Thread: Yes. It's a Chelsea fan

Originally Posted by weirddave

I'm afraid it did. I saw the whole ball cross the line.

Where did you see that?

I've watched the televised footage over & over again in repeated slow motion & you just cannot tell for sure. I'm not saying it didn't, you just cannot tell. You can see the goalline for a millionth of a second but the ball does not look as tho, at that point, the whole of it had crossed over. How the linesman saw enough of it I have no idea & that's my real gripe. He gave it straight away, despite Woody's body being in the way & despite that, if it did cross the line, it happened so quickly you can't properly tell at half the framerate even (from the camera angle that was originally televised). Is there another angle out there that shows whether it did or not?

Even if there is I don't understand how the linesman knew immediately to give the goal.

Originally Posted by Beats

I'm pretty sure I posted in the match thread before any utd goals that we were being too negative in the second half and it was gonna be like the last 10mins usually are but for a whole half. ie us defending then booting it up field then defending again and repeat... We needed to come out and keep attacking.

That was largely down to the injury of Bent tho. Darren was our outlet, the player who would stretch United back to allow our midfield to push up. As we now know, Dazza injured his medial ligaments within 5min of the 2nd half & he barely crossed the halfway line after that point. That not only meat that any ball out of defence would come straight back at us but also that we automatically sat deeper. The fact we did not have a single forward player on the bench is what really cost us the 5 goals (well that & the referee!). I would have even been tempted to stick Bentley on up top . . surely anything is better than a striker with damaged ligaments!!