The reaction from Dijon players was as fiery as the mustard the eastern French town is famed for, following a controversial and last-gasp penalty that denied the strugglers a valuable win at Saint-Etienne on Sunday. After the French league match finished 1-1, Dijon captain Cedric Varrault and another player were restrained in the tunnel leading back to the dressing rooms as they remonstrated with staff members from Saint-Etienne. Striker Nolan Roux, whose penalty in the fifth and final minute of injury time rescued a point for mid-table Saint-Etienne, was among those calming down Varrault, who was shown a second yellow card by the referee for protesting the penalty decision and sent off.
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