"We have a problem in this country with political correctness, and bringing women into the game is not the way to improve refereeing and officialdom.
"It is absolutely beyond belief. When do we reach a stage when all officials are women, because then we are in trouble?
"It is bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have, but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems.
"This is Championship football. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? It is tokenism, for the politically-correct idiots.''
Newell also had a pop at his own club.
"The club has gone backwards off the pitch during the last two years. He (the Chairman) has not made any decisions, and he has contributed nothing.
"Everything he has got involved in, he has messed up. I am not considering my own future, because, apparently, he is going.
"I will not suffer fools - I never have, and I never will. When people give you bulls**t for two years, I cannot suffer it.
"There are players out of contract at the end of the season, but nothing is being done. I am up to my eyes in it.''
John Gregory did not comment after the match but defender Marcus Bignot reacted to Newell's outburst by saying
"Comments like those will stop female officials from trying to make their way in the game.
"Amy Rayner is a role model, and full credit goes to her. What would he have said if it had been a male assistant referee making that decision?
"It's easy to blame officials, and Mike Newell is entitled to his opinion, but remarks like that do not help the game.''