From the 7th floor at the far end we couldn't see what had happened and certainly didn't see the red brandished. When he walked away we assumed he had been subbed but no one came immediately on and only knew when checking the BBC app!
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[Albion] Away enders at SJP: did you realise Gordon had been sent off?
- Thread starter Lady Whistledown
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Watching on TV when I saw ref getting red card out was concerned it was for our player pushing him Silly thing to do Who was it ? Once Gordon was off felt we were in with great chance of winning. That was until minutes later Lampty was off. Could see this happening since his first yellow and thought he would be taken off at half time.
At first I thought he’d tried a delicate little dink and overcooked it and it had gone over the bar.
Was quite a weird technique for the ball to end up where it did and the surprise that it actually went in made it even sweeter.
Not sure the neighbours in the flat upstairs were quite so appreciative though!
Joao Pedro gave him a gentle push
pigmanovich
Good Old Sausage by the Sea
No, the Albion app told me 
thedonkeycentrehalf
Moved back to wear the gloves (again)
- Jul 7, 2003
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Similar for me. Watching on the TV I didn't think it was offside but thought he had missed as you didn't see the ball in the net until the cameras switched to Welbz running off in celebration.
Never seen anything like it. May not have been apparent on TV, but from where I was sat, nobody in the away end had a bloody clue he'd been sent off. Normally, an opponent being sent off is met with loud cheers and mockery, but not in this case, because we were all completely in the dark. You're so far away up there in the gods at SJP, you genuinely can't see stuff. Gordon walked off the pitch and it was barely noticed. I and all those around me thought he'd been subbed (possibly to avoid him getting booked). The first we knew anything different was when people started getting BBC notifications or messages from mates about the red card
Absolute scenes.
You think those were scenes, wait until you find out the result!
- May 8, 2018
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Should have called the club line 0956
- Nov 15, 2006
- 5,615
No thanks, my over riding memory of phoning the seagull line during an away match was Millard, after the blurb, saying “Bad news for Albion fans” pretty well every time I phoned
From hazy memory I seem to remember we were generally very good at home and pretty shit once we went north of the Watford Gap.
- Jul 7, 2003
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- #30
Evidently from watching it on TV this morning he did, but he was in the middle of a cluster of players, and from that away end, located somewhere just outside Bishop Auckland, they’re all like ants.
- Jul 7, 2003
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- #31
Luckily, Danny’s goal was at our end, so we were only, what, a couple of hundred yards away from it?
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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I knew that someone very clever would say that..!
It's the sort of issue where i find "other people" not being too bothered, but it drives me nuts.
@Commander explained it perfectly above...
"I find it genuinely astonishing how bringing in a system that was supposed to improve the game has managed to search and destroy the single thing that makes football the greatest sport of them all with such pinpoint accuracy."
blockhseagull
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Notification on my son’s phone is how I found out .. most of those around me seemed to have missed it also.
I spotted him get the red card out of his pocket and he walked a bit of distance with it but then did not see him give it. All the people near me were confused but a couple of others agreed they saw him holding a red card but none of us saw it raised. As he walked to the dug out it looked like getting instructions but then the fact the Brighton players were not moaning and he went down the tunnel meant we knew. Then we got alerts from mates.
All very strange.
All very strange.
Yep - I didn't celebrate the winner at all at the time. I don't think I'd seen the defender at RCB so Welbeck looked comfortably offside.
Coldeanseagull
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I shouted so loud, I made myself jump!
But our club, and the other PL clubs, and the EPL itself don't give a stuff about the beheaders breaking the EPL rules and seriously inconveniencing fans.
If our club (and the others) cared about fans at away matches, they would have done something about getting the rule implemented.
- Apr 5, 2014
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'Was he ? I dunno Jeff'Never seen anything like it. May not have been apparent on TV, but from where I was sat, nobody in the away end had a bloody clue he'd been sent off. Normally, an opponent being sent off is met with loud cheers and mockery, but not in this case, because we were all completely in the dark. You're so far away up there in the gods at SJP, you genuinely can't see stuff. Gordon walked off the pitch and it was barely noticed. I and all those around me thought he'd been subbed (possibly to avoid him getting booked). The first we knew anything different was when people started getting BBC notifications or messages from mates about the red card
Absolute scenes.
'Get your fingers out and count, Chris'
I got back behind the sofa when I saw Gordon trotting off.
As it happens I was in the middle of the shot when the camera went to the crowd after the Welbeck goal and you can see my reaction to realising VAR could ruin it. It definitely takes the edge of it. Welbz just looked offside because I had not spotted right back.