Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock was forced to bite his tongue after his side were again left frustrated by refereeing decisions in a 3-1 home loss to Sunderland.
Having been denied a penalty in the opening seconds of the game and a possible spot-kick later in the first half, the Eagles fell behind when Steven Fletcher headed home before the interval.
A third Sunderland own goal in as many games, this time from substitute Wes Brown, brought the hosts level before Jordi Gomez and Fletcher struck either side of Palace skipper Mile Jedinak being dismissed for two bookable offences.
Already facing an FA hearing for questioning the motives of the referee in the recent defeat to Chelsea, Warnock also vented his disapproval at decisions which he believes went against his side at Hull and West Brom.
But the 65-year-old wanted to keep the focus on his team and not be drawn into criticising Phil Dowd's performance.
"I'm just disappointed for the lads," he said. "We put a really good shift in and I was really proud. On another night things go for us. It hurts like hell and it hurts the players as well.
"We have got to regroup and play ourselves through it. At the moment we feel everything is against us. Football is cruel. I will let you guys describe it -- I just want to talk about us. We were fantastic really.
"It was 35 seconds -- they could have been down to 10 men. Those decisions change games. All we want is consistency and we want top-class refs to get top-class decisions right and it isn't happening for us.
"I have spoken to [Dowd]. I don't want to tell you what he has said. I didn't need to say anything -- everyone saw the incident I was talking about with him. I'm just deflated at the moment, as you can see. I just want to talk about my team."
When discussing his own players, Warnock called for them to show more of a mean streak having told them to up their game after a first half which saw them fail to test Costel Pantilimon in the Sunderland goal.
"We are a little naive at times and there are areas we need to improve," he said. "We needed a few words at half-time. At half-time we changed it and we were a lot better second half. I said we have got to forget the officials and get on with our own game.
"We let the penalty get to us for half an hour and we have just got to get on with it. We have got to make our own luck.
He added on Sky Sports 1: "To top it all, we kick the ball out when their lad needed treatment, which was a nothing challenge, and they kick it out for a throw-in. Really respectful isn't it? I think we're too nice, too honest."
One moment which did show the frustrations of Palace's players came when Jedinak was shown a second yellow card for a kick out at Gomez, with Warnock now losing his captain for Saturday's trip to Manchester United.
"Definitely," Warnock replied when asked if Jedinak's sending-off was a result of his angst. "Jedinak was annoyed that they kicked the ball out of play. He has apologised and has let the lads down in that respect. We have got to go to Old Trafford without him now for something as silly as that."