With all the controversy surrounding the end of City's first away win in eight months, when it appeared that Jordan Stewart was attacked by a Derby Steward near the tunnel, it wasn't surprising that under pressure Derby manager Jim Smith was less than kind in his analysis of Robbie Savage.

"We've seen players for years and years who are very clever at diving and getting penalties but he Savage is not very clever and his penalties become riots."

"He plays like that all the time and it's not something new. We all know and I would have thought the referee would have known that when Mr Savage goes into the box he might take a little dive and that's what he did."

Head shearer Smith then went on to try and divert attention away from his players disgraceful behavior at the full time whistle by saying, "You can't condone it but it's always the same guy. It happened last week at Ipswich and it happens all the time."

City boss Taylor though knew exactly who was to blame, "It was just verbal and pushing but the security got involved after that and they shouldn't have got involved. They're the people who have got to keep calm.

"A lot of people were trying to calm everybody down and every now and then people lost control and it got a bit silly."

When drawn on the subject of Savage's controversial penalty, Taylor said, "Robbie had already been booked and did not want to get involved. My players were just trying to come back into the dressing room and they were half stopped."

The man who started all the arguments decided that he would call Sky Sports Goals On Sunday proggramme to plead his case. He said, "I've never dived in my career. It was a penalty," said Savage on Goals on Sunday.

"My reaction was one of `we haven't won in eight months in the Premier League, we've got a penalty in the last minute of an away game and we have a chance to win it'.

"It is because it is me. I think I'm being victimised. It's getting to the stage where I'm not bothered anymore."

Savage also insisted that he was not involved in the after match incident whithin the tunnel.

"I was not even in the tunnel but the steward said it was my fault for the incident."

"Maybe I've not always been totally blameless in the past but yesterday I was blameless."

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