Sunderland Boxing Day

Its a mile over, a nautical mile at that.

No exaggeration, a legit nautical mile.

 

Then it's a bleedin' goal, what's yer problem...?

 

I seem to recall Hopkin commenting that with Caddis and Mellor the right side is looking fairly solid now. What I took from that was that the left side wasn't so hopefully he's waiting for January. It's probably one of those trying to use what's available situations and if he does bring another left back in we can't say Chicksen wasn't given a chance.

 

This has the potential to quickly deteriorate into a Monty python sketch!

 

I don't have a problem thanks.

People were talking like it was a criminal mistake where we should be talking to the FA.

It's simply a tiny judgment call that happened quickly from 30/40 yards away. Sometimes you just have to be a bit realistic that marginal calls won't always be 100% correct.

 

Chicksen has a howler, hope he improves he wasn’t bad last few games

 

What is the point of even guessing anymore?

The FA need to bring in goal line technology for all professional games, absolutely no excuse for it. Not fair on officials, fans, or players.

We should be debating the judgement call on a penalty decision, not a clear, fair, honest goal that wasn't awarded despite no foul play on anyone's behalf.

Disgrace to the game and modern sports.

No harm in hammering the situation.

 

100% agree on the goal line technology

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1077975906176720896

Looks very difficult to call looking at this

 

OK hawkeye

 

Looking at that I think the people who were saying it was miles over the line have been confused by the keepers yellow gloves.

 

Nothing to do with the FA.

It's the football league.

The PL is a different body to the FL and the reason it's not in the FL is down to cost for each club to install it I would of thought.

 

Officials clearly an absolute disgrace, three game changing incidents completely missed and not giving the goal is just inexcusable. As others have said, there needs to be repercussions for them being so blatantly incompetent.

Anyway onto the game. Thought we were decent enough for a point today, Sunderland were average and we limited them to very very little. Such a shame to give away such a poor goal too.

Defence was okay, caddis had a great 1st half but not so great 2nd. Thought McGowan was great and didn't put a foot wrong. Chicksen was dogshit (shock horror) and NKP was pretty decent too.

Akpan was good, picked up the majority of 2nd balls and his distribution was good. Payne had an off day but still probably should've scored in the 1st half and did score in the 2nd.

Disappointing we played so many long balls as we did today considering how we've played in the last few games but on the few occasions we got it down the side we caused some problems.

Bench is so weak, and it shows how vital January is. Wingers are going to be a necessity to give us a different option.

Overall we were robbed but it's onto Rochdale where 3 points are a must as we need to be beating those sides around us.

 

Cheers. It looked like he did that but couldn’t see it. V unlucky us. Which side was the linesman on,left or right?

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1077975906176720896

Clearly you haven't

 

I would day the ball plus the distance its over the line is 1 ft assuming the ball is a standard size of 8.5 inches

 

What????

 

Disagree, it's sanitising football. I like controversy, it helps make football interesting for me.

Some you win, some you lose. But you will not be advocating VAR if it sent BCFC down that's for sure

 

In what sport?