Laws - The referee was conned

"We are a lot better side than we showed today. We had two players suspended and our target man Steve Torpey was out injured," he told our correspondant after the match.

He he had no complaints about the red card, but about the penalty he said: "I think the referee was conned."

"Ferguson ran into the box, Cliff Byrne stood up and he has knocked it past him and dived.

"The referee looked at the linesman, hesitated, and then given it. That probably capped his performance."

Wrexham manager Denis Smith was understandably a happy man, saying: "It was a good result and until we went 2-0 up we gave a good performance.

"We didn't give them any chances until the last few minutes when we eased off and had defensive problems. "