England won a hard-fought 2-1 battle over Norway in extra time, but the game probably should not have even gotten that far.
Jude Bellingham was excellent and had a brace, but his goal athe 45’+2’ mark probably should not have counted as the ball struck a cable for the overhead camera in the moments before the goal. Per FIFA rules, the play should have been blown dead.
As we know now, it was not, Bellingham eventually scored, and there will be a nation of angry folks stewing about it. AS journalist Joe Brennan broke the play down this way:
As the ball came down from a Norway free-kick to be controlled by an England player, it hit the overhead camera wire that suspends the spider-cam above the pitch.
According to the rules and confirmed by former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg, an ******* yst for FOX Sports, this should have constituted an automatic restart from the referee: “VAR can interfere if that contact of the ball on the camera cable is part of a reviewable incident, an attacking phase of play leading to a goal is part of the var reviewable incident. it should have been picked up the VAR.”
Jude Bellingham was excellent and had a brace, but his goal athe 45’+2’ mark probably should not have counted as the ball struck a cable for the overhead camera in the moments before the goal. Per FIFA rules, the play should have been blown dead.
As we know now, it was not, Bellingham eventually scored, and there will be a nation of angry folks stewing about it. AS journalist Joe Brennan broke the play down this way:
As the ball came down from a Norway free-kick to be controlled by an England player, it hit the overhead camera wire that suspends the spider-cam above the pitch.
According to the rules and confirmed by former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg, an ******* yst for FOX Sports, this should have constituted an automatic restart from the referee: “VAR can interfere if that contact of the ball on the camera cable is part of a reviewable incident, an attacking phase of play leading to a goal is part of the var reviewable incident. it should have been picked up the VAR.”
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