SAM Allardyce has blasted the Football Association's decision not to any action against Liverpool duo Steven Gerrard and Mohamed Sissoko after he alleged the pair had stamped on his players in two separate incidents during the 2-2 draw at the Reebok on Monday.

Referee Mark Clattenburg confirmed in his match report that he saw both Gerrard's clash with Kevin Nolan and Sissoko's tackle on El-Hadji Diouf and under FIFA rules, the FA cannot take retrospective action against players using video evidence if the match official witnessed the incident at the time,

Allardyce said: "Our procedure has to be seriously flawed. I have to find out all the reasons why neither player has been punished."

Gerrard was cleared of blame by Nolan himself, who dismissed the alleged stamping as merely an accident, but Allardyce refused to agree with that view on board. He said "I think Kevin has a clouded view of this because Steven Gerrard is a friend.

"Because he has defended him it does not make what Gerrard did right. For me, it was still a bad foul and the intent was there," he told The Sun.