Stoke manager Tony Pulis has hit out at the “abysmal” and “appalling” decisions he feels have been made against his side by referees recently and called for officials to be promoted and relegated.

Potters chief Pulis has spoken out after claiming “six or seven” games have been directly affected by decisions against his team already this season.

Jonathan Walters had a goal disallowed in the home defeat by Tottenham early in the season before Bolton beat them 2-1 as a Zat Knight handball was not punished.

Pulis also claims Gary Neville should have been sent off in a game which Manchester United won 2-1 before Tuncay Sanli had a goal disallowed as they lost 1-0 to Everton on October 30.

Against Sunderland on Saturday, Lee Cattermole handled the ball on the line but no penalty was given as the Black Cats won 2-0.

Pulis told Sky Sports News: “The thing that we found this weekend is for the first time, people outside Stoke-on-Trent have actually said what is going on there is wrong.

“Don’t kid yourself that this hasn’t been happening in the first two years we were in the Premier League. We’ve had decisions go against us that have been absolutely abysmal, and I mean abysmal. But we’ve kept our grace and just got on with things.

“Over the weekend I’ve thought about it, I wanted to come here and be constructive.

“I think being constructive I’d say we should put in place a system where every Premier League club has a vote at the end of the season on referees, and the bottom three referees should be relegated to the Championship and the top three in the Championship should be promoted.”

However, the 16-strong ‘select group’ of officials already officiate games at Football League level and the FA Cup, League Cup and Johnstone’s Paint Trophy as well as the Premier League, while an appraisal system is already in place.