Wiley blunders cost us dear, blasts Everton star AJ

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The Everton striker thought he had scored the winning goal in Saturday's 0-0 draw but saw it ruled out - bizarrely - for offside by Wiley's assistant, even though replays confirmed it was legitimate.

Aside from that, Wiley also refused to award Johnson a penalty after he was brought down by Zurab Khizanishvili and failed to show Blackburn's David Dunn a second yellow card for deliberate handball after he had earlier been cautioned for a foul on Mikel Arteta.

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Incident: Andy Johnson falls under the challenge of Blackburn Rovers' Zurab Khizanishvili

David Dunn is outjumped by Lee Carsley of Everton

Everton felt the full force of that error when Dunn cleared Phil Jagielka's header off the line and Johnson said: "The ref said if the goalkeeper is our side of me, there needs to be two defenders keeping me onside but there was the goalkeeper and three defenders keeping me onside. It's so disappointing as we should have all three points.

"It was a perfectly good goal. It's not as if it was a tight decision. I was onside by three or four yards and it is just a bad mistake from the referee. But it happens in football. It happened last year in a game away at Newcastle.

"We are disappointed because we had a couple of good chances to win it. We dominated the game. We wanted to open a gap between us and the teams below us. We just need to make sure that we look forward now and get three points against Reading."

Everton remain in fourth in the Barclays Premier League table following their second consecutive scoreless game but it could and should have been so much better as Johnson had no idea why Wiley failed to award a penalty after Khizanishvili's high challenge.

"We have had a look at it a few times since and it was a penalty," said Johnson. "You only have to see that he has kicked out at my knees and he's brought me down. If it happens anywhere else on the pitch, it's a free-kick, so why isn't it a penalty?

"A couple of bad decisions have cost us but there you go. What can you do? That's football. The boys are all disappointed because we feel that we should have had three points. We have just got to put this disappointment behind us and move on.

"There is still a lot of work to be done. We have done well to get into fourth place but we won't be sitting around looking at what we've achieved so far. We want to get into the Champions League and are determined to finish the job off."