 Saturday, 3rd Oct 2009 22:35 Town boss Roy Keane slammed reporters for failing to ask him about the controversial penalty awarded to Barnsley after the Tykes had beaten his side 2-1 at Oakwell. Iain Hume missed the spotkick, given for an apparent foul on the Canadian by Tommy Smith. As Keane left the room at the end of his post-match press conference he rounded on reporters: "You've watch the game and nobody's asked me about the bloody penalty. That about sums you up. Was it a penalty? Does anyone in this room think it was a penalty?” Keane himself had no doubts: "I couldn't understand what the penalty was given for. None of their players appealed for it and I didn't agree with the freekick against Tommy Smith that led to their second goal. "He's won the header and then they have taken the kick 10 yards further forward. That said, we should have dealt with it. “A minute before that, we had one kicked off the line and you go from almost winning it to losing in with the last kick of the game.” Keane felt his side got something from the game: "It's another disappointing result but we deserved more than we got. "It wasn't a pretty game but we had just about the better of the chances, barring the penalty. To concede in injury time again after five and a bit minutes is hard to take. "But we knew coming here today would be difficult with the conditions and Barnsley being on a good run of results." The Blues boss thought his team came back into it after a slow beginning to the game: "We had a poor start with the goal but we responded well and had some good opportunities. "That's the way it's going for us at the moment. Instead of winning the game in the last couple of minutes, you go from the disappointment of that to having a double whammy by actually conceding." The Blues boss seems in no mood to relinquish control, despite the continuing bad results: “I'm still as determined as ever, 100%. “It's the toughest time I have had in my career, though I had tough times as a player, but we have got to deal with it. “It's tough at the moment because the players deserve better than what they are getting. We're stuck in a rut, so we have to try and get out of it.” Keane reacted angrily to a TV reporter asking him if he was going to carry on as Town manager, refusing to dignify what he felt was an insulting question with an answer. When asked how that should be interpreted he glared at the reporter and said: “Take that any way you want.” Tykes boss Mark Robins was pleased to have achieved his side’s second win in a week: "It's back-to-back wins for the first time since I think Boxing Day last year, so from that point of view its excellent. "It's a decent return, we've had a decent start. We've been in three weeks now and we're seeing things starting to move. The supporters are behind us, that's really important, and the players are behind us. "They're putting in the performances now. Sometimes you have to grind it out but if you can do that around teams around you that's an indicator or how you'll perform at the end of the season." Robins thought his side deserved the win: "I think so, having missed a penalty, hit a crossbar, missed a free shot when it goes in if Ryan Shotton makes good contact. "They've had one or two chances too where the goalkeeper has made a good save, but the weather didn't help the game. "It's a great time to a score a goal, there's no chance of a reply. The conditions were shocking, atrocious, and they didn't make for a good game of football and I don't think we got one."
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