Albion had to settle for a 1-1 draw in a stormy League One tussle at Leyton Orient today.

Glenn Murray fired the Seagulls ahead in the tenth minute after keeper Jamie Jones made a mess of a clearance.

Albion should have been out of sight at the break.

Instead Scott McGleish saved a point eight minutes after the re-start, poking home in a chaotic goalmouth after Sean Thornton's free-kick had been blocked by the wall.

Albion boss Gus Poyet saw most of the game from the stand.

He was banished for his complaints after referee Steve Cook waved away penalty appeals when Ben Chorley clearly seemed to bring down the goalbound Liam Dickinson in the first half.

Murray had a goal disallowed for a narrow offside verdict from Dickinson's low cross and later shot over in a carbon copy move.

Andrew Crofts and Tommy Elphick also had decent chances and McGleish inadvertently headed on to the top of his own crossbar, all before the interval.

The game changed when Michel Kuipers slipped as he was about to make a clearance from a back pass and used his hand to divert the ball away from an oncoming striker, conceding an indirect free-kick.

Both sides went for the win in a tense finale and Jones made up for his early error with a good save from Eliott Bennett.