Birmingham City manager Chris Davies claimed the Blues were robbed of at least a point when they had a goal wrongly disallowed in their 2-1 Championship loss at Ipswich Town.

The officials ruled the ball crossed the by-line before Ibrahim Osman’s cross went in off Dara O’Shea to leave Davies fuming.

He felt Birmingham deserved at least a draw for their efforts at Portman Road and they pushed Ipswich hard before succumbing to their sixth defeat in eight games.

Davies told BBC Radio WM: “I thought the least we deserved was a point from today’s game.

“We scored a legitimate goal and I’ve never been as frustrated with a refereeing decision in my entire career in football, because of how hard we worked at a place like this to get into that position.

“For a linesman 60 yards away to guess, when actually we now see the ball isn’t out of play, is very frustrating because the least we deserved was a point from this game.

“You can see from the reaction of the players that it was in play and it’s one person guessing in this whole stadium.

“I asked the linesman straight after the game ‘why did you do that?’ and he said ‘I can assure you the ball was out of play, I wouldn’t have given it otherwise’.

“But it wasn’t. We’ve seen that and that is as hard to take as anything because of what we gave in the game and what we deserved.”

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