The head of referees Phil Bentham has said a “clear error” was made during Wigan Warriors’ 26-20 win over Castleford Tigers at the Mend-a-Hose Jungle in the Betfred Super League on Saturday.

The Warriors successfully won a captain’s challenge after overruling an apparent knock-on; however, replays showed Wigan scrum-half Harry Smith appeared to pull back Josh Simm, but it was deemed there had not been sufficient contact to award Castleford a penalty.

It was ruled legal by video referee Aaron Moore, and Wigan’s Zach Eckersley went on to score an important try before they went on to win the game thanks to a late try from Liam Farrell.

“It’s important that the sport knows we do accept accountability when there’s been a clear error,” said Bentham.

“We will continue to work, week in, week out, in detail to avoid these errors in decision-making.”

Castleford coach Danny McGuire was left furious after the controversial call and at the time said: “Everyone in the whole ground can see it’s a penalty. I’m watching something different if it’s not.

“Some of the decisions tonight were pathetic. Standard of officiating and some of the stuff – it’s getting worse.

“Bring back some older guys like (Richard) Silverwood, (Steve) Ganson and (Russell) Smith, people like that. At least they had guts about them – they didn’t get everything right but they had guts.

“They [Super League] can fine me and I’ll pay them back a pound a week. It’s just not good enough, consistently not good enough.”

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