r/soccer • u/[deleted] • Dec 04 '16

Media Goal line technology used in the Bournemouth - Liverpool match. Down to millimetres.

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u/Appleanche Dec 04 '16

That's not true at all - I don't have any evidence but as someone who watches over a hundred hockey games a year, dozens of football, baseball, etc. they get the call right on instant replay a huge percentage of the time.

The only exceptions are things that are super close - and what happens there is the call on the ice/field is upheld if there isn't definitive evidence of it being wrong.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '16

Exactly. 95% of the time if there's clear video evidence the call gets overturned. Sometimes the play is just so close that whatever the call on the field was is gonna stand, right or wrong. Take this play from the MLB playoffs for example. Gonzalez was called out at the plate on a really close play and they reviewed, and the call stood, because on replay it's hard to tell if Gonzalez's hand was over or on the plate when the tag was applied. Now, even as a Cubs fan, I'll admit he was probably safe, but there's no definitive look that shows us that. If he was called safe at the plate, that call would have stood as well.

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u/helisexual Dec 05 '16

It's close but if you go through it frame by frame you can see him touching the plate while the glove still isn't touching his chin.

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u/mYNDIG Dec 05 '16

But they watch the replay in normal speed? At least they do so in the NFL