Brown blasts penalty decision

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Brown blasted the decision by referee Keith Stroud to award the spot kick in the 73rd minute after Ricardo Fuller tumbled under the challenge of goalkeeper Boaz Myhill. Fuller converted from 12 yards to cancel out Jamaican team-mate Marlon King's opener on the stroke of half-time.

"We've been robbed by a poor decision, in my opinion," said Brown, whose side were on course for a fifth away win. "It wasn't a spectacle by any stretch of the imagination."

He added: "But we came in 1-0 up - I said the first goal would be important and it should have been enough to win it - but we were a little bit undone by a dubious decision.

"It was a very theatrical dive. You have to be 100 per cent right when you make decisions like that and I don't think you can be in that situation."

The incident drew a contrasting response from Stoke boss Tony Pulis, however, after his side bucked their trend of losing when going behind this season.

"I have just seen it on the television and he definitely caught his back leg," said Pulis.

"From one angle it doesn't look like he is anywhere near it but when they show it from the side angles you could see he definitely caught that back leg.

"If I had seen just one view I would have said it was a debatable one."