The sound of around 60,000 sharp intakes of breath accompanied the sight of the ball bouncing back off a post.
Vitolo's right-foot effort from the edge of the area came back off a post and fell straight at José Antonio Reyes' feet.
So it proved as the veteran denied Frédéric Piquionne and Kevin Nolan before half-time, although a long-range effort from Freddie Sears did get the better of him before bouncing back off a post.
Apart from a brief period in the early 1960s when, on the back of a post-war economic boom, the town voted for a Conservative MP and for independent councillors, Labour has always won national and local elections.
The charges date back to a post-election spree of violence in 2008, which killed 1,500 people and displaced 300,000 more.
When he's transferred to a back-of-beyond post in the aptly named Afar, the booth's girdle of sunflower fields is harshly hallucinatory, a golden explosion of clues that the story and its crumbling antihero have crossed a line.
One morning while eating his breakfast, he happened to notice an illustrated article on the back of a package of Post's Sugar Crisp.
The image of the rebel fighter, seated at what appeared to be an antiaircraft gun mounted on the back of a truck, was posted on Twitter by a Syrian activist who writes as @HebahAlhomsi.
Hawk-eye had been used, a little unnecessarily, when Fabian Delph's shot came back off the inside of a post in yet another Villa break; it would have been more useful for the referee to have had the assistance in determining whether Koscielny took more of the ball than the man when he brought down Agbonlahor.
To their credit, Down kept battling and Jerome Johnston was unlucky to see a goal attempt come back off the inside of a post, with Morgan beaten.
Seigal said the campaign has already raised tens of thousands of dollars for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, and "inspired hundreds of 'messages to Jamie' off the back of a tweet and Facebook post".
