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The referee was using a late injury delay to take a drink of water on the half-way touchline when Dowie stepped out of his technical area to confront him.

Story continues ADVERTISEMENT And when he persisted with his complaints, Foy's patience snapped and he ordered the City boss to the stands for the last five minutes of his side's 1-0 defeat.Dowie was unrepentant afterwards, explaining: "Michael Doyle was kicked off the ball - it was very blatant, the linesman was looking right at it - and I said to the referee 'did no-one say anything to you?

'"He just turned his back on me so I said 'talk to me, you can't show that arrogance' and he came back and sent me off.

"It's a passionate game, but not one swear word was used, so I will be interested to see what the report says."Dowie also insisted that Turner's first-half foul on Kevin Phillips was clumsy rather than vicious, and he sympathised with Diomansy Kamara for the two late cautions that will rule out the striker from West Brom's last match of the regular season.

"With Ben It was a bad tackle, a booking, end of story," he insisted.

"I thought it was a very harsh.

"As for Kama...

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