NEIL Lennon has risked getting himself in hot water with the FA by branding referee Darren Drysdale’s performance in his side’s 4-3 defeat at QPR as “biased.”

The Wanderers boss tore into the Lincolnshire official after being asked what he thought of his impact on the game at Loftus Road.

The Whites, who drop into the Championship’s bottom three, had thrown away a two-goal lead before pulling the game back to 3-3 and then losing a fourth goal 30 seconds before the end.

“He was a disgrace, and absolute disgrace,” Lennon raged after the final whistle. “I have not seen a more biased performance from a referee in a long, long time. He gave QPR everything he possibly could.

“I was so frustrated with that.

“Any 50-50 challenges the free kick would look like it was going to us and he invented a free-kick for QPR.

“It was a really frustrating performance from him from my point of view anyway.

“You are asking me the question, so you can see it as well.”

Lennon has previously locked horns with Drysdale, taking his complaints to Foot ball League chief David Allinson after a 4-2 defeat at Rotherham last season.

He was especially infuriated by a first-half challenge from Paul Konchesky on full-back Francesco Pisano, which forced the Italian off the pitch at half time.

Asked whether Konchesky should have been given at least a yellow card, the Northern Irishman fumed: “I don’t know how he hasn’t – the linesman was stood right there.

“I don’t want to see players sent off but it’s reckless. We had to take him off at half time because he had a sore foot.

“I think he will be okay but how the officials don’t see it I do not know.”

Lennon’s words may well be picked up by the FA’s disciplinary panel but asked whether he wanted to qualify the accusation of bias, he stuck to his guns.

“I don’t mind using those words after a performance like that because it was there for everyone to see,” he said.

“I thought he was really poor. I don’t know what he was seeing out there.

“He missed so much and he gave QPR so much and it’s bewildering.”

Lennon has kept his nose clean since being sent off in his first game in charge of Wanderers against Birmingham City a little under a year ago for encroaching on to the field of play.

On that occasion he was sent a letter from the FA and warned against his future conduct.