Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink stressed that football is an emotional game and urged people to understand that, in the heat of the moment, an improper reaction may take place.
The Dutchman is likely to face censure for his comments regarding the match officials after QPR's 3-2 defeat at Barnsley last week.
And both Rangers and Rochdale had players booked for dissent during their EFL Cup tie on Tuesday.
However, while he insists that respect for the referee is paramount, he urged the governing body to remember that football is a game of emotions, impulses and, inevitably, human error.
Hasselbaink said: “Let's not forget that football is emotion. We don't want to take it out of the game but we do have to give the referee respect.
“On the other hand, it's not like rugby where someone is sitting upstairs looking at a monitor and you wait until the decision is made.
“The decision in football is made instantly and you have an immediate reaction.
“That's human and sometimes you have a reaction people don't want you to have. When you're in that game, with your mind, sometimes you react differently than you should.”
When asked if he'd like to see football adopt a similar method to rugby, Hasselbaink admitted he was in two minds about it.
He added: “I don't know because I like the emotion in the game and I don't want to take the human error totally out of the game but I do get frustrated at times. I want the right decisions.
“Against Rochdale, I don't understand why, when Chery was being pulled back, that he wasn't given a yellow card as per the new rule. I don't want to see yellow cards but that's one of those things.”
