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Personally I reckon it is impossible to tell from this image alone. While on on hand it might appear to be on the ground and  clearly behind the line, it can also appear to be a few inches above the ground and clearly before the line. One is what really happened and the other is an optical illusion.

And that's why I am convinced the lino couldn't really tell.

Looking at that I'd say it's probably over. Close one though - whole ball, whole line and all that.

It looked clearly over when I watched it on the FL Show at normal speed. Good call as it turned out.

Look again and try to imagine it could fall another couple of inches or so. it's trickery I tell thee.

That is clearly over the line

But was it handball? Another image needed.

It is actually neither but a conspiracy concocted by the government to give greater credence to the case for goalline technology so they they can spy on us and interfere further.

Flash, what do you do for a living out of interest?

What with your posts about seats by the pitch on the latest Football Manager game and now this, I worry that you might be spending too much time in your computer cellar/lair and need to get out a little bit more.

I'm a copywriter so I'm always online and work is quiet at the moment.

Those sneaky fuckers. I bet Blatter is on on it as well.

The Russian linesman gave it.

Fair enough. I'd probably be doing the same given half the chance!

I thought he ran a pet sitting service

Am I missing something or are people just being silly?

It's quite clearly a goal.

I only have 2 pets (plus a bird's nest on a balcony).

Looks over on that pic.

If you look closely the shadows are coming from the wrong direction. I think this was shot in a desert in Nevada.

I wasnt there and it looks over the line from the pictures.  But there does seem to be about 3 fouls including a blow to the face in the build up to the goal.  So it was 4 nil really.

Who gives a shit? If we hadn't scored 4 I might have been bothered, but as it is, meh.

I believe that the goals should be 6 inches closer to the Stratton bank so therefore it shouldn't be a goal.

Yup

The Linesman was in the right spot at the right time from where I sit in the DRS. Good call IMHO, only onr of a few things the officials got right on the day.

Clearly a goal.

I'm still not convinced either way.
I watched frame by frame in slo-mo on the FL show and it appeared to me to hit the bar, come straight down, bounce on the line and then forward.
I then saw the still shot in the first post as being just before the ball hit the line rather than on the ground behind the line.

Either way the lino couldn't have done anything except guess and given the shit decisions all day from the officials I'm guessing he was wrong.

My take on this sort of situation is that if any part of the circumference of the ball breaks the plane of the goal line then it isn't a goal. You would therfore need a fair bit of green visible twixt ball and line for it to be a goal.

I'm not convinced it was a goal looking at that image.

I thought it was over on the day, on the highlights, and on the stills - by luck or judgement, i think the officials got it right.

They were largely rubbish (again) on Saturday, but some offsides against us were correct (coming back from an offside position to challenge for a long ball etc.), but the vitriol from some around me was hilarious. A lot of old fellas need to learn the current offside rules.

Plus the Arkells side lino missed a couple too. But that doesn't count, they were in our favour :)