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO GIVE HIM A RED.
JAMIE LANYON HOLIDAY PARK CORNWALL
great goal!!!!!!!!!!! cum on blackpool tuesday ow gud wud that be???? haha surely not????
as a fan who travelled to wembley despite the loss, this match shows what our mowbrays men are made of.
its difficult to say but after the loss but we can hold our heads high.
obviously we shown how we can perform, although conceding a tap-in goal pompey didn’t have any many oppurtunities to show their class.
great acheivement to get this far for us, and this can result in the push for promotion.
fair play to pompey to score an oppurtunity that shouldnt of been allowed and not deserved, but to be honest its the score and not the performance. :/
wolves fans who do come on here boasting about our loss, well thats pathetic at the end of the day. + fair play to those who do show loyality and see behond us as rivals.
come on baggies! we know what you’re made of.
Ah……..de dums………like Phillips has never done ANYTHING like that and got away with it.Tough!!!!!!!!!!
UP THE WOLVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why can west brom not accept they lost. bloody kevin phillips has to moan because he is now to old to go to wembley again…face it kev or super kev as u call him u are too old and wont be gud enuff nxt year !!!! up the wolves
aaahhh shame, your luck finally ran out. but lets face it guys, you do have more than your fair share of luck most of the time.
BUT IT WILL BE YOUR TURN TO WATCH US AT WEMBLEY IN MAY’S PLAY OFF FINAL, AND WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW IT’S DONE. WOLVES ARE UNBEATEN AT WEMBLEY TO DATE.
GOING TO THE PREMIER THE MCARTHY WAY..IN STYLE OF COURSE..OH YES.
Waa Waa Waa
Cry me a river Philips!
WE WUZ ROBBED boing boing
cudent believe it when i went to get a pint in wembley the barmaid said,hello you back agen boing boing
on the way out one of the stewards said to me see ya next year terry boing boing
Sounds like sour grapes to me,Kevin. Try and be a bit more gracious in defeat. Sandwell lost at Wembley again to a poor Portsmouth side.Live with it.
kanu so loyal to the boggies NOT,IF THAT WAS SUPER BOB I BET HE WOULD’VE MISSED,BECAUSE HE WAS BLUE AND WHITE ALL THE WAY,AND POMMPEY HAD 12 PLAYERS ON THE PITCH THE REF,SO YOUR DOING IT THE MOWBRAY WAY?.
trouble with mowbray heis enougher mcghee.he is a bad loser he never praises other teams up he always looks for excuses.
You did not deserve to lose and you were cheated but I find it amazing that with possesion in the first half you hardly troubled James. I thought once you got one you would probably get four..
I think you should have put Millar on earlier because if nothing else, he troubles defences and unsettles them.
I’m sorry you lost and more soryy you lost that way. Kanu was useless the whole game and yet he gets the winner.
So I wish you a very bad day at Molineux but I hope you stuff the rest and go up in the top two. Tough luck lads. You deserved better.
Although disappointing, strangely enough I’m not too depressed about it. Lets face it, the cup was a bonus and a double would have been special, but we were playing a top half premiership team and outpassed them for large parts of the game. We need to take that good football but be more penetrating to be successful in the top flight. We still have a great season to complete, 2 games in hand which if we win them will take us to the top of the table and clear. I believe this result will galvanise the Baggies into doing just that.
Terry, where r u ????????????????????????
Terry, where r u ???????????????????????
how can he say the ref bottled it.
only one albion player appealed at the time.
nobody else saw it.
Best Wishes to The Pompey netball team in the final!!(Baros did that 4 times as I counted)….Anyway a truely fantastic performance from the Albion in all but a result..We just mesmerised Pompey with our passing admittedly without creating the right type of goal chances the play merited. If Mowbrey’s “footballing” doctrine is allowed to flourish and the the very small adjustments are made next year then I can really see a new dawn of optimism sweeping around the Hawthorns…I’ve watched Albion teams ranging from Jimmy Hagan, Alan Ashman, John Giles, Big Ron & Ossie Ardilles and I’ve never witnessed such a range of quality through the team…Truely magnificent and on Saturday they were a great source of pride and a great credit to both West Bromwich Albion Football Club & the Black Country. Our time will come.
