How Sheffield Wednesday boss Garry Monk responded to Lee Bowyer's gripe over the Owls' injury time winner against Charlton Athletic

Bowyer, a former Leeds United player, was angry at referee Oliver Langford for awarding a 95th-minute foul on substitute Atdhe Nuhiu, claiming football was “no longer a contact sport” and that he felt his team deserved to take a point from the clash.

But a relieved Monk, celebrating his first win at Hillsborough in over two months, refused any notion that his side had not deserved the win.

Asked about Bowyer’s gripe, the Owls boss said: “It’s about time. We’ve had quite a few of them against us, so it’s nice to get one for us.

“Whether it’s a free-kick or not I don’t know, I can’t even remember it to be honest, but overall we deserved to win that game and the right result happened. That’s all I can really say on that.

“After the first 10 minutes we took control of the game and were really pushing to win it. We should’ve been at least a couple of goals up but we weren’t and we had to dig deep to leave the stadium with a win.”

The result is a setback in Charlton’s fight against relegation and pulls them to within two points of the drop zone, with bottom trio Luton, Barnsley and Wigan all winning in midweek. Wednesday are now eight points from sixth-placed Preston.

A frustrated Bowyer said: “I’m disappointed, frustrated, angry, because my players gave absolutely everything and they did not deserve not to come away with anything tonight.

“It was not a foul for their goal. One hundred per cent it was not a foul.

“It is becoming a non-contact sport now, that is the way it is going.

“We deserved to come away with a point and we leave with nothing over a decision.”