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Computer says....

Computer says....

Waddie said:
.......no goal, no arguing, no discussion, clear black and white decision!

But to you, me and Aunt Fanny it was a goal, but computer says no!

It's a pity really.
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The rule is that all the ball has to be over all of the line, and it wasn't.

How on earth Browne didn't bury the chance anyway I don't know.
 
Doc Brown said:
The rule is that all the ball has to be over all of the line, and it wasn't.

How on earth Browne didn't bury the chance anyway I don't know.
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Because he was trying to hit it as hard as he could which in the circumstances with several players in front of him was not necessarily a bad idea. Just one of those things that it bounced in the way it did.
 
ernest said:
Because he was trying to hit it as hard as he could which in the circumstances with several players in front of him was not necessarily a bad idea. Just one of those things that it bounced in the way it did.
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He was being closed down, but relatively speaking he had acres of space and plenty of time - he had 2 touches before taking the shot.

The situation didn't require him to just aimlessly leather the ball - he was 12 yards out, rather show a bit of composure and pick his spot.

Not that it really matters.
 
I think goal line technology is great. In this day and age the basic fact of whether the ball crossed the line or not should not be left to an officials interpretation.
In yesterdays case, the ball did not wholly cross the line by apparently 3.68mm.
 
pne4ever said:
I think goal line technology is great. In this day and age the basic fact of whether the ball crossed the line or not should not be left to an officials interpretation.
In yesterdays case, the ball did not wholly cross the line by apparently 3.68mm.
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This is my issue. How can you accurately measure such a minute distance when the line is painted on blades of grass? No matter how straight it looks, white paint on grass will never be a straight edge.
 
Lets give some credit to the Ref here. To be able to judge 3.68mm from a distance of several feet away of an object that is probably doing 40mph is pretty commendable.
 
Doc Brown said:
He was being closed down, but relatively speaking he had acres of space and plenty of time - he had 2 touches before taking the shot.

The situation didn't require him to just aimlessly leather the ball - he was 12 yards out, rather show a bit of composure and pick his spot.

Not that it really matters.
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That sums things up well.
 
Norts 1531 said:
Lets give some credit to the Ref here. To be able to judge 3.68mm from a distance of several feet away of an object that is probably doing 40mph is pretty commendable.
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?

He didn’t judge anything, he didn’t get the bleep in his ear so he knew it wasn’t a goal.

I was on the Town End and to the naked eye it looked in, no question. Like Joan, I didn’t know we had goal line technology either and at the time I said I wish we had!
 
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