The Derby goal that wasn't

Sir Tokyo Sexwale · January 11, 2006

Having the misfortune to watch Sly over the Christmas period, I was amazed at (initially) how un-biased Andy Gray was. Although his gtrue colours eventually came out after Phil Neville went. Initially he agreed but w/i 5 mins, it wasn't a red. Despite 2 late knee-high challenges.

What really fecked me off was the disallowed goal. They seemed to imply that if that had been given plus the one they scored, then it was 2-2. Despite the fact that everything in the game thereafter would have been different. But the best bit was their proving that the ball wasn't over the line.

They froze the replay just as the ball was struck for the cross & it 'looked' not to have crossed the line. The then went on & on about the linesman's position & how could he tell. He was maybe 2 yards from the goal line. They completely ignored the fact that their camera wasn't on the goal line either - it was probably 2 yards the other side of the line.

Now here's where physics comes in. The parallax effect. If you look at a watch (not a feckin digital one) from directly above the hands & it's say 12.05, it will look like 12.05. But if you move your head slightly it could look like 12.04 or 12.06. If Sly had moved their camera towards the goal line, that would have had the effect of moving the ball more out of play.

Now I don't know for certain whether it was over or not (I suspect it was). But Sly using flawed evidence to 'prove' it wasn't over was just sad.

Rusty Shackleford · January 11, 2006

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