Was the ball over the line?

Everton message board post sums it up. It was made before the game: January 18, 2016, 01:26:49 AM.


"I bet he was sound with the officials missing the 2 stone-wall penalties Man City should have been awarded against us in the last 2 games though.

Swings and roundabouts. We've robbed City twice after a bad decision in the last 10 days, we get robbed the next game."

http://www.nsno.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50129.0

Nil satis nisi optimum
nothing but the best is good enough​
 
Most Evetonians I have spoken to have said the same, they have got away with 2 blatant penalties and a dodgy 50/50 offside call against us in the last two games and agree it was very marginal call that went against them but as is typical it is not fare and is typical Everton always close but don't get the luck when needed.
 
Used to think Martinez was a decent fella, but his whining and moaning are increasing in logarithmic proportion to the joy he is having at Everton recently! I can't stand managers who come out and bleat about every supposed decision that goes against them, but ignore the multitude of decisions they have got...often in the same game!

He's destined to take Everton to the heights to which he took Wigan!
 
Well they're at Carlisle this weekend... and we're at Villa. If we both get through, we could meet again... swings and roundabouts could come into play and benefit one or none of us...
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
You sure?


Look at that photo. Is the whole of the ball over the line there? Doesn't look like it is to me. May only be a couple of millimetres but part of that ball is within the white line.
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Yes I think that's out but it really is only a couple of mm. The ref, lino and Sterling would have to have superhuman vision and be able to see a hummingbird's wings flap in slow motion in real time to know for sure.
 
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acton28 said:
Well they're at Carlisle this weekend... and we're at Villa. If we both get through, we could meet again... swings and roundabouts could come into play and benefit one or none of us...
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Come on Curly Wurly!
 
BlueAnorak said:
Yes I think that's out but it really is only a couple of mm. The ref, limo and Sterling would have to have superhuman vision and be able to see a hummingbird's wings flap in slow motion in real time to know for sure.
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Even with video technology I am not sure that would have been called out. I think the benefit of the doubt would have gone to the attacking team, because the overhead shot looks like part of the ball was still in. So basically I am saying that Martinez is complaining based on dodgy evidence.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
You sure?


Look at that photo. Is the whole of the ball over the line there? Doesn't look like it is to me. May only be a couple of millimetres but part of that ball is within the white line.
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Cheers for showing that PB. I had an Evertonian mate bending my ear last night, who couldn't get his brain around the notion that you still had to factor the diameter of the ball into the equation with the angle Sky (deliberately) insisted on showing. Good to have it confirmed that if the ball was out at all (and I'm far from convinced that it was), it was by the length of a gnat's cock! I can feel a ranting article coming on. Bitter cnuts!
 
I'm glad it was out, even if it was proved to be in, id still say it was out, just to wind up all the other bitter fans haha. I'm very spiteful.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Used to think Martinez was a decent fella, but his whining and moaning are increasing in logarithmic proportion to the joy he is having at Everton recently! I can't stand managers who come out and bleat about every supposed decision that goes against them, but ignore the multitude of decisions they have got...often in the same game!

He's destined to take Everton to the heights to which he took Wigan!
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He's a ****. Navas 'penalty' never mentioned and as for the Sterling one, which everybody in the world could see, I've never seen one clearer. Instead of saying they got away with one like most managers (or didn't see it) he said it was a good decision.

It's not reasonable to expect the linesman to see that last night, so he can fuck right off.

Direct quote from a character in 'The Searchers':

Haw haw haw.

Oh and as for the OP - you weren't on absinthe were you mate?
 
acton28 said:
Everton message board post sums it up. It was made before the game: January 18, 2016, 01:26:49 AM.


"I bet he was sound with the officials missing the 2 stone-wall penalties Man City should have been awarded against us in the last 2 games though.

Swings and roundabouts. We've robbed City twice after a bad decision in the last 10 days, we get robbed the next game."

http://www.nsno.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50129.0

Nil satis nisi optimum
nothing but the best is good enough​
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On the match thread they are claiming City fans were attacking the Everton coaches.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Used to think Martinez was a decent fella, but his whining and moaning are increasing in logarithmic proportion to the joy he is having at Everton recently! I can't stand managers who come out and bleat about every supposed decision that goes against them, but ignore the multitude of decisions they have got...often in the same game!

He's destined to take Everton to the heights to which he took Wigan!
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This for me also.
How they can complain when they have had 2 stonewall penalties not given in our last 2 games, a 50/50 offside call going in their favour and a foul not given in the build up to their goal last night, plus getting away with murder re fouls is embarrassing. Lost all respect i had for Martinez.
The stuff we should have been awarded was largely ignored/laughed at by the media and pundits, watch now the outrage from the 2nd goal last night in comparison
 
Karma is a bitch.

No mention anywhere about the two penalties we should have had against these lot in our last two games against them.

The linesman was on the other side of the pitch so wouldn't have been able to spot that the ball was out.
 
stony said:
On the match thread they are claiming City fans were attacking the Everton coaches.
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Haha! I've just read a bit of GOT and saw that thread. It didn't look like that from where I was standing - which was right by them as they snarled and screamed in whiny high pitched voices before punching said fences really hard.
There were a few things thrown from both sets of fans and if anything escalated it, it was the gobshite police who steamed in making it worse.
 
Don Karleone said:
The commentary for the game was some of the worst I've heard as well.
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To be fair to the match commentators I had, might be different to the UK, but they were pretty straight in calling it a marginal decision, impossible to tell and it could have gone either way.
Michael Gray on the other hand at half time was the usual, the foul on Aguero was good to see the ref play on, although he came through the back of the striker refs can't give every foul need the game to flow.
 
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos...-kick-during-the-barclays-picture-id479058353

Check the photo in this link.
Assuming the ball in that photo of a Leighton Baines corner kick was within the D I'm not sure Mr Martinez has anything to moan about. At a corner kick the ball is stationary and plain for the officials to see - whereas in open play (e.g. the Stirling cross last night) things happen pretty quick. Wrong to criticise the officials in this case. Swings and roundabouts my friend - get over yourself please.

On a tangential point I have seen the stats for the game and they have confirmed what I thought on the night - our players were having lumps kicked out of them all over. City fouls - 5. Everton fouls - 16. One to be proud of Mr Martinez.
 
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