Posted ‘just after high noon bells’ 🔔 Munday 3rd March 2025
“OH! (NO!) ANTHONY GORDON!”
It’s dead simple. If VAR hadn’t been used like in previous roonds of the FA Cup, we would have won 2-1 and Anthony Gordon wouldn’t have been sent off and wouldn’t have missed the Leegue Cup final later this month!
It started off so well when The Toon were awarded a penalty at the Leazes End in the 22nd minute when Mintah fouled Tino Livramento in the box— and Isak took it to put us 1-0 up!
Not lang after this, another goal by Isak woz ruled oot by VAR for a clear offside!
Brightin equalised after a defensive mistayk and Minteh ran through on goal and placed the baall beyond Dubravka in wor goal to level things just before half time!
In the 2nd period we just couldn’t find the net az we attacked the Gallowgate goal and then horror upon horrors, Gordon needlessly slapped Van Hecke on the back of the heed and after a VAR check, woz sent off for violent play in the 83rd minute! (Talk aboot self inflicted wounds!)💩What the ‘Hecke’ woz he thinkin aboot? (sic!)
To even things up Brighton’s Lamptey woz aalso sent off not lang after for a 2nd bookable offence!
MEEENIN! Gordon will miss the Leegue Cup final v Livaapoool, giving us even less chance of liftin a domestic trophy for 70 years!
Fabian Schar then won the game in the dyin seconds when he vollied the baall in from close range to send the crowd wild with delight in the 93rd minute!
But then the dreaded VAR got involved and after an agonising 5 minutes the goal woz eventually chalked off az he woz millimetres offside to the utter dispair of Toon fans!
Extra time now loomed and again we just couldn’t find the net!
Just when it looked az though penalties would decide the outcome up stepped ex mackem player Danny Welbeck to lob the baall ower Dubravka and into the net to win the game for Brightin at The Leazes End in the 2nd period of extra time!
From a 2-1 win to a 2-1 defeat! The agony of it aall!— Fine margins indeed!
Attendance: 51,566 (Just 1,000 Brighton fans-but they were very happy at the very end!)
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