It all got a little bit heated on the touch line a couple of minutes after Callum McManaman was brought on as a substitute and then two minutes later was shown a red card for a challenge, which the TV pictures clearly showed that the player was off the floor when taking Brett Pitman out.
That incident brought both sets of players together, and both managements benches as tempers flared leading to the red card.
For the Cherries Ian Harte is quoted in the Bournemouth Evening Echo as saying on the incident that: "It looked like it was a frustrated challenge and a bit of a silly one on his behalf. It was a straight red card because McManaman jumped in two-footed and it was reckless. I was getting a bit of abuse off their bench, but when it was the other way around – when I tackled Maloney – all their players ran in trying to get me sent off. Okay, my foot was high but if you looked at my face, I was always looking at the ball. I didn’t need to say anything, the referee was close enough to see it with his own eyes and it was a silly tackle. If their manager has a look at it again, I’m sure he will know himself that it was a silly tackle".
For the Latics, Owen Coyle has made himself look pretty stupid, by coming to say that: "We all have our own opinions on it but I was a yard from the incident and Callum clearly won the ball. There was no doubt his momentum took him into the lad who then fell over. We all want decisions but I certainly don’t ask my players to run after referees to get a player sent off. The linesman was standing a yard from me and he did not give the incident. He was better placed than anybody, but there you go. Every decision certainly seemed to go against Wigan Athletic. Ideally you want a level playing field and I’m not convinced we got it but that is the nature of football. There are decisions to be given in football. What we don’t need is players running after referees, demanding yellow and red cards for players. The referee is charged with a job and has a duty to do it. Sometimes, he will get it right and, sometimes, he will get it wrong, but I think he has to be left to his own devices without other people trying to influence what his role is".