Blazing_Saddler wrote:.geoffwhiting wrote:I've just actually managed to find it on BBC i-Player, and it has to be amongst the most blatant disallowed goal errors that I have ever seen in the whole of my 55 years of watching football. I am truly gobsmacked that a referee and his two assistants could all miss that ball hitting the back of the net.
The E&S still said today that the ball hit both posts, but no way, it went straight in, hit the back of the net low down, and came back out onto the left-hand post. That is a truly terrible, disgraceful, appalling error by the officials that just can't be put right at this stage of the season except by a replay of the game - and we know that won't happen.
I would not previously have believed that such a clear cut goal could ever be missed, and to listen to the Exeter manager, after the match, having the gall to say they deserved the win, just adds insult to injury.
This puts a totally different slant on my thoughts about last Saturday's result, and if this costs us a place in League One, it will be nothing short of an absolute disgrace. :twisted: :twisted:
They did deserve to win.
Maybe as the game developed, but if that goal had been correctly awarded and we'd been 2 up, would Exeter players' heads have dropped and Walsall gone on to make the score more emphatic? We'll never know of course, but Exeter should have been 2 goals down, and the whole game would have continued differently from the actual outcome.