Harriers appeal Matthews' red card
Kidderminster Harriers will be appealing the red card shown to striker Robbie Matthews in Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Luton at Aggborough.
Furious manager Mark Yates confirmed this morning that there will be a response to the incident, after the big forward was shown a straight red by referee Richard Wigglesworth for an alleged stamp on goalkeeper Mark Tyler in stoppage time at the end of the first half.
Harriers at that point were a goal up through top scorer Matthew Barnes-Homer's seventh goal of the season's on 13 minutes, only for the 10 men to collapse to Adam Newton's equaliser and Ryan Charles' 90th minute winner.
To add injury to insult, Luton's Rossi Jarvis was also sent off for a rash challenge on Chris McPhee, with the home skipper forced off through injury as a result.
That has left the captain as a major doubt for Saturday's home game against Crawley, but it was Matthews' sending off that still rankles with the manager today.
He said: "I actually feel sorry for the referee, because their goalkeeper has conned him - a bloke who up until Saturday I thought was a good, professional player who has been around a long time.
"What he did leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Mark Tyler claimed that Robbie stamped on him, he jumped up in front of 500 Luton fans after their lad has just been sent off and our man has been sent off to even the game up.
"We lost both him and Chris McPhee to injury - they lost Rossi Jarvis, who hadn't had a kick of the ball. The decision had a massive bearing on the game, as we never should have been down to 10 men.
"There will be an appeal, you can count on that, and I bet they won't appealing theirs."
