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Daylight robbery
Thought this was interesting
It is like those Irish 3 Mobile MOTM winners….at the AVIVA 🤨
Not all pitches are the same size and that doesn't seem to matter as long as they are within the offical sizes allowed so maybe the line size has to be equal to the size of the pitch so they could be different on every pitch.
"To be honest, I couldn't give a ****, we've just got knocked out of the World Cup."
Be like the 'hanging chads' of 2022, checking which individual blades of grass have paint on them...
My first thought as well... really goes to show the finest of margins in football. Those millimetres cost Liverpool a title, and knocked Germany out of a world cup.
Ha, that's a good question actually - I presume there must be some designated paint roller thingy they have to use?
Think another one of these is in order
Ah here 😂 Poor Havertz
To be fair, he would probably sound the exact same if Germany had topped the group!
I'm not sure it even does though... like, looking at the edge of the ball, to me that looks like it's pretty much right over the very edge of the line. The better top down image posted above - which is from an angle that would actually err on the side of making it look out, since it's from the 'line side' perspective - gives a clearer impression of how far out the full silhouette of the ball actually goes
First angles I saw I thought it was a dreadful decision, but others remind me of this old goal line tech pic:
So marginal, not outrageous I think. I’d love to see the angles VAR saw!
I now have a "stupid" question.
Could the impact that his foot has on the ball here have changed the shape near the endline? Do we need to see this frame by frame?
With the overhead angle it looks arguable, maybe, but from the lower angle it looks clearly over the line to me.
Good point.
Whole of the ball over the whole of the line... surely that's the simplest rule? Otherwise you're dealing with percentages of the ball and percentages of the line.
Didi Hamann sounding pissed off that Germany are out, stuttering his way through his analysis.
Yeah if it was out, there would be blades of grass visible in the picture I posted above. It’s a tiny margin but there is no evidence to say it’s fully out.
I now have a "valid" question.
What is the rule about thickness of the lines? I have never seen one.
Hard to be 100% certain either way whether the ball is out. It certainly isn’t ‘definitely’ out as some are saying. The more images I see the more I’m leaning towards it actually still being in play..barely!
Nah, it's always been a physical game 🤣
I believe it is called the error of Parallax
First time there has been physics on a football thread!?
Gary Neville really going hard with the corrupt FIFA.
ITV clearly showing one angle where the ball is still on the line yet completely ignoring that shot.
This angle does make it look out:
If that ball is in they need to rethink the rule. That ball is over the line and is out.
I think it’s just inside by a fraction
Looks well in to me, not well out. Everyone acting like it was far out man
AVB has titles of note to his name.
Martinez is an utter charlatan in comparison.
Itv are going on a bit too much about a conspiracy here.
They have shown two angles available to them, the clearest angle which is near enough dead on shows that the whole of the ball does not appear to be over the line.
Am I imagining things?
