Tony Pulis has claimed Bristol City apologised to Middlesbrough after beating them last month.
The Robins ran out 1-0 winners at the Riverside at the start of last month to give their play-off chances a shot in the arm, and also damage Boro's own hopes.
Adam Webster's header gave the Robins the victory, but Middlesbrough had 23 shots in the game and missed a number of gilt-edged chances.
It turned out that neither side finished in the top six, with City's defeats to Sheffield Wednesday and eventual sixth-placed finishers Derby County costing them, and a six-game losing run ending Boro's hopes.
Speaking to BBC Tees , Pulis laid the blame squarely at their wretched run - and claimed that the Robins went so far as to apologise for winning after Boro had carved out numerous chances in the match.
He said: "I don't think there's anything I haven't enjoyed other than those bloody six games. We didn't deserve to lose them. If we did, I'd be honest enough to say, but I just don't think it went for us.
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"Dani's sending off against Preston when we're murdering then, they score from that free-kick; Bristol City came in afterwards and apologised for us not beating them; Leeds scoring in the 110th minute. I'll look back and have a few sleepless nights about those little things.
"It just didn't feel like the wind blew our way and that happens sometimes."
