<div class="ds-headline" id="ds-headline">Ref on spot as Reds scramble home amid penalty controversy</div> <div class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara">UNIMPRESSED? </div> <div class="va-bodytext" id="va-bodytext">Thenit's a cast iron, nailed on, belt and braces, 100 per cent, absoluteracing certainty you haven't seen the Colchester game yet. BeatingYeovil 1-0 isn't exactly high rolling for anyone who claims a wage forplaying football but this Barnsley bunch at least turned themselvesfrom gutless into grafters to pull it off. Manager Andy Ritchie wasthe first to admit it wasn't pretty but it erased some of the memory ofthat 1-0 disaster at Colchester and, more importantly, broke thesequence of two defeats. Okay, so it was all settled by a dodgypenalty. It was always likely to be that way with random ref IainWilliamson calling the shots. Perhaps only his distribution of yellow cards was weirder than the doling out of penalties. Chris Shuker got cautioned. My guess - for being short and having a funny haircut. Shuker protested, as did managers Gary Johnson and Ritchie over three iffy penalty verdicts. SaidJohnson: "We feel hard done by, we deserved a draw at least. We feltthe trip on Kevin (Amankwaah) was a penalty, he's not going to fallover deliberately when he's going to shoot." Ritchie remarked: "Wecount ourselves lucky with the penalty because in my eyes I didn'tthink it was one. I said that to their manager after the game. "Butit's swings and roundabouts. Five minutes after that one we should havehad a blatant penalty. Barry Conlon was absolutely climbed all over. Ithought there were some strange decisions." Conlon got a gamebecause Daniel Nardiello's hamstring has twanged again (and it's notlooking healthy for Tuesday). Big Barry was more of an asset inBarnsley's box than he was threat in the Yeovil's. As the visitorsgained almost as many corners as they had fans watching, Conlon got asmuch head-the-ball action as Matt Carbon and Paul Reid. Jacobs Burnswas Barnsley's best player and was big time unlucky not to score. Hisblast from 25 yards was goalbound but somehow pushed on to the post bykeeper Chris Weale. Barnsley goalie Nick Colgan also saw his goalframe shaken by a good dig from Yeovil man of the match Darren Way. Theaction that swung the points for Barnsley came as Neil Austin made arare break into the Yeovil box. Efe Sodje slid in, Austin slid over. WithPaul Hayes, who'd had a pretty indifferent afternoon, already subbed,Robbie Williams took the penalty. It was textbook - hard, low, into acorner. Ritchie liked the commitment he saw all over his team. "Itwas about three points today, it wasn't about how we played. You can'tplay purist football every week," he said. "Over the whole 90minutes I thought we just edged it. They had a good patch 15 minutesafter half-time but then they seemed to crumble again. "After last week I was looking for them to be men and stand up and I thought they did. "I thought we had some great defensive play." simon.meeks@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=59&ArticleID=1122224 </div>