Curse you Fat Frank!...I've got a bet I laid in January...Saints to finish 11th and Rickie to finish the top scoring Englishman...a cool £770. Yes 3 or 4 goals would be very nice indeed!
Chelsea's win means we only need a point from the last 2 games, as Wigan have to win both theirs to go above us, which means Villa woul then be below us on GD, if any of that makes sense.
Watching MOTD. That goal line shout was very close! It may have been just over but impossible for assistant to give that.
Ah well, Villa should be safe in any case. Thankfully this will be (hopefully) the last issue relating to the goal-line in Premier League history.
I think it was over. The frame by frame advancing that they were doing was one twenty-fifth of a second, which was clearly just too slow, because in the final frame shown it had disappeared. It hadn't gone out of shot into the goal, in my opinion, because it never travelled that far into the goal, in any case. I agree with Dion Dublin that it had been cleared and was lost behind the melee of players in the shot. Next season, Hawk-Eye will catch that sort of situation, and I think it would have signalled a goal. Here's hoping for a faultless operational life for the technology.
There will still be occasional "Was it,wasn't it"events. It is possible for the tangent of the ball to be in a position where it is level with the back side of the goal line.On certain occasions it could come down to a couple of millimetres.I expect controversy a couple of times a season.
I do hope not. Perhaps only in the minds of fans who'll dispute the evidence whatever it tells them. As long as we get an end to players surrounding the referee and holding up the game for far longer than any technology would have then that's fine. The debates can continue in the pubs. Of course, there will always be the Hitler line... Well, Hawk-Eye said it was a goal, so it's a goal.
Wonder how a Stoke win would change Arsenal's effort level against Wigan...on one hand, they'll have a chance to clinch a CL berth. On the other, they'll have the complacency that comes with watching Spurs implode yet again.
I was thinking the same. Bad news! Spurs are doing a good impression of us at the moment. Passing it around nicely around the edge of the Stoke box but not really creating much. Too slow and methodical. Still, its a long time for Stoke to hold on.
Strangely, for all of Spurs dominance, I feel it's a case of if and not when Spurs score. Hopefully, Spurs prove me wrong, because I'd much rather see a football team win a game of football.
Most mind-numbing words in football; Stoke operation shutout This could be.....err....tough on the eye.
Made more frustrating by the fact that they seem to end up playing rather frequently at times when no other games are on. Stop making me watch Stoke, fixture-generating-computer!
