Dion Dublin blasted North Macedonia's awarding of a spot-kick against England on Friday as 'never a penalty' and criticised Three Lions defenders for 'being on mute'.
England surprisingly went a goal behind against the European minnows after Rico Lewis was deemed to have fouled Bojan Miovski after catching him with a trailing arm.
The Manchester City youngster jumped the ball on his senior England debut, but slightly caught his North Macedonian opponent in the face when doing so.
Referee Filip Glova initially waved play on before being told by VAR to watch the incident back on the pitchside monitor and subsequently awarded the penalty.
Former England international, Dublin, watched on in Skopje and balked at the officials decision that gave Enis Bardhi the chance to open the scoring.
'That can't be a penalty surely. The hand in face I get that but football is a contact sport. Surely not.
'Oh my word. I am very surprised ref has given that, really am. Hand in face I get that but how else are you supposed to jump? Never a penalty for me, never,' he fumed.
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not what i heard! he can play 5-6 positions so that’s not a problem, but the pen happened while he was in CB which is not one of those 5-6 positions lol
you are 100 times sensible than this idiottt @tiwbmpuz
veecmpsuz
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Young Lewis was poor...Southgate wasn't fair to the youngster by playing him off position.
not what i heard! he can play 5-6 positions so that’s not a problem, but the pen happened while he was in CB which is not one of those 5-6 positions lol
tiwbmpuz
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Young Lewis was poor...Southgate wasn't fair to the youngster by playing him off position.
Sofreshh
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That’s a clear pen
AUWALMUSA3132
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This is the taste of your medicine. Now English football is questioning officiating. Don't worry, they all learnt from you