The Goal That Never Was

The debate for goal-line technology was again brought to the fore following Crystal Palace’s 1-0 defeat to Bristol City when Crystal Palace saw a “clear goal” disallowed.

The image shown here is not actually a great image because the ball actually hit the stanchion at the back of the goal and bounced back out.

The goal was disallowed with the semi-official reason being that there had been a “push” prior to the goal (some would argue that anyone who failed to see that that was a goal would be bound to grasp for a valid reason to explain their incompetence).

This doesn’t need technology stretching into millions of pounds… just a decent pair of eyes.

Of course, things like this could only happen to Neil Warnock and I’m starting to believe that they do it on purpose just to wind him up because he’s pretty entertaining when you turn the little key on his back.

“We can put a man on the moon, what? 20 years ago? Time serves of 100 miles per hour at Wimbledon, yet we cannot place a couple of sensors in a net to show when a goal has been scored.“, he ranted after the game.

Ignoring the fact that Warnock seems to have lost 20 years somewhere, he has a valid point.

However, the fact that referees still cannot come out straight after a game and explain, officially, why a decision was made is also another problem that needs to be addressed.

Not for “the good of the game”, not because it will solve these issues, not because jobs, titles and relegations can hinge on these things but for the safety of referees because one of these days, Warnock’s gonna kill one of em!