Scott Parker and Paul Heckingbottom verdict on big Sheffield United and Bournemouth controversy

Paul Heckingbottom and Scott Parker both felt Sheffield United should have been awarded a penalty in the second half of today's goalless draw at Bramall Lane. Morgan Gibbs-White appeared to be hacked to the ground by Nat Phillips and to everyone's amazement, referee Dean Whitestone said no.

Heckingbottom was furious at the time and having watched it back says it was 'even worse' than what he was told at the time. The Blades boss even went into the referee's room after the match, but that did little to make him feel any better either.

It meant both teams had to settle for a point in a keenly contested affair and United missed the chance to move up in to third ahead of the day's 3pm kick-off. Heckingbottom said far too many of those big decisions have gone against United recently and he was far from happy.

He said: "Everyone told me at the time, but I have seen it back and it's worse than it was described to me. It's a penalty. I have been in and seen him (referee), but I probably feel worse. I don't know why you bother going in, you come out feeling more frustrated.

"They are not going our way those moments at the minute but we'll save them up and hopefully things like that help us get over the line. That's the frustrating bit, because we have got a lot of things right today against a good side, but you want other people to do their jobs just as good. We feel a bit hurt like that at the minute, that's as black and white as they come and those black and white ones really hurt."

To his credit, Scott Parker accepted that he felt his side had 'got away with one'. He said: "It looked that way. I have not seen it back, but in real time when I saw it quickly it looked like it could have been one which may have been a