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Eddie Howe says Newcastle may appeal Anthony Gordon’s ‘harsh’ red card

  • FA Cup red card set to deny Gordon Carabao Cup final
  • Brighton manager praises striker Danny Welbeck

Eddie Howe hinted that Newcastle might appeal against Anthony Gordon’s “harsh” straight red card in their home FA Cup defeat by Brighton but seemed virtually resigned to being without the England winger in the Carabao Cup final.

Gordon was sent off for raising two hands and shoving the Brighton defender Jan Paul van Hecke in the head in the 83rd minute of the 2-1 defeat and is set for an automatic three-game ban. It would rule out one of Newcastle’s leading players for the Wembley showpiece against Liverpool in two weeks’ time.

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Bernd Leno is Fulham’s shootout hero as Manchester United exit FA Cup

In the squeaky posterior time of this FA Cup fifth-round penalty shootout, Victor Lindelöf and Joshua Zirkzee were the unfortunate ones whose kicks were saved, ending ­Manchester United’s trophy defence.

Fulham won the shootout 4-3 with a kick to spare and the visitors marginally deserved their passage, though this was a slog through 120 minutes of meagre fare that was no advertisement for the world’s ­oldest knockout competition.

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Kyle Busch’s victory bid fades with fifth-place finish at COTA

Kyle Busch\\\"s strong bid to end a nearly two-year dry spell in the NASCAR Cup Series ended with a fifth-place finish in Sunday\\\"s race at Circuit of The Americas. Busch led a race-best 42 of the 95 laps in the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, but his No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet faded down the […]