No, Goulden was only sent onto the pitch AFTER the MC went down to the bench. From where I was in the stand, (near the MC) he was counting, then went down to the bench, then Goulden went on. He didn't take part in any play, (goal kick being taken, fortunately) but was on the pitch for a minute or two. My point is that the MC definitely generated the situation.

Thanks for the info, at least he didn't take any part in the game so that is a relief.

Think he was only trying to even things up because, Eagles had 14 men!

No he was on and off in a matter of seconds and the on field action was no where near him so lets hope nothing comes of it.

Also, it was very interesting to see that none of the players came into the big room after the match even though the bus was still there when I was leaving the ground about 5:45pm.

.....nor were any of the directors there when Allan Rowley was doing the post match presentations, so there was no one from Sheffield to respond on behalf of their club.

Thats changed then as I remember an incident at Oldham a few years ago when the match commissioner was stood next to us in the gantry and told the ref by the radio link to send Tim Street off, den the Menace could second that one as I think he made reference to it in his commentary.

Aren't they just wired up for live TV games?

No, every championship game, but the one at the LSV currently is faulty.

This incident happened right in front of me. The match commissioner (Who had the best sun tan I have ever seen) was telling IM that they were missing a player so the decision was made to send on Tommy. IM asked Jock to check the number of players on the field but he ran out of fingers and gave IM the nod to send on Tommy. As Tommy ran on the field me and everybody around me did a quick count and realised we already had 12 on so a collective shout went up to get Tommy off the field. He stopped and ran straight back off again. He could have only been on the field for 10 seconds at the most and was not involved in the play as Sheffield had just kicked off and the ball went to the far side of the field.
After the game I saw the man with the tan approach the third official and apologise. I cant see the RFL punishing us for this one but the Sheffield officials didn't look too happy about it. They were well beaten at that stage and it would be a case of sour grapes if they made an issue of it.
Great performance from the lads and real character shown in the second half when they looked certain to be turned over.