Football Insider has heard the latest from Keith Wyness on Newcastle appealing Anthony Gordon's red card in the FA Cup.

Anthony Gordon was sent off during Newcastle's FA Cup fifth-round defeat to Brighton for aiming a mindless push at Jan Paul van Hecke's head seven minutes from full-time

Eddie Howe giving the official Newcastle United standpoint on that Anthony Gordon red card appeal decision – 7 March 2025: “We discussed it as a club. “With the people that we needed to discuss it with, lawyers etcetera. “We felt that there probably wasn’t sufficient grounds [to win an appeal].

Anthony Gordon will miss the Carabao Cup final after Newcastle elected not to appeal his red card against Brighton. The forward was dismissed late on in the FA Cup fifth round tie after lashing out at visiting defender Jan Paul van Hecke, striking him with two hands in the back of the head.

Eddie Howe has explained the decision not to appeal Anthony Gordon's red card before the Carabao Cup final, while praising the winger's reaction to his Wembley disappointment in the days after his Brighton dismissal.