REFEREES’ chiefs have contacted Blackburn Rovers boss Owen Coyle to tell him Marvin Emnes’ disallowed goal against Sheffield Wednesday should have stood.

Rovers went down 1-0 at home to the Owls last month after an Emnes ‘equaliser’ 11 minutes from the end of normal time was controversially ruled out for offside.

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The defeat ended the Ewood Park outfit’s two-game winning run and it was followed by another 1-0 reverse, at Birmingham City, before the international break.

That latter loss has left Rovers third-from-bottom going into tomorrow’s home clash with an Ipswich Town team without a win and a goal in their last four matches.

And asked about his side’s position and form Coyle revealed the Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMO) had been in touch with cap in hand.

He said: “We’re not in the position we are in for the last six games. We’re in the position because we took one point from the first five games of the season.

“As a matter of fact from the last six games from everybody in the division we’d actually be sitting 12th in the table.

“We’ve seen the improvement from the first five games and from the first international break to the next one.

“It has been night and day and that’s actually within the Sheffield Wednesday game where I certainly believe we were worthy of a minimum of a point.

“It was no consolation for the PGMO board to ring me a week last Monday to say look, ‘it’s no consolation but that was a very good goal you scored against Sheffield Wednesday’.

“Stuff like that has not been in our favour but we know going forward we are getting better all the time.

“Even at Birmingham we certainly could have walked away with a point.

“I certainly believe we will get better as we go. Moving forward we’re very confident.”

Of the Ipswich game, Coyle said: “We have to make sure we control what we can.

“And that’s us working hard to earn the right to pass and move the ball and when we do that try to be incisive with pace and penetration because we know we can score goals.

“But we’re not being naïve. We need to get better and start keeping clean sheets to give ourselves a platform to go and win games.”