Helik and Andersen getting sent off at Reading at the back end of last season. Surely we can’t have had many double reds in recent years??
Yup. The linesman had kept his flag down despite their man who scored being so far offside, he was in a different post code area!
After I’d posted I thought it had to be earlier than 1983. When Norman belted someone they stayed belted!!
Yep, that game when Wardle's leg was broken was away at Port Vale in March 1990, same season as Cooper's sending off in the 3-0 home defeat, and the season before his second sending off against them. You're right, Earle and Beckford knew how to leave a foot in, I was at Port Vale that night, and I can still hear the crack of his leg when it snapped. The other memory of that game was that Cooper went in the goals as we'd no sub keeper and did brilliantly.
Early in the 2001/02 season where we ended up relegated. Alan Pouton was the star jumper, just after 3 minutes in the video. Think it was the same day that England beat Germany 5-1.
Agreed. I was there. I missed the McCarthy 'illegal use of the elbow,' but my father-in-law saw it and said it was a sending off. It was a brilliant performance with ten men, Gordon Boyd fitting in at right back and Neil Cooper moving into central defence. Ian Banks and Glyn Riley were outstanding and Gillingham were lucky to get a point.
Talking about sendings off at Reading, I was at the 0-0 game when Paul Futcher was sent off when Trevor Senior conned the ref. Ron Futcher had been rightly sent off playing for Oldham that season for an elbow on one of the Reading players, which had done a lot of damage. Reading were obviously out to gain retribution by getting his twin brother dismissed, which they succeeded in doing. Dreadful gamesmanship whatever they thought of Ron's challenge earlier in the season. Clarke did not fine Paul Futcher for the incident and it was clear to me for several minutes before the incident that Reading players were trying to get Futcher sent off. Hazell was sent off correctly for Reading for an elbow into the face of Darren Foreman. Best memory of that game - a brilliant last-minute save by Clive Baker to protect the point.