The score read 1-0 to Bristol City. But in truth, there were no winners after the Championship match between City and Crystal Palace concluded last Saturday.
For the game was marred by a controversial decision not to award Palace a goal in the 34th minute when striker Freddie Sears' steered the ball past goalie Dean Gerken and into the bottom left corner.
The officials failed to see the ball cross the line (it had bounced out instantly after hitting the stanchion), and possibly, the reaction of both sets of players.
The heads of the City back line dropped, while Gerken stayed on his knees like a keeper beaten.
As for Sears and company, they wheeled away to celebrate. But not for long.
But no goal was given.
Not until the dying minutes of the game anyway.
That was when City scored a 89th-minute winner, if only to compile Palace's misery.
So it was the Robins, and not the Eagles, that flew away with three points. But not without ruffling some feathers.
To say Palace boss Neil Warnock was livid, is an understatement. Days after feeling letdown by the officials, the manager still had plenty to say.
"I thought Bristol City themselves could have done something about it," wrote Warnock in his newspaper column.
"I'm not saying that now just because it's my side or because of what happened, but last season I went public and said Reading should have let Watford score after the debacle involving Stuart Attwell. Maybe they could have done something themselves."
Unlike this incident, the "goal" in the Reading-Watford encounter never crossed the line, but that's another story for another day.
And while poor officiating and goal-line technology will continue to dominate discussions until football gets its version of Hawk-Eye, it would be a sad day when science is the only thing that determines if a ball is in or out.
What ever happened to good old sportsmanship?
Sure, football is very much a results-oriented business these days.
But it is also arguably the world's most popular sport, where fans and aspiring footballers should be able to witness something that's fair, something that's real.
Not another dive in the penalthy box. Not another wave of the imaginary yellow/red card. Not another counter-attack with a player down injured (genuinely injured, if I may add).
Referees and linesmen make mistakes. They are human. But so too are footballers. Unfortunately sometimes, that human touch is sorely lacking.