Chelts boss takes aim at Stags bosses: 'Have you ever seen dugout shenanigans like that?'

Referee Darren Handley was firmly in the spotlight as he sent off two players from Cheltenham and one from Mansfield as well as sending Johnson to the stands for a shove on home assistant boss Paul Raynor.

“I didn’t think it was a dirty game at all,” he said.

“But unfortunately the technical area makes it a dirty game as they (Evans and Raynor) are screaming for everything all the time and some weaker refs get sucked in by it. That’s where I think they should have a look at that game.

“The referees have allowed them to win the day so well done, they’ve done their job. Maybe there should be a camera on their dug-out one day?

“In my opinion the FA have got to look at that as a whole game today.

“Have you ever seen someone booked for diving in the middle of the pitch in the first five minutes of a game?

“Have you ever seen dug-out shenanigans like that?”

He continued: “Steve Evans does it and his mate Paul Raynor, copies everything Steve does. I had him at Cambridge as a player and he was a bit similar then.

“Paul Raynor walked towards me right in the middle of my technical area so I gave him a little shove in the tummy. He went mad and the referee came over.

“Both came into my technical area at a time when their lad had gone down. He claimed an elbow but he soon got up. There was no malice in Taylor’s challenge from what I saw.”

Johnson is hoping the FA will take notice of the afternoon’s events.

“Uriah Rennie was the assessor -a very experienced person – and he’s go to have a good look at it and see what’s gone on,” he said.

“People get their comeuppance at the end of the day – I believe in karma. So does Steve Evans probably as he got sent off at our place and I’ve got sent off here.”

On the game itself, he added: “I am disappointed we lost but I am not a bad loser. I am gutted for the lads.

“My players put in a lot of good effort and when it went to 10 v 10 it looked like we could stay in it. But when you go down to nine men it becomes more of a problem.

“I was really pleased with the way we played 11 on 11.

“If Danny (Wright) has done something to be sent off near the end I will reprimand him as it was at a time when he shouldn’t have done that.

“I just felt the referee started off on the wrong foot and couldn’t get a grip of the game from thereon.”