Plymouth Argyle Women head coach Ryan Perks will not appeal against red card

Head coach Ryan Perks is set to watch from the technical area as usual when Plymouth Argyle Women play their Adobe Women's FA Cup second round tie against Exeter City at Home Park on Sunday despite receiving a red card in his side's last match.

Perks will have to serve a touchline ban after he was sent-off during the 2-0 defeat by Cheltenham Town in the FA Women's National League Southern Premier Division at Kimberley Stadium in Saltash last Sunday, but the exact details of that have yet to be confirmed.

He was red-carded after the visitors scored their second goal from a corner while Argyle defender Amii Kearley was down in the box but play was allowed to continue by the referee, who also sent three Pilgrims' players - Taya Pomfret, Charlotte Whitmore and Ella Stephens - to the sin bin during the second half.

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"Firstly, I apologise," said Perks. "It's not something I'm proud of. There was a situation in the game, it was more a player welfare issue. A player was down and the referee didn't wave the physio on. I got drawn into a little bit of a discussion with the referee and ended up with a red card.

"The sin bins to the players is not what we want and not what we expect so we have got to be a little bit more disciplined, both myself and the players because obviously we need to keep 11 players on the pitch to win a game of football and me being on the sidelines also helps. Just got to learn from it and move on quickly."

On his impending touchline ban, Perks said: "It takes a little while because there is a process. There will be a charge raised and then there is an appeal process if we want to go down that route. It takes a little while for it to go through so I will be on the touchline Sunday and keeping my mouth firmly shut."

The Argyle head coach ruled out the possibility of making an appeal against his red card. "Probably not, if I'm being honest," he said. "I don't think it was a fair red card personally but I did swear so I will take what comes on the chin and learn from that and move on.

"It's just a little bit of passion. It was more about the welfare of the player who was on the floor and not getting treatment, and struggling to breathe, and that's what rallied me up really rather than any decision the referee made."

Argyle beat Poole Town 6-0 in the Women's FA Cup first round on November 3. They have already played Devon rivals Exeter once at Home Park this season, when they lost 3-0 in a Southern Premier Division game last month. The kick-off on Sunday is at 1pm.

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