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Motherwell seek Ibrox penalty explanation but Askou keen to move on

Motherwell are seeking an explanation for a rejected penalty claim at Ibrox but manager Jens Berthel Askou is keen to move on from the incident.

Referee David Dickinson waved play on when Lukas Fadinger went down under a challenge from Emmanuel Fernandez in the closing moments of their 1-0 defeat to Rangers and the action resumed quickly.

Askou was convinced Motherwell should have had a spot-kick and has not changed his opinion, while chief executive Brian Caldwell has contacted the Scottish Football Association referees department.

“I haven’t spoken much to Brian since but I think it’s probably a question of not having the angles that supports what you can clearly see in some of the angles that we have from our photographers,” the Dane said.

“But I can see that the situation, even on the pitch from all sorts of angles wherever you look at it, speaks for itself.

“The communication between them and Brian I think it’s a good, open, fair, honest discussion.

“Eventually maybe they will comment like they do sometimes on some of these things, and I will leave that up to them.

“For us it’s closed, there’s nothing we can do about it. We feel it was a wrong decision and we stand by that.

“It doesn’t really make sense to spend a lot of energy on getting all sorts of explanations after the game for me. My most important thing is to make sure that we move on.

“In football and in life, sometimes the things you cannot control, they go your way, sometimes they don’t. You have to accept it and move on. It was a hard one, of course, but we don’t have time to dwell on it.”

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