Was the ball over the line?

[Shirley]

Its nearly better than the Fa, refs and scudamore having secret lets stop man city meetings.

Apparently these meetings were arranged by letter, an Arsenal FC headed letter.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I love the idea that the entire editorial team at Sky have concrete evidence that the ball didn't cross the line but are deliberately withholding it because they don't like City.

That's football forum logic at it's finest ;-)

That is something I wouldn't put past a broadcasting unit. Particularly one manned by Rags, Dipppers and Arses. I've mentioned on here before that last season against Tottenham, BT did exactly that. They MOVED Zabaleta two yards back towards his own goal in the 'still' to show that he was playing someone onside. They buggered it up because, had they shown him level, they might have got away with it, but they showed a full two yards of daylight. Absolute nonsense! Funnily enough, the graphic was never shown again!!

 

[west didsblue]

Wasn't even 4 inches. Sky's agenda involves showing the incident from a camera on the half-way line and it looks way out from that angle. But the law says that the whole of the ball has to be over the line, which means the full diameter of the ball, not just the bit that's touching the ground. If any part of the whole diameter is intersecting the line, it's in play.

When you look at it using a view directly down the goal-line it's much less clear and, at worst, it's millimetres out. It might even be just in as a small part of the ball at the extremity of its diameter might be over the line. But that's from studying a still photo and blowing it up and it's still not 100% clear. So if it's almost impossible to tell from that, how is anyone supposed to know from one view in real-time? And if they're not 100% sure then they can't give it.

Don't fall into Sky's trap.

Agree with that. I can't see any grass between the edge of the ball and the edge of the line. Odd that there doesn't seem to be any high res images out there.

 

[moomba]

On the match thread they are claiming City fans were attacking the Everton coaches.

Walked past after the game. Bit of banter between fans but nothing out of the ordinary. Then they started throwing stuff over the fence.

Nothing more than that although I guess it could have escalated later.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The ball went out but fuck me the media are letting everyone and his dog know about it.
Even you must be a little surprised how little credit we seem to be getting for what was a fantastic game in which we fought back from 2 down.

Of course they are. They would be doing the exact same if Everton's winner was the same. As I said above, that's the story.

The only media I've heard/seen was TalkSport ont he way home gushing about how we could have won 6-1, slagging off Yakubu and Martinez and talking about Aguero being the best striker in the league. I read a brief match report which was a bog standard early-release match report and this morning the radio was full of reruns of our goals, talk of how Pellegrini might put pressure on Guardiola and the reading our of tweets from our players.

Everton were "the story" for this semi as the smaller club in their big game. We were that club once whenever we had a big game but now we aren't unless we play Barcelona or Real Madrid.

Great. Drink it in.

 

[Centurions]

Agree with that. I can't see any grass between the edge of the ball and the edge of the line. Odd that there doesn't seem to be any high res images out there.

It looks clearly out to me but it's just a shame that he didn't cross it back in from the first row of seats. They've had 5 (?) game changing calls go in their favour from the refs in the last 3 matches against them. Stuff 'em all.

 

[blueincy]

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

That's in. No doubt whatsoever from that. Thanks.

 

[stony]

It looks clearly out to me but it's just a shame that he didn't cross it back in from the first row of seats. They've had 5 (?) game changing calls go in their favour from the refs in the last 3 matches against them. Stuff 'em all.

It hasn't stop them from bleating about the injustice of it all. I fucking love it when karma kicks someone square in the bollocks, and right now Everton's bollocks are stuck in the back of their throat.
Now all we need is a Sterling hat-trick in the final to send the other half of Merseyside and most of Norway over the edge.

 

[cheddar404]

It looks clearly out to me but it's just a shame that he didn't cross it back in from the first row of seats. They've had 5 (?) game changing calls go in their favour from the refs in the last 3 matches against them. Stuff 'em all.

That looks less conclusive to me. Remember that the entire ball at its widest diameter has to be over the line. Anyway, who gives a shit?