Wilson penalty fury as Maguire settles derby at the death

Three players – Barnsley duo Emmanuel Frimpong and Jacob Mellis plus Wednesday’s Jermaine Johnson – were sent off in a feisty derby scrap at Hillsborough.

The Reds had battled for over an hour with 10 men, only to be punished in the ‘97th-minute’ when Chris Maguire fired home a long-range winner.

At that stage, only 19 players remained on the pitch, Johnson and Mellis departing in the last 10 minutes of the game.

The latter was fuming he had his penalty appeal for a trip by Miguel Llera rejected by Marriner, and seemed to take his frustrations out with a lunging tackle on Jacques Maghoma.

It all left Wilson – a veteran of Hillsborough derbies from his time as a player and manager of Wednesday – cutting an angry figure after the final whistle.

“We have played for an hour with 10 men, I think our goalkeeper has had one save to make of any note in the whole game,” said Wilson.

“I don’t know what’s happening with the decisions being made on the pitch.

“We kept our cool very well. We have a stonewall penalty rejected, and his (Mellis’s) frustration gets him sent off. It is stupidity from that point of view, and what he did is not tolerated. But the boy was going through, he had no need to go down facing the goal with the ball on his left foot and expected to bury it. He’s then been clipped, caught on the shin, that’s the frustrating thing.

“I think the referee and officials have to look at their performances.

“To have three players sent off in a game like this, I don’t think there was a bad tackle in the game. It’s a derby game for heaven’s sake.

“There was no nastiness at all. It was a good footballing derby game, and I don’t think three players being sent off is justified.

“If we are going to go to the letter of the law, simulation has happened about six times. Two have been punished (Jack Hunt and Chris Maguire were booked for diving), four have got away with it. Where’s the consistency?

“We have been punished three times (two red cards and a rejected penalty) in the game and lost it when we thought we deserved something out of it.”

Debutant Frimpong was described as “naive” by Wilson for picking up two yellow cards inside 31 minutes, and he played down Johnson’s ugly tackle on Brek Shea, which happened in front of the dug-out.

“It’s a winger’s tackle,” he said. “Is it a booking? Maybe.

“We feel aggrieved, I am full of emotion. Trying to be careful how I choose my words, but I think I have every right to feel aggrieved.”

In response to Barnsley midfielder Mellis’s penalty claim, Owls chief Stuart Gray – his team are the only side in the Championship not to be awarded a spot-kick this season – said: “I don’t want to get into a penalty argument because we don’t get them.

“We probably had a couple of claims as well.”

Match report: Page 2.