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So if a linesman isn't fit enough to keep up with the play we should accept his errors?
no, other sources seem more certain though so it seems that most likely the correct decision was made.
Have you got access to these 'sources'?
but it looks like he didn't make an error?
Caporegime
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Those of us watching had to put up with watching Downing, Enrique, Henderson and Spearing, deem it your punishment.
disagree tbh - a goal is a goal.
yeah, watch espn and the other sports channels. Or do you actually have anything showing the ball completely crossing the line?
Which other sources? The pic and gif are the best angle's we're going to get and you can't tell either way.
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You can't compare the offside rule to the goal line rules.. The assistant can only give a goal if they are 100% certain the entire ball has crossed the entire line, as you said he clearly didn't know therefore he can't give the goal.. He didn't make a blind call, he choose not to make a blind call, him giving a goal for that would have been a blind call...
I thought that was my punishment over the course of the past 9 months.
What?
If it doesn't appear to have crossed the line and you aren't sure, it's not a goal.
You can't conclusively say it crossed the line, not a single piece of video evidence shows that.
You're conclusively saying it didn't cross the line without any evidence conclusively showing that it didn't. We're never going to know whether it did or didn't.
What?
If it doesn't appear to have crossed the line and you aren't sure, it's not a goal.
You can't conclusively say it crossed the line, not a single piece of video evidence shows that.
Amount of times linesman have cost teams for not being sure is hilarious, maybe they should give them i they aren't sure as it seems to be becoming more frequent.
but if the ball is less than 1mm over (or not) at the pace it happened at, how do expect a linesman 50yrds away to see it accurately?
Without goal line cameras we'll never really know 100% but all of the evidence/footage being released does nothing to refute the referees/linesman decision.
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So you're saying that if you were the linesman without any replays that you would be able to get the right decision despite there being bodies in the way and you being a distance away from the ball..
The fact is this was a 50/50 decision, whatever he did people would have complained but he was unsure therefore he didn't give it, good on him.
I thought you'd say that.
I'm saying that you can't say 100% either way, so with it being inconclusive, it's not a goal.
All these cameras seem to suggest it didn't clearly go over the line, and we know for a fact that the linesman didn't see it clearly cross the line - therefore it's not a goal.
This is why goal line tech is good, no debate, no messing around, no arguments, computer says yes or computer says no