Alan Pardew bemoans refereeing decisions after Crystal Palace denied win at Everton

Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew claims referee Craig Pawson denied his side all three points after a 1-1 draw with Everton at Goodison Park.

Romelu Lukaku cancelled out Scott Dann’s opener in a frantic finale on Merseyside as both top-four hopefuls maintained their impressive starts to the season.

Palace felt aggrieved not to be awarded a penalty when Gareth Barry appeared to haul down Mile Jedinak, and Pardew felt the incident should have been obvious to Pawson.

He said: "We still almost won and, but for a couple of refereeing decisions which, in my opinion he got wrong, we could have won it.

"Sometimes you can win when you perhaps don't deserve to and that could have happened if those decisions went our way.

"I think it was obvious from where I was standing that [Jedinak's] shirt was being pulled, but the referee and linesman didn't see it, which I was surprised at."

The result leaves Palace sixth and just two points behind London rivals Tottenham.