Same old Baros always cheating shouldn’t be in English football! Well done lads you gave it your best shot!
always an excuse ain’t there
well done baggies we are STILL doin it the mowbray way and end of the season will show us on top.
COME ON YOU BAGGIES, MY THROAT IS STILL KILLING ME FROM ALL THE SINGING,STILL A GREAT DAY OUT AND THE BLUE N WHITE ARMY DID US PROUD.
i see all the custard bowl muppets wasted no time in getting on our pages…cant wait for the 15th…cricket score anyone!
STILL DOIN IT THE MOWBRAY WAY!!!!!!
It’s ‘terryproudbaggie’eh.
How about this one for next season mate - ‘terrychampionshipbaggie’ - cos the way you lot are spiralling out of control ya wont even do the play-offs.
Nevertheless,ya can watch Tigers v Wolves in PlayOff Final.
20,000 Tangerine Shirts
60,000 Gold Shirts
Bring it on.
WINNING THE MADMICK WAY!!!!
stop moaning only one of your own defenders saw the handball at the time.
how did the ref bottle it.
accept the defeat if you have that much possession you should be at least testing David James you cant keep blaming referees.
Terry….Baggie you’ll have to tell us what your new name is ( mate, you’ve asked for this for weeks and you know it !! How about Terry Sackcloth and Ashes Baggie ? Maybe Terry Bedroom to Cry Baggie ? Nothing heavy meant mate but you have been driving people up the wall just recently !! Come back and have a chat !
i was right in line with baros when he turned with the ball and wasn’t aware there was an issue until i got home and saw the highlights. i was disappointed with rhe performance as although we had the majority of the play there was no cutting edge from the front four. Particuarly poor was morrison and Brunt neither of which put a cross in for bednar, phillips or miller. However me and my youngest had another fabulous day at wembley and have faith that TM will lead us on to bigger and better days.
You were the best team. You played most of the football. Portsmouth were poor. BUT you never had a shot on target.
Phillips aint a bad player but I wush his voice would break. He sounds like a 9 year old.
I would just like to say congratulations to the Albion for keeping the dream alive that a really small club can still get to the semi finals of the FA cup.
8 . Terry - yeah bet the barmaid couldn’t believe you were crying in your pint again . LOSER !!!!
Post 8. No I think you misheard. She actually said Hello here is that PR*T again.
sour grapes eh philips?!!! terryproudbaggy - not too proud of your spelling are you? Typical west brom
wheres happy baggie and baggie boy
I am not going to gloat. I think it was the most likely result, Pompey winning but you guys thinking that you could and should have won. You certainly had lots of time on the ball but rarely threatened. Overall you can be proud of your cup run. In case you think I have gone soft however I think that the Ronaldo type dive done by Robinson after 20 minutes was a disgrace and a slur on the proper football played in our Division. See you in 10 days time.
13, i heard you the first time,and im here,LOUD N PROUD boing boing going up the mowbury way
considering the dingles wernt going to watch it they all seem to know what happened,they just love watching us play dont they,there so jealous boing boing we going up playing football
who put the ball in the dingles net,look out hes coming to get ya boing boing
The way i see it, Pompey had a lot more to lose than Albion, which made them very nervous to begin with.
As soon as the first goal went I thought they settled down a bit and could have got a few more.
Whereas Albion, you failed to create any good chances. You did not deserve to go through, you had the easiest cup run this year, I would bet a lot of money on you not being any higher than round 5 next year.
Well thats my opinion anyways!
Up the Wolves!!
