JASON Matthews gave his views on what he believed was a controversial equaliser for Dunstable Town at the Bob Lucas Stadium yesterday.

The Blues made it 2-2 and sealed a point through Charlie Henry’s sizzling strike from outside the area, after the Terras had almost stopped in their tracks.

But the hosts’ player-manager believed the strike should never have stood due to what he thought was a handball in the build-up, even though Dorchester official Mark Derrien allowed the goal to stand.

Matthews told Echosport: “I thought their lad controlled it with his arm, there was no two ways about it. The camera will have a good view and people can look at it however they want but the live version for me – and you’re usually not wrong unless your view is impeded — looked like handball.

“It was halfway up his arm and he controlled it with his arm and whipped a cross in. There is no more to be said on that, I am just stating facts and that is how I feel about it.

“I’m not blaming the referee, that’s the way it goes sometimes and we contributed to our own downfall, but at the end of the day, that decision cost us because we were still comfortable at 2-1 and pushing for another goal.”

On Weymouth’s quest for promotion, he added: “We have nine games to go now and the ball is still in our court, if somebody said we would be third at this stage at the start of the season I would have taken it.

“It is very frustrating because our results haven’t gone for us over the last five or six weeks, but we have to keep going and stay positive and that’s what I will do.”