Terry Angus scored a late equaliser to earn ten-man Fulham a replay at Second Division Shrewsbury Town on a dramatic afternoon at Craven Cottage.
Angus touched home a shot from his central defensive partner Mark Blake with seven minutes left to keep the Whites in the Cup and set up a replay at Gay Meadow a week on Tuesday. It was the least Ian Branfoot’s battlers deserved having played more than sixty minutes a man down after referee Graham Pooley dismissed Gary Brazil for dissent after the forward took issue with an errant offside flag.
The referee quickly became even more unpopular with the home faithful when he failed to award what looked like a stonewall spot-kick five minutes later when Mike Conroy was brought down in the box by Mark Taylor. Shrewsbury took the lead on the hour when the home defence failed to deal with Chris Withe’s free-kick and Paul Evans impudently chipped Tony Lange.
FULHAM: Lange; Jupp, Herrera, Marshall (Moore 72), Angus, Blake, Thomas, Morgan, Bolt (Hamill 72), Brazil, Conroy (Cusack 45).
SENT OFF: Brazil (28).
GOAL: Angus (83).
REFEREE: Graham Pooley (Bishop’s Stortford).Â
ATTENDANCE: 7,265.
