Wairarapa United furious with referee

A refereeing call has left Wairarapa United fuming after they went down 2-3 at the hands of Tawa in a Wellington premier soccer clash on the weekend.
With the match in the balance midway through the second spell and the scores locked at 2-2, Wairarapa pushed forward and looked certain to score when Lai Gatarua surged into the box only to be cut down by the defence.
The referee then turned what was seemed to be an unquestionable penalty into a free kick against Gatarua, leaving the players and manager Phil Keinzley absolutely livid.
Salt was then rubbed into the wound moments later when Sakeo Valevou attempted to run the ball out from deep inside his half and was dispossessed in the tackle leaving Tawa with a one on one that they sent home for the match winner.
To make matters worse, Keinzley was 'sent-off' from the sideline for "expressing his opinion" on the state of the refereeing.
"It's been happening all season with the referee, we've only had one good one and the rest have been pretty shoddy to say the least," Keinzley said.
"After the match the Tawa players came up and apologised saying they deliberately brought Gatarua down and couldn't believe he (the ref) called him for diving.
"It's pretty bloody infuriating, but there's nothing we can do really."
Wairarapa looked to have the match in the bag as they dominated the first half after conceding the first goal in the opening minute.
With player/coach Pita Rabo recovered sufficiently from his knee injury, the side produced two brilliant goals to hit the sheds 2-1 up. Rabo found the net first when he nodded home an Aaron Spierling cross but then came Valevou's sensational long-range strike that put his side ahead.
Hot on attack Wairarapa were handed a corner that looked to have been comfortably cleared until the centre-back came forward and met the ball on the volley to send a screamer thundering into the net from 10 metres inside Tawa's half.
Unfortunately that was the last smile cast as the side allowed errors to creep into their game, giving the home side a chance to hit back from another defensive mistake.
This time goalkeeper Tony Jamieson was embarrassed as he chased a ball from a corner and was caught off his line.
"It's disappointing because we haven't conceded a goal from a corner for three years, and they got two," Keinzley said.
"At this point I still believe we are the best team in the league, we just need to cut out the errors because that's the only reason the opposition are scoring goals.
"They're winning off our mistakes rather than making the play themselves and we need to fix that.
"We face Kapiti Coast this weekend so there'll be plenty of work put in at training because they're a pretty physical side."