Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club

• Nickname:Seagulls
• Founded:1901
• Manager:Gus Poyet

• Ground:Amex Stadium
• Capacity:27,874

Wilkins backs Carpenter

11 Sep 2006 - 13:47:09

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Brighton & Hove Albion's caretaker boss Dean Wilkins accepted that skipper Richard Carpenter deserved to be sent off in the 1-0 win at Millwall.

Carpenter was dismissed 11 minutes before half-time for a dreadful two-footed lunge on Felipe Morais, leaving Wilkins with few complaints.

He said: "Technically it was a two-footed challenge by Carpenter and he deserved to get sent off and we had to deal with that.

"I did feel that he won the ball but it was two-footed, so I suppose he had to go.

"Once the sending-off happened I didn't think about it and I was fully-focused on winning the game.

"I was very pleased with the players that played right to the end and got the result that I feel that we deserved."