Just as after Sunday’s Premiership game against Wigan, Arsenal’s opponents ended up fuming that poor officiating had aided Arsene Wenger’s team.

Gary Speed complained that all the major contentious decisions went Arsenal’s way, including a sending-off and two penalties.

Speed said: “We never like to blame referees but the lads were discussing it in the changing room that they got every little decision and we didn’t get them.

“It’s a continuation from the Wigan game I suppose where the big clubs get all the decisions and it happened again.”

Particularly unhappy about the sending-off of his Israeli defender Tal Ben Haim for a second bookable offence late in the second period of extra-time,Bolton boss Sam Allardyce suggested Foy “should take a good look at himself.”

Last night, Allardyce, who had suggested on the eve of the match that Foy should not fall for Wenger’s “clever” mind games, ended up complaining that in an extraordinary game which featured a last-minute equaliser for Bolton and two missed Arsenal penalties, the visitors had been favoured by the official.

Allardyce, unhappy that he now loses Ben Haim for a game through suspension, said: “I don’t see any point after a match in going up to talk to a referee because he isn’t going to change anything but, from our point of view, we’re disappointed with him [Foy].

“We’re disappointed with some of the decisions he’s made and I’m particularly disappointed in the fact that when Ben Haim got sent off it was only the third yellow card in the whole of the game up to that point.

“There were three bookings in the game and somehow, Tal has picked up two of them.

“If Tal deserved that then I think he [Foy] should have a good look at himself and ask why he’s done it because if he deserved a sending-off for those two tackles then I’m not a football manager.”