Championship roundup: Hannibal Mejbri reports Osmajic incident at Preston

  • Burnley’s Deepdale draw makes it 11 clean sheets in a row
  • Pompey strike twice in second half to win 2-0 at Oxford

Scott Parker was left frustrated that Marcus Edwards did not get a late penalty in Burnley’s 0-0 draw with Preston in the Championship. Controversy struck in the 90th minute when the on-loan Sporting star went down under a sliding challenge from Lewis Gibson but referee Anthony Kitchen waved away the spot-kick appeals.

For the visitors it was an 11th clean sheet in a row in the Championship but a frustrated Parker said: “It’s a penalty for me and I don’t think I’m being biased in my understanding of it. Marcus Edwards has touched the ball first and then he’s touched it on to the player who’s slid on the ground on to that player. The referee said to me that the defender got the ball. He didn’t get the ball. If the defender’s running with the ball and I want to tackle him, I have to get contact with the ball first.”

This story will be updated after the 3pm kick-offs

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Keown apologises to Van Nistelrooy for infamous Old Trafford ‘shenanigans’

  • Former players recall incident from game in 2003
  • Van Nistelrooy: ‘It was a good rivalry, wasn’t it?

Martin Keown has apologised to Ruud van Nistelrooy for the notorious clash between the pair at Old Trafford in 2003 after they renewed acquaintances at Leicester on Saturday.

The TNT Sports pundit Keown was at the King Power Stadium to cover Leicester’s Premier League home fixture with Arsenal and caught up with Foxes boss Van Nistelrooy before kick-off.

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