Manager Nigel Pearson believes the FA must take action against the quality of refereeing in the Championship after suggesting his side were denied a penalty and claiming there was offside in the build-up to West Brom's last-gasp equaliser.
City were seconds away from heading into the international break with three big points when Andi Weimann brilliantly volleyed home Rob Atkinson's header in the 83rd minute to score his 18th goal of the season.
But the Baggies salvaged a point when substitute Adam Reach finished off a smart team move although Pearson believes Jake Livermore was offside during the play.
City, who have only had one penalty all season, had two shouts in the second half with the scores deadlocked. The first came when Weimann went down under a challenge following link-up play with Nahki Wells on the break and the second when Chris Martin's strike appeared to hit the arm of the Baggies defender.
Speaking after the game, Pearson had a word on the quality of the officials in the league although refused to blame them for the result. He said: "Livermore was offside by the way. For the goal, he was offside.
"You can’t expect the officials to get you over the line quite frankly. Sometimes I might expect it the other way round but I don’t expect that.
"Again, I’m not going to go down the route of moaning about them, all the FA ever do then is come after me, rather than that I would prefer for the FA to do something about the quality of the refereeing.
"Nothing to do with me, I’m not criticising the officials but I’m tired of reading emails from the MOAS team of the FA but I’ll let our darling FA deal with all that because they’re brilliant aren’t they?
"At the other end, I thought one of them should have been a penalty, the other one I can see why it’s debatable but one is a penalty. If you don’t get them, you don’t get them."
Nahki Wells, who replaced the injured Antoine Semenyo after five minutes, opened the scoring when he latched onto Weimann's low cross after half an hour.
City were then pegged back when Dan Bentley mistimed his punch from a corner and clattered into Kyle Bartley leaving the referee with little choice but to award the penalty - a decision that Pearson felt was correct.
Then came the late drama as City inevitably conceded late as West Brom broke despite the hosts having a throw-in deep inside their own half.
"No, I’ve seen it from another angle and I can see why it was given. I’m not complaining about that at all," he added.
"At the end of the day we’ve been 2-1 up, with the ball, 10-yards from the end of the pitch and we’ve given them the opportunity to get an equaliser so I can’t really complain too much.
"I thought we worked hard and some of our frailties from the other night weren’t there, we worked hard, we were resilient in a tough weather day where it wasn’t easy. West Brom didn’t really allow us too much room in the middle of the park so it was a scruffy old game but I thought we did okay.
"Unfortunately, it’s the same old problem, late goal, cost us two points.
"When you look at Luton in third tonight, we should have beaten them twice. They scored a late goal here, the swings are where the ability to keep things tight and make good decisions have cost us. They’ve cost us again today unfortunately, same players making the same mistakes."
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