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Fulham boss Sanchez reveals his dossier on referees

Lawrie Sanchez today revealed he has compiled a dossier of refereeing mistakes after two more contentious decisions cost his Fulham side a win against Blackburn yesterday.

Official Mike Dean failed to spot a handball in the penalty area by Blackburn defender Andre Ooijer and striker Jason Roberts offside in the build up to the visitors first goal.

Sanchez is set to pen a letter to referee supremo Keith Hackett in a bid to highlight what he believes is a bias against his side.

"We're not getting any decisions," he said. "I'll be writing a letter to Keith for him to show at his weekly conference.

"It must get embarrassing for him to keep showing these mistakes because my DVD collection of official's errors is about 15 minutes long, and that's just 14 games into the season."

In truth, a draw was probably a fair result as Blackburn showed resilience to twice come from a goal down despite losing striker Benni McCarthy to an early injury.

Danny Murphy and Diomansy Kamara scored for the hosts while Brett Emerton and Stephen Warnock levelled for the visitors and Sanchez said: "Blackburn are an excellent side, a great credit to their manager Mark Hughes.

"He has a great squad, a great style of play. I said to my team if we can be where they are in three years time I'll be pleased."

Official Mike Dean failed to spot a handball in the penalty area by Blackburn defender Andre Ooijer (right)

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