World Cup 2014

he should genuinely be sacked for that shit. Embarrassing

Lol 'he's more of a man really'

pat nevin - "I don't think it has gone over the line. I am disagreeing with the technology. That is not a goal."

Where does the bbc find these idiots?

bring back phil novocaine

this of course hot on the heels of Tyldsley's own marathon session of inexplicable denial re: the rationale for the Uruguay penalty

saying players have aspects of ability "in their locker" is something Keown has in his locker

Lineker all doing This Facial Expression when they cut back, solemnly apologising for the issues with Jonathan Pearce

Richard Keys @richardajkeys
That wasn't in. At any time. Told you this technology wasn't fool proof.

I think he ended up saying Izzy had "stupid" in his locker.

If it's not good enough for Keyesey it's good enough for me.

there's this desperation to manufacture refereeing controversy and break it down to "moments". the idea that the likes of robbie savage might be required to organize their thoughts in paragraphs and analyse formation, tactics, etc. induces utter panic.

what debate pearce you fool?

pearce AGAIN

haha. Jonathan's having a bad night.

He. Did. Not.

Never expected this to be the drama of the night.

LOLLLL 3 nil!! nm the location of those posts...

'I thought it was in Martin'

so is that 3 nil or 2 nil to france jonathon?

Pearce number one worldwide trend on twitter, just throw him under the bus and start scrolling the tweets across the screen

'Martin'

saying players have aspects of ability "in their locker" is something Keown has in his locker

alongside the five month-old ginsters and a poster of lucy pinder

now isn't the time for a philosophy sesh and god knows i am not defending the existence of Keys or Nevin but the problem with goal-line tech is that it is still susceptible of doubt, albeit a degree of doubt most likely to be found amongst the exceptionally bovine, but those were the people that liked arguing the toss about technology in the first people

'Martin I'm scared'

yeah I'm personally speeding ahead on the curve and am at the point of sympathetic solidarity with Pearce's night of blunders

ha oh pearce

I think this beats colombia-greece for least balanced game so far

pearce being an old fool notwithstanding the goal line tech was genuinely impressive. 2-3 seconds before the goal was given, right?

wonder why got is that shitty cartoon and not an actual image tho, seems to be inviting this type of mistrust

glt

i wd distrust the tech more if there was a longer delay cos that wd imply human observation was part of the process?

Mavuba wearing the shit out of that collar.

lol at https://twitter.com/hashtag/bbcworldcup?src=hash

Phil Neville must be happy at least

wonder why got is that shitty cartoon and not an actual image tho, seems to be inviting this type of mistrust

this. without a "real" picture you just nudge the level of contention up a layer

xxp absolutely. naively there's no reason for the hawkeye stuff to take as long as it does. you could do the calculations with a graphical calculator.

'Martin I'm scared'

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Lol

Lol Pearce still doubling down

late pass on shirt convo but while the design is a+ this blue is too dark for france. looks like scotland rfu. i'm confused and angry.

WOOF

wonder if this one was in

Si goood

they wear black on the outside cos black is how they feel on the inside

I think he ran out of cards... hahaha

wait I take it back

Rob Harris @RobHarris · 9m
The GoalControl goal-line tech system margin of error is +/-1.5cm - could the France goal have been inside that?

GTF in!

just flicked radio on in the kitchen, Nevin is fighting valiantly against a storm of piss-taking tweets

i'm really hoping for seedorf to go ham on pearce after the match

apparently Hawkeye's margin of error is 3.6 mm

Rob Harris @RobHarris · 9m
The GoalControl goal-line tech system margin of error is +/-1.5cm - could the France goal have been inside that?

haha at twitter football wronguns rallying around this obvious non-issue in the proud tradition of the 9/11 deniers and mens right activists before them

FIFA only require 3cm. Still, it does seem like a relatively large margin of error