Sheffield United 3-3 Blackpool: Match descends into chaos, ending with 4 purple playing cards and a mass brawl

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The place to start out in a match akin to this? The 98th-minute equalizer, or the 4 purple playing cards? The missed penalty or maybe the mass brawl?

There was little time to take a breath at Bramall Lane as Sheffield United and Blackpool drew 3-3 in an exciting English Championship match.

Oliver Norwood scored the stoppage time leveler for United simply when Blackpool thought it had performed sufficient to safe a comeback victory after going 2-0 down within the first half.

After going 3-2 up with targets from Jerry Yates (2) and Kenny Dougall, Blackpool rode its luck with Rhian Brewster lacking a penalty within the 88th minute.

That got here after the visiting workforce was decreased to 9 males after the sendings off of Marvin Ekpitete (78th minute) and Dominic Thompson (81st minute).

Issues acquired much more frantic after the ultimate whistle when Blackpool’s Shayne Lavery and United goalkeeper Wes Foderingham had been proven purple for an altercation which had each gamers on the bottom. That made it 4 purple playing cards within the ultimate 20 minutes with each units of gamers concerned in a chaotic melee at full-time.

“It’s not the scenes you need to see on the finish of a recreation,” former Tottenham defender Michael Dawson stated on Sky Sports activities.

Per PA Media, Sheffield United supervisor Paul Heckingbottom stated: “Lavery has come and grabbed Wes to maintain him out of the best way and as Wes has spun, they’ve each grappled one another and simply fallen over.

“They didn’t appear to suppose something had occurred however clearly the referee has seen two lads on the ground and he’s considering that they’re combating. We’ll have to take a look and see what we do about it.”

“It’s straightforward saying individuals have gotten to maintain their management,” Blackpool supervisor Michael Appelton advised the BBC.

“However when it occurs so rapidly and out of the blue in the direction of the tip of the sport, I felt I wanted to have my say with the referee.

“I did have my say as a result of I used to be dissatisfied. I assumed they [the officials] had a poor day.”