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This is the full transcript from Steve Evans's shocking rant at Mark Robins after his Mansfield Town side were held by 10-man Coventry City yesterday.

Evans launched astonishing attacks on Coventry boss Robins and referee Michael Salisbury at full-time.

In a video uploaded to the Stags's iFollow channel, Evans blasted "squeaky" Robins - and made a bizarre threat to speak to the City manager himself.

Former Rotherham boss Evans was fuming after Oxford loanee Kane Hemmings opened the scoring after a quarter of an hour against ten-man City, who had had Jordan Willis sent off.

Jonson Clarke-Harris would rescue a result in the second period, though, when he won and then converted a penalty.

Evans was less than impressed by the officiating throughout the afternoon by Mr Salisbury, and he suggested that League Two was a level too high for him.

Sky Blues fans were quick to lambast the manager on social media - but, if you missed the video, here's a transcript to help you understand what the fuss is all about:

Full transcript

“We’ve had good chances, half chances, full chances,” Evans said.

“But why don’t we win the game? Because the referee gives a penalty which he’s entitled to do. I’m speaking with the benefit of looking at it back - it’s not a penalty.

“But if he gives that, he must give the one on Ricky Miller, where there is a push.

“And the handball is in the box by half a yard.

“The referee has been shocking and he’ll be marked accordingly.

“He’s given a very soft penalty at one end and not two concrete penalties at the other.

“He allows the boy Doyle to stay on the pitch when he’s kicked the ball away, even though he’s already on a caution, and his excuse is to come and give me a stage one warning.

“I thought he was horrendous. He shouldn’t officiate at this level, he’s just come up - now go back to where he belongs.

“I’ve got to be careful what I say or I’ll be done by the FA on Monday, but we feel really, really let down by the match officials.

“When was the last time I spoke about a match official?

“Really let down, he was awful, he didn’t give us decisions that we thought we should have had many, many times.”

“We appeal for everything, but I tell you what we don’t do - we don’t abuse opposition players on the field of play.

“That’s the second time - Gary Johnson has done it with Rose, and I’ve just watched Robins, little Robins, the manager who thinks he should be the manager of England, absolutely slaughtering Danny Rose on the field of play - ignored.

“We’ll raise that with the authorities, that’s two managers that have done it.

“That’s the Gary Johnson who called my assistant manager names, and then squeaked when the FA went to him.

“I’m absolutely furious - but credit to Coventry players, I’m not faulting their players, they’ve run to the end for their team, they’ve put bodies on the line, the supporters were tremendous, the atmosphere was like a play-off game.

“We’re going to have counter attacks when they’ve got players like [Marc] McNulty, [Jonson] Clarke-Harris and [Michael] Doyle on big money, and little squeaky Robins, who says that they don’t do all that stuff.

“Just leave my players alone Robins, I’ll be speaking to you myself.”