Albion Rovers boss in furious ref rant after 'blatant handball' claim that saw Cowdenbeath player 'need hand bandaged' turned down

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Albion Rovers boss Brian Reid has slammed the display of referee Calum Scott after he awarded Cowdenbeath a controversial penalty - and refused to award his side one for the same thing.And raging Reid pointed to the fact that Cowden's Craig Barr needed his hand strapped up as clear evidence the player handled the ball in the box.It was a tale of two penalty claims at Cliftonhill as Rovers midfielder Charlie Reilly was penalised for a handball in the box after eight minutes, which Fraser Mullen converted, and then before the break Barr handled a strike from Josh Jack inside the box but nothing was given.Reid says Barr appeared for the second half with a bandage on his hand, which only infuriated him more as his side were unable to take something from the game, despite the Blue Brazil being reduced to 10 men for the final nine minutes after Kyle Miller's red card.Reid fumed: "The red card didn't make much of a difference because it came so late on."The biggest disappointment in the game was the referee giving the softest penalty you'll see."How many times are we going to get penalties against us?"We had one claim where it hit Craig Barr on the hand and it hit him on the hand so blatantly he came out for the second half with his hand in a bandage!"It was blatantly obvious what happened at the time but the referee doesn't give it."Cowdenbeath couldn't believe their luck."I tried to talk to the referee and ask him about it but he didn't want to talk to me."It was the exact same situation that the referee gave a penalty against us for when the ball hit Charlie Reilly's hand."Charlie's hands are down by the side of his body and the ball has hit him from three yards away - you can't be giving a penalty for that."It's just a