ROYSTON Davies blamed referee Ray Torzuk for Bridport's narrow defeat at the hands of Roman Glass in Toolstation Western League Division One.

The hosts' manager believed that Tozluk, who was a short notice replacement for Jim Walker, let the visitors dominate his lightweight Bees with bully-boy tactics and later described his performance as "abysmal".

But despite playing second fiddle to the Bristol outfit all afternoon Bridport were only beaten by a 70th minute penalty, which was rammed home by substitute David Doe.

"I blame the referee," said Davies. "He let them bully us in every area of the park and we weren't allowed to play football.

"When you have a six-foot bloke shoving a five-foot-six lad there is only going to be one winner.

"We have lost sight of the game of football, the beautiful game'," he added.

"Week after week we are faced with sides that make no attempt to play football."

During the course of the afternoon defenders Paul Fellows and Chris Senior were both booked, along with a trio of Roman Glass players, before Ryan Hayter vented his frustrations to the referee after the final whistle and received a straight red.

Ill discipline has been an unattractive feature of Bridport this season and as the annual winter slog approaches they are likely to be hampered by a string of lengthy suspensions.

However, Davies does understand his Bees' anger. "If the ref wasn't so poor, and he was abysmal, we wouldn't have had lads losing it and saying things they shouldn't say," he said.

"You couldn't wish to meet a nicer lad than Chris Senior and he has got booked for foul language.

"You look in the rule book and it says pushing and pulling is an offence but they just don't blow up for it," he added.

"The referees do not apply the rules and we cannot do anything about it."

Aside from the bad language, screaming abuse and constant distrust of the referee there was precious little good football to watch at St Mary's Field.

Roman Glass had two great chances to score inside the opening two minutes. Senior made a brilliant last-ditch tackle on Ian Power to spare Tom Coggins' blushes in the first minute, after the midfielder had lost possession in his own half.

And seconds later Lee Cuff pulled off a brilliant save to deny Adam Grinter, who had been slid through one-on-one with the Bridport stopper.

In fact it was Cuff and Senior who were among Bridport's precious few positives to come out of the game.

Cuff produced a string of fine stops to deny Grinter and Power in the second period, while Senior looked assured alongside skipper Darren Stewart at the heart of the defence.

At the other end the Bees' best chance fell to matt Condliffe but as the wing-back sized up a gap at the near post a brilliant saving tackle from Mark Westwood robbed him of glory.

The match was finally decided by a penalty, which was awarded for an accidental handball by Darren Lock.

The midfielder was unable to move his hand away from a ricocheted ball and Doe stepped up to send Cuff the wrong way.

Bees: Cuff, Senior, Stewart, Fellows, Hayter, Symes (Thornton 78), Coggins, D Lock, Condliffe, A Clarke (Wise 68), Evans (King).