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If a player scores and no one can see it, is it a goal? Oxford United secured a 2-1 win over Ipswich Town in League One on Saturday, but a spell of dense fog means that fans in the crowd may have to read the match report to find out what actually happened during the game.
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The match at the Kassam Stadium started in favourable conditions but, as the weather and visibility worsened, referee Bobby Madden brought both coaches together to tell them with the score at 1-1.
The official informed both managers that if the match was abandoned after the 75th minute then that scoreline would stand as the final result.
Instead, play continued, and Cameron Brannagan scored the winner for the hosts with seven minutes remaining to put a big dent in third-placed Ipswich's hopes of moving closer to one of the two automatic promotion places.
Not that their travelling fans knew much about it, as they were unable to see much of anything during the closing stages of the game, which led to chants of: "What's going on?"
Ipswich fans singing 'WHAT'S GOING ONNNN?' after this was the view at the game today