32dingle pratt,it was before the game,i wasaent crying till after,i,ll be crying agen soon when we win the league boing boing going up the MOWBURY WAY
Staying at home to watch the cup final the Mowbray way.
lol
34, And you can’t spell PHILLIPS! Typical dumb Wolves fan….
i meant 19,i heard you the first time, boing boing
whingeing wulfs can mouth off,but millions watched a top 6 premiership club outplayed by the Baggies.They edged it by a dodgy goal,but Albion ran rings round ‘em.Before any more hot air,maybe wulfs should look at their recent glorys against the likes of Morecambe & co.
1 ray ,we made pompey look rubbish just the same as we will show you what rubbish you are boing boing going up the MOWBURY WAY
how may times have wolves been to the new wembley then ?
boing boing
LMFAO! “we played all the football” “pompey was rubbish” “we wuz robbed” lets face it baggies,u ca do it in the big “1 off” games! you had the easiest run ever to a semi final and you blew it!
all your “superior” football was played in front of a solid pompey defence and as david james said after the game-they never looked worried! win,lose or draw-roll on next tuesday!!!!!! COME ON UUUUUUUUUUUU WOLVES!
terrywhateverbaggie…you are getting boring now, go swim in your tears. More of it to come from now till end of season, mark my words
What a enjoyable day, we showed we could compete with Portsmouth and overall the better team, I admit the goal was soft and maybe should’nt of been allowed, but admittedly I did’nt spot it at the game.
What made it enjoyable though was the fact I got to watch the team I love on the biggest stage in front of 83000+, West Brom & Portsmouth fans singing together before and after the game.
Proud to be a Baggie, unlucky lads!!!
i truly think that you should be proud of your effort saturday, unlike some so called football fans , i Was cheering you on, you looked the better side, but it wasnt to be, lets hope that we both get promotion somehow this season.
Delete Baggies insert Babbies….quit crying phillips You lost so just shut up. No doubt it was handball and you were the better side but you failed to take your chances and got all you deserved……NOTHING!!!!! HaHaHa.
Spot on TonyWBA.
Let the dingles spout off but I watched my team play an FA Cup Semi Final at Wembley along with 83,000 other fans.
Proud to wear the Blue and White Shirt.
47. How many times did the Sandwell Sados go to the OLD WEMBLEY? Same question different gist.
Still laughing on Monday morning THE WOLVES FAN WAY !!!!!!!!
Funny
From what I saw you played well in the 1st half but to be fair the stats show you didnt have 1 shot on target.
The players have got to pick themselves up after this or else risk blowing the whole season.
Nice to KP so gracious in defeat. Didnt expect anything else from such a nice bloke.
Lol Terry’s lost the plot…
Albion are a disgrace, you aint goin nowhere.
I honestly thought that you were unlucky, and Baros is a dirty cheat, but any of your players would have done the same so stop wingeing eh?
I was in London the weekend and saw lots of Baggies fans sticking their bottom lips out after the game. Made my weekend it did.
keep micky taking dinglets cos weem coming to turn you over see how cocky you feel then,,the best side lost and you now it,,,our time will come because we play the right way ,the mowbray way which is so much more than the crap you lot watch each week,but your to weak to admit it,,,,DOING THE WOLVES OVER THE MOWBRAY WAY,,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,,,OH YES
i had a fantastic weekend, i spent 2 hours saturday morning driving up and down the M40 between banbury & bicester and with my wolves scarf out the window giving all you albion supporters some stick and then went home to see it all go splat for you.
i hope you get more shots on goal when you come to the wolves next week.
come on you wolves
Very Proud of the lads , had a great day had a few beers .blah blah blah
Yes the goal may well have been a hand ball but thats the way it goes you cant win em all.
If pompey in the top half of the prem should we get promoted then I think we should have nothing to fear .
As for the idiots saying it was not hand ball lets just hope KP scores the winner against wolves with his hand and see if you feel a little agrieved!
