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Allardyce was furious that Poll missed the incident mid way through the first half and felt that his side where denied what he felt was a clear cut penalty.
"The referee cost us a penalty, Kevin Davies was bodychecked and Graham Poll was in the perfect position, but he bottled it. He knew it was obstruction - Desailly made no attempt to go for the ball."
It is the second time in as many weeks that the Bolton boss has slammed the officiating against his side having recently been critical of Mike Riley's performance during the Carling Cup Final against Middlesbrough at the Millennium Stadium a fortnight ago, and Allardyce beleives that the standard of refereeing is just not good enough.
"Far too many referees are not doing the job properly. I'm up on a charge after the Carling Cup final and I'm here again standing up and saying it's not right. They are not good enough."
Whilst the Bolton cheif praised his players for their performance against the big spending Blues he was critical of their defending in the second half and bemoaned the fact that his side did not make their early pressure count against a side who are aiming to make a late surge for the Premiership title.
"We played ever so well but the problem when you dominate and don't take advantage is that teams will punish you at this level. Chelsea have quality players but we didn't help ourselves by not playing as well in the second half as we did in the first. We were sloppy in our defending - it's far too long since we kept a clean sheet.
"Even 0-0 would have been a valuable result for us but sloppy defending and slopping finishing cost us. Chelsea were always going to come into the game at some stage. This leaves life very difficult for us but at least the performance was a lot better than it has been recently."