World Cup 2014

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

Henry Winter is tragically silent re: the issue so far

perhaps fatally kicked by another monk pre-kickoff

and it is a bit weird that FIFA decided against using the system every other sport uses

FIFA 11 FOR HEALTH <- I am unsure what this means

Readying himself for Howard Webb's first game.

xxp

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

Tennis uses fake image and no-one seems to mind.

kind of hoping at this point that an incredibly precise post-match replay from a previously uneseen angle shows Pearce to have been right all along

what kind of a tackle is that?

srsly

Pat just opining that Honduras are misundertood and the lads are just a bit over-eager