Mark59.. Funny enough I too was in london on saturday And I never saw any bottom lipping… No no I tell a lie when I went to the bar and it cost 45 quid for 5 of us in may have quivered slightly.
no.46 terry, nah your wrong. Pompey made YOU look rubbish. What did David James have to do? Nothing. He looked bored out of his face. Baros should of had a hat-trick and Nugent should of wrapped it up, lucky for you they are both awful. Face it all you could do is pass the ball around on that massive pitch while pompey just mopped everything up, i dont even think they came off exhausted. What was Gera & Kiely doing on the goal? Talk about communication! boing boing blah blah.
you dinglets wanna hope we go up automaticly cos if we dont and you manage to fluke your way into the playoffs we will turn you over again like last year,so get your prayer mats out,,TOP OF THE LEAQUE WERE HAVIN ALAUGH WERE TOP OF THE LEAQUE WERE HAVIN ALAUGH,,,,ITS COMING DINGLES YOU KNOW IT IS,,,,GOING UP IN STYLE THE MOWBRAY WAY,,,OH YES,,AND DOING THE WOLVES OVER ON THE WAY,,,,,OH YES
Forgive my ignorance……… but why does Terry spell his own clubs managers name incorrectly?
Is he really a fan…. was he really at Wembers? or did he watch it on the box with his mum and dad?
62. Baggie Boy, I’m only teasing mate. Most of them looked quite happy to be honest. I spoke to some Pompey fans on the train on the way into London, they were right arrogant gits too. I was actually hoping that you were going to stuff them to be honest.
I’m sure most of us Wolves fans would have been proud to have got to the semi’s and gone out the way you did with your heads held high. I stand by what i said about the Baros goal though.
61.. you need to get a life old bean!!
60. Doing the double the mowbury way….You lost. You now look stupid and you are setting yourself up for more egg on your face.
crying at wembley we saw you crying at wembley, bring on the 15th
At least 50 post out of 68 from Wolves fans. Thanks for taking such an intrest in a proper team. I hope you are all on here next Wednesday morning but of course you won’t be after we have smashed you 3-0 at the custard bowl AGAIN!!!!!!!
BOING BOING PROUD TO BE A BAGGIE RATHER THAN A BITTER PATHETIC DOGHEAD!
WOLF2008,,,i dont mind egg on my face mate i support a fantastic team that under mowbray we are seeing some of the most exciting football since the 70s,,you can micky take as much as you like because i can take it unlike you fickle dingles,,,your soooooooooo jealous of us and you know it,if you put half the energy you put on here into going to support the wolves then your team might actually achieve something,YOU MUPPET…..DOING THE DOUBLE THE MOWBRAY WAY,,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,,OH YES.
69. I only saw children crying at Wembley mate and if thats what you enjoy well they have a name for people like you
65 funkster, youv just bin reeled in mate boing boing
71. Worcesterbaggie. You’ve been reeled in pal.
60. You can dish it out but you can’t take it can you. I only see one muppet on this blog. That’s you with the egg on your face! Why don’t you set yourself up for another fall. Oh, you already have!
To the people slagging off Phillips for being a whinger……..you are the very same people that
slag off Mowbray, for being dour and unemotional,
i suppose it`s whatever suits you`re argument eh.
And because you are so offended by Phillips complaints, i assume when you are on the wrong end of a poor decision, you all become gold shirt wearing Noel Cowards.
Southern Wolf…………i know it`s immaterial, but, the first shot on target was
Gera, the one James spilled.
LCW……….i would like to engage you in some
genuine debate,
with such a throwaway comment as
“Albion are a disgrace” i`m probably barking up the wrong tree ……….but how do you arrive at the conclusion that they are a disgrace ?
You wolves fans sound very very sad. We lost it happens.I thought we played well without really troubling James. It was handball but some you get some you don’t. What i don’t understand is all the gloating by the wolves fans, i am not sure what you lot are so pleased about. But look you will get you shot at it next week and we will see the diffrence between out teams.
Remember the song,WE DONT CARE WHAT THE WANDERERS SAY OR WHAT THE @@@@THEY SAY FOR WE ONLY KNOW IF THERES GONNA BE A SHOW WESTBROMWICH ALBION WILL BE THERE.
