I applaude Aloisi for coming out and saying it as it was...The fact of the matter is.... we didn't play well... we had the wrong team on the pitch,
we only were scored against due to one mistake, and we were cheated so many times throughout the match by the referee..
Even if we were awared the penalty, it doesn't mean that we would have scored it...
to continue into extra time...
But it was wrong that we were denied the chance of what should have been rightfully ours...a penalty.
I would bet that had the same thing happened down the other end of the field, Newcastle would have been awarded
now look at the consequences, we now have danny facing a hefty suspension, and the entire club is being asked question.
I recall see Newcastle treating and touching the referee the same way in the preliminary finals..
what happened to them?.. A BIG FAT NOTHING!..........
So I say good onya Aloisi... TELL IT LIKE IT WAS..............
by the way who was the fourth referee?...ohh Breeze.........
http://sportal.co.nz/football-news-display/ref-cost-us-a-penalty-aloisi-43773
Central Coast star John Aloisi has sensationally claimed grand final referee Mark Shield was talked out of giving his team a penalty in the dying stages of Newcastle's dramatic Hyundai A-League title win on Sunday.
The Jets won their first national football championship 1-0 but the match exploded at the death when Shield turned down a clear-cut Mariners penalty.
A stunned Aloisi revealed after the match that he and team-mates had overheard the referee's assistant on the far side of the field indicate through his earpiece that the Jets' James Holland had handled the ball on his goal-line.
But according to the Socceroos striker, Shield then consulted his assistant on the near side of the pitch before turning down the penalty appeal.
Incensed Mariners goalkeeper Danny Vukovic was sent off for handling Shield in the aftermath as angry Central Coast players vented their frustration.
"That's what the players heard. The players heard the referee because they've got the earpiece and they talk to each other," Aloisi explained.
"He (Shield) goes 'right, you saw a handball. I'm going to check with the guy on the nearside'."
"I'm only going on what my team-mates said. You'll have to ask 'Shieldsy' that one but that's what happened. He goes over (to his assistant) and he (comes back and) goes 'no handball'."
Aloisi was the first player to touch the ball after the alleged handball and has no doubt Holland used his arm.
Television replays strongly back Aloisi's assertion.
"We saw it. We heard the 'aws' from the Newcastle supporters, we heard the cheers from the Mariners supporters but the referee said no penalty," Aloisi continued.
"I saw the handball and the ball came to me and I still headed it."
"It went over the bar but I was surprised there was no whistle blowing."
"We all saw it."
Central Coast coach Lawrie McKinna added: "I think the 100,000s of people who watched the game and everybody that's here can make up their own mind. We don't need to say anything about it because you all saw."
Aloisi admitted the decision would haunt his team for some time.
"It's upsetting that the whole stadium saw it and you guys saw it - (everyone) except the referee," he said.
"What can you do? It's hard to get over it but it's something you have to get over."
"People make mistakes but it's (a) mistake that cost us."
"I'm not taking anything away from Newcastle. I thought they played well, especially the first 20 (minutes)."
"We didn't play well but we still created a few good chances and to lose like that right at the end, that's hard to take."
