Romaine Walker was wrongly sent-off after a case of mistaken identity against Uxbridge on Saturday, according to Beaconsfield SYCOB boss Nas Bashir who saw his team finish the 1-1 draw with nine men.

Bashir, who is overseeing first team affairs on a temporary basis, was left baffled after the striker was shown a second yellow card for diving late on having earlier been carded for an offence which he didn’t commit.

Walker, who’d only been on the pitch for ten minutes, mistakenly received his first yellow card shortly after being introduced as a substitute despite not actually making the offending tackle.

Bashir said: “He’s (Walker) black and the other one is white. One of our players who made the foul is white and he booked Romaine, who was near but didn’t make the tackle.

“A few minutes later he went into the penalty area, did a trick, took on one, went to the ground, he said he’d slipped and because the referee had booked him five minutes earlier he sent him off.”

The Rams manager felt the referee’s “nightmare” performance was the only thing that stopped his team taking all three points at Holloways Park after Charlie Losasso’s 65th minute opener had put them in control.

As the match entered the final ten minutes the referee flourished two red cards, one of which to Becky’s Kofi Lockhart-Adams, for violent conduct following a melee before the visitors snatched a late minute equaliser after the hosts were reduced to nine.

“The game was fine and it was a shame it happened because it disrupted us a bit. There was a little bit of a scuffle, two players fell over the ball and all the players are trying to pull each other off,” said Bashir.

“There was nothing in it but the referee decided to send two players off. Just after that one of our players picked up a second booking so we ended the game with nine players. At the time we were 1-0 up, cruising and then they scored in the last few minutes.”

The draw meant SYCOB finished the season third from bottom in Southern One Central – five points above the bottom two – following a turbulent season which has seen three men in charge of the club.

Andy Hurley began the season in the hot seat before Gary Meakin returned to the club for a second spell and following his dismissal Bashir, whose FAB Academy provide players for the first team, has overseen first team affairs.

Bashir said: “At the start of the year the club had problems with no manager and no players as they’d all left with Gary and gone to Burnham.

“I was looking for somewhere to place the academy to give the boys that were leaving a springboard into senior football and it came together. The timing of it wasn’t ideal because we didn’t have time to get the senior players in that we wanted to help the boys, and I think that was the biggest implication.

“We didn’t have enough senior players around the young players and that lack of experience, certainly over Christmas, nearly took its toll.

“If you’d have said to me at the start of the year, having taken over with ten days to go [to the start of the season] that we would finish third bottom I would have taken that.”