73 Terry, Thanks mate, its nice to feel wanted!
I genuinely am upset you didnt make the final… I think it’ll be boring now!
You may not believe that but I think you guys deserved to win, sadly it wasnt to be, we know what it’s like to miss out and heart break been there done that…. but hey It’ll be an exciting run in…. who’s got the bottle? good luck bud enjoy the ride!
67 baggie boy
i have a life “OLD BEAN” and guess what i am lovin it.
SPLATT
super kev,thats funny i thought someone was playing in red till i seen all the red empty seats again,did’nt hear much boinging after your heatbreak again wembley twice still can’t score,are the players heavy drinkers they always hit the bar,ha ha ha ha ha you’ll be crying again on the 15th poor little tesco bags.
#77 Sad no not sad. The wolves fans are only doing what you lot would be doing if they were beaten in a cup semi final. All you lot do is moan. You believe you have a divine right to win win win and clearly that is not the case. Face it you lost and they are really happy because they are sick of you “boing boings” thinking you’re the mutts nuts.
As an Albion fan who moved to Leeds 6 years ago, it is nice and refreshing to see just how childish the Wolves fans still are, god i have missed all of this.
I never went to the game but watched it on the tv, i am proud of the lads and feel that it was our game, listening to the commentary and the afterthoughts of Shearer and Dixon in the studio, you would have thouhght that the Albion didnt do a thing, they didnt have a good wourd to say about us!!, we all know that the FA does not really want teams like ours in the cup and they would have been deverstated if there was not a Prem side in the final, just makes me wonder after the ref ignored the handball. anyway Well done lads lets just look at promotion :0)
Cmon lads lets be honest. I’m not on here to gloat,Albion done really well to get to the final.
For weeks now though people like Terry have been on the wolves stories telling us how your going to win the cup,league,UEFA etc.Its just a little payback.If your going to give it you have to be able to take it.
How can phillips say portsmouth were lucky when the boggies never had a shot at goal.
84 what TV where you watching doesnt hitting the bar count as a shot at goal
GREAT! I LAUGHED SO MUCH
WBA played well, but if the most prolific CCC team struggle to score against what was on the day a poor Pompey team, it shows how hard it will be for any promoted team. Console yourselves with the thought of auto promotion, you deserve it, and I hope we can join you sooner or later.
Frankthegas.
No actually. A shot on target is one which requires a save.
A shot that hits the crossbar is off target.
Its not difficult.
westbrom did not threaten pompey one good long range effort off the bar that was it. brunt,benar and especially phillips were awful. still lots of empty seats your website promoting tickets still available 2 days prior to the game. why has your bored lowered ticket prices? where were those fans who went to wembley? only 20000 at the poorthorns against colchester? 2 trips to wembley 2 defeats and not even a goal for a consilation. geras going, hoefkens has slated the club and area never mind you got the pathetic diving i cant pass a medical so ill stay at WBA as your hero!!! dont say were not gracious we will try and beat bristol city to help your faltering season get back on track!!!
40 - We had the easiest cup run? Charlton away, P/Borough away, Cov away and Bristol Rovers away.
What about your cup run dingle? Yours was easier, you just failed. AGAIN!
Albion & Barnsley played well at Wembley - Just could not score - It doesnt matter how pretty the football is - If you dont score you cant win!
The lad that missed the golden chance for Barnsley was made to feel the shame of missing his chance - the same can be said for the Albion players that missed theirs!
The fans of BOTH clubs were let down and the players didnt rise to the occassion!
It ceases to amaze us that fans can say “Well done” for losing against a poor Pompey side who were there for the taking - Old Arry must be laughing in his champers! his face during the game was a picture of nerves as he clucked and clucked throughout until the relief and joy at the final whistle!
ALL the waffle in the world wont change the results!
NB* What Odds Albion on 3 Consecutive losing games at Wembley?
43 wiseguy.. can spell phillips….its prat
KANNUUUUUUUUU
KAN-u believe it?
91. and you failed as well so whats your point.