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The Chester youth team boss watched his battling young guns suffer a 2-1 fourth round defeat last night against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane.

He said: "It was a cruel way for us to go out because the referee awarded a penalty with just three minutes left.

"And the referee was the only person in the ground who thought the incident warranted a penalty.

"Even Spurs director of football, Clive Allen, came up to me at the end of the game and apologised because he didn't think the penalty should have been given.

"It was a very frustrating way to go out because I thought we were the strongest team towards the end of the game and I was looking forward to extra time."

Davies saw striker Lloyd Ellams put Chester in front after 28 minutes, but Spurs equalised before the break.

Davies added: "We rode our luck in the first half, but their keeper made a world class save before we broke the deadlock.

"I thought we had broken Spurs with 20 minutes to go and I was really looking forward to extra time, but we got punished by a daft judgement which was far from realistic.

"It was never a penalty because our goalkeeper clearly won the ball, and even their players later admitted that our keeper had won the ball fairly.

"The Chester lads did everything to the letter and they played their hearts out. They did the club proud.

"I just hope we can now go on and improve our position in the Youth League because we're currently only eight points off the top."