I agree that calls can go against teams. It happens. We have to get over it. However, I was right behind it and the keeper didn't lay a glove on the ball before it went in. Apparently, the keeper said it to Mark after the game too. But what can we do? It's the ref's call.
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I'll re-iterate that I have not seen the footage, but on the night it was hard to see how he missed it. I can only presume that he actually didn't see it, perhaps he was blocked, and presumed that the keeper must have had his hands on the ball. When we were looking at it close-up it was blatantly obvious.
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I haven't seen the show, but some of the comments here suggest that the RTE camera was too far away, there's also a series of photos taken alongside it that show clearly what happened. The Bohs players knew it was a goal, there were no complaints (even from their keeper...), and Heary said after the match that it was a goal.
The rule is that the ball is considered under control if between a hand and another surface eg ground, part of body, post. Its also considered under control during the process of kicking out of the hands and bouncing it - hence Best's famous one on that being disallowed. So as bizarre as it seems if the ball even for a millisecond was between hand and shin/leg it was under control and goal should have been disallowed. Now if the ref could tell at full pelt without the aid of frame by frame analysis i doubt it and it should have stood as there would have been no obvious reason to rule it out at the time.
Awful decision the keeper was moving his hands towards the ball but never got to it before the cork player out his boot on it. The reaction of the bohs keeper tells a lot too.
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