LYMINGTON and New Milton boss Ian Robinson lamented a contentious penalty decision in first half injury-time as his side's FA Cup dreams were extinguished in a titanic battle at Woking.

Robinson's Wessex League braves led the Conference giants and were also level at 2-2 in last night's absorbing FA Cup fourth qualifying round replay before succumbing 4-2 at Kingfield.

But, with the game on a knife-edge at 1-1, and a tantalising second half in prospect, Cards striker Alex Tiesse turned inside Paul Morris and slumped to his knees and the ref instantly pointed to the spot.

Linnets' players were incensed and former Arsenal midfielder Ian Selley slotted away the spot-kick to hand the Surrey side the initiative.

Robinson said: "I thought the ref's decisions were the turning point, especially the one before half-time, which was appalling.

"I didn't see it as a penalty - he threw himself to the ground pretty quick. You only have to breathe on him and he goes down. But also their superior fitness showed and I've got no complaints, but these crucial decisions always come at crucial times."

The ref also booked four Linnets men in a crazy end to the first period but Ben Thomson drew the Fawcett's Field side level with a penalty of their own after the break before two late goals saw off the New Foresters' challenge.

But, for the boss, there was only glowing praise for what his side has achieved in this year's competition.

He added: "I can't knock my team at all and no one can take what we've done away from us. You're bound to say 'what if?' but we can't reflect or dwell on it as we couldn't have done any more. We planned to contain them for the first 20 minutes and ended up one up.

"Then we tried to get the crowd onside, which we did - I think we've made some friends on the way with the run of games that took us this far. We came to a Conference side and not let ourselves down."