Wrexham's Phil Parkinson was wrong for West Brom 'conned' comment - the referee was just doing his job

Josh Maja took full advantage to fire home and put Albion two up. Credit to Wrexham, they showed their quality to get back into the game and earn a point.

It was a fair result. A simple game, each side won a half essentially.

Watching the game and the incident for the penalty, nothing was really in contention - until Parkinson entered the press conference at The Hawthorns and went on to have a mini ‘head loss’.

He accused Molumby of ‘conning the referee’ before then going on to lay into Madley. It was wide of the mark and outright wrong from Parkinson to be perfectly honest.

Calling into question Molumby’s integrity and that of a former Premier League referee.

By the letter of the law, it is as cast iron of a penalty as you will see all season.

And players have been warned. Every summer we hear referees are being told to clamp down on pulling and grappling in the box.

Madley just took the advice, took it on board and wasn’t taking any prisoners. He was doing his job.

So it was wrong on so many levels for Parkinson to come out and be critical of the referee.

And lets be honest, Albion have had nothing from the officials by way of spot kicks all season, in comparison to the Welsh side.

The penalty shouldn’t have been the biggest issue for Parkinson at The Hawthorns. It should have been the bad display from his free spending Wrexham side.

Credit to him and his players, they thoroughly deserved a point for their second half fightback.

But next time he might want to look within - rather than pointing blame at an honest player and a referee who was just doing his job.