No, the technology got it spot on with just a millimetre of the ball touching a slither of the line.
HawkEye works! Or so it seems…
Today the goal-line technology introduced at the start of the season has finally received its biggest test yet at Craven Cottage.
Take a look at this video of Johnny Heitinga hitting a stinging shot against Newcastle United this afternoon…
Goal right? Certainly looks it to the untrained eye, and ignore the off-side Cauley Woodrow tucking away the rebound, but this did not count.
Twitter was awash with people saying the system had failed – the referee must not have received his beep because this looked like a bolt on goal for the Dutchman.
In the Sky Soccer Saturday studio they could not believe it – Chris Kamara also suggesting the system had failed.
But then the replays came in that vindicate HawkEye.
Quite literally a millimetre of the ball was clinging on to the goal-line – leaving most observers absolutely dumbfounded.
But a win for technology as the right decision was made after all.
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