Byline: By JAMES HUNTER
DANNY COLLINS is convinced referee Steve Bennett got it wrong at the weekend - and cost Sunderland two vital points as a result.Collins said: "I am very angry. I don't get too many goals - I think my last was against Villa two seasons ago and I thought I had done it again."Danny Higginbotham was with me, but I don't think anyone was too near the goalkeeper.Collins got up to head home Grant Leadbitter's corner in the dying seconds.Next up for Sunderland is a trip to Reading this weekend, and Collins hopes the Black Cats can complete their first league double of the season."Derby might drop away a bit, but there are six or seven teams who are going to be getting out of it and then coming back down again like we have.""To see it chalked off in the last minute is very disappointing, to say the least. I cannot see why he has disallowed it."It was a good ball in by Grant and I got a good run in.Bennett provoked a storm of controversy when he disallowed Collins' injury-time winner against Aston Villa, meaning the Black Cats had to settle for a 1-1 draw.DAN AN ANGRY MAN: Danny CollinsFellow strugglers Wigan and Middlesbrough both won, however - and Collins predicts the battle for survival will be tight.He added: "We have moved up a place, but another two points on top of that would have catapulted us up a few more places. to be tight throughout the season down there."It is a big one for us and we are looking forward to it."Orpington official Bennett, however, claimed the defender had fouled Villa's England keeper Scott Carson - although TV replays showed there little contact between the pair and Carson was never favourite to win the ball.As it was, the draw saw them leapfrog Fulham to climb out of the bottom three, and Newcastle's win at Craven Cottage two hours later meant the Wearsiders remain a point clear of the drop zone."He was perhaps thinking he was going to get a comfortable catch, but I got in front of him and nudged it in.He said: "We beat them here 2-1 the other week, but they will be looking to get one back over us down there."We have been robbed of two points, and goalkeepers are too protected in situations like that."CAPTION(S):Sunderland were furious at being denied victory, which could have lifted them two points and two places clear of the drop zone.
DAN AN ANGRY MAN: Danny Collins
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