TONY Mowbray says he has not called for a refereeing inquest after Elliott Bennett’s controversial dismissal away to Wigan Athletic on Saturday, because it is not in his nature.

Bennett was sent off after referee Darren England adjudged the winger to have dived under Dan Burn’s challenge.

Mowbray, and many others, felt it was clear Bennett was merely trying to avoid a collision with the Latics defender.

However, while the Rovers boss was bitterly disappointed with the decision, which left them down to 10 men - and later nine when Harry Chapman was injured once all three substitutes had been used - he said he would not be taking the matter any further.

Asked if he expected to hear from England, or follow-up the matter with the referees’ assessors, with regards the decision, Mowbray said: “Part of my personality is that I very rarely phone the referees’ assessors.

“There’s a process you can go through - you can phone them on the evening driving home after the game if you want, they will always take your call about specific incidents. I’ve never really done it.

“Why? Probably wrongly, but generally I don’t feel as if it can affect our game any more. Can it affect the teams next week by somebody having a word in the referee’s ear if he might have done right or might have done wrong? Probably. Yet it’s that sense of somebody getting sent off in a football match and you don’t get the benefit of it and the team next week do get the benefit of it. I’ve never really chased up things.

“I can moan about a refereeing decision to somebody and ask them to look at it, and yet it doesn’t affect what happened in the 90 minutes.

“So I haven’t spoken to anybody and I don’t feel I need to.

“I don’t know where this referee is in his career path. Is he a Championship referee? I’m not sure. Is he a Premier League referee? Probably not at the moment but that might be an aspiration.”

But Mowbray did explain that he had spoken to England in person after the game.

“All I tried to offer was some advice really, the human trait of humility and communication skills, and that helped I think,” he said. “I don’t feel I need to sit and criticise the officials. After the game when the frustration’s still there you can try to temper it.

“The referee made a call, I think it was the wrong one.

“But it’s not the first time this season and it won’t be the last time this season that we have a little grumble about a decision that goes against us.”