<p>By?CHRIS?HUDSON</p>
<p>Boss Andy Sinton insists he is “fed up” with controversial decisions costing AFC Telford United – after a dodgy penalty set the stage for defeat at Braintree.</p>
<p>The Bucks looked on course for only a second away win of the Blue Square Bet Premier season when Jay Smith fired them into a seventh minute lead in Essex on Saturday.</p>
<p>But Ben Wright scored twice for the hosts, the first a penalty on the stroke of half-time after on-loan winger Ashley Cain was harshly judged to have brought down Brad Quinton.</p>
<p>“If I said what I wanted to about the standard of the officials I would probably get into trouble,” said Sinton.</p>
<p>“If we’d gone in at half-time 1-0 up then I think we would have won the game, I haven’t got a crystal ball but I think the penalty changed the game.</p>
<p>Adamant</p>
<p>“Ash is adamant he hasn’t made contact with the guy and their guy has come off the pitch and said he hasn’t made contact with him.</p>
<p>“I’m getting a bit fed up with how many controversial decisions are going against us and costing us points.”</p>
<p> The defeat meant Telford dropped to 18th in the table, just three points above the relegation zone.</p>
<p>But the Telford chief refused to criticise his side for their latest setback against one of the sides in the bottom half of the table. </p>
<p>“I can’t fault the lads’ endeavour,” he said. “Their attitude, I thought, was spot on. For 40 minutes we were by far the better side.</p>
<p>“Maybe we don’t go horrible enough or ugly enough against these so-called lesser sides, maybe we think we’ve got to play a little bit more. Maybe we’re a better with the underdog tag.”</p>