"The best thing a manager can say is that he's proud of his team and I was proud of them today. They kept playing away and doing the right things and I thought their stamina right to the end was brilliant as they went in search of the equaliser.
"After they got the goal, they carried on trying because they weren't happy with 1-1."
Gordon went on to tell the official site: "The fact that we matched a team as well run as Charlton and deserved to beat them made me very happy.
"They are a side I really admire. They are well run by the chairman, manager and coaches and it says a lot that we probably deserved to win."Dean Kiely made a fantastic save in the first half and but for that we could have won. We had a couple of penalty appeals but I will let the pictures tell the story otherwise I will be slamming or blasting the referee!
"But I am happy enough with my team's performance to forget those decisions. We deserved at least a draw and I was proud of them."
Charlton boss Alan Curbishley was less than thrilled and I don't think "proud" entered his mind. Alan said: "I will never attack my players in the press but I have said to them that one or two of them need to have a good look at themselves and see if they can improve.
"If they say they can then we have got a chance but if they say they can't then they are not much good to us."
"If we had got a result today we would have climbed the table. We have been on a tremendous run but we have had a hard run in to the end of the season.
"But the players have been great for me all season."
"I am very, very disappointed and I have let my players know it," said Curbishley later to the Independant. "When you have lost four on the spin, you have to get a result for the fans. I want to finish in the top half and if we had won today we would perhaps have been there."