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Arsenal legend Ian Wright has disagreed with Dermot Gallagher’s reasoning as to why Antony Gordon’s goal should have stood in Newcastle’s 1-0 win over the Gunners on Saturday.
There then followed a lengthy delay before the goal was confirmed as VAR checked whether the ball had gone out of play before Joe Willock’s cross, whether Joelinton had fouledwhy VAR couldn’t overturn it: “The whole of the ball has to be over the line and you can look at it from that angle and you can’t tell, as Wrighty says, it’s impossible to tell.
“I think that may be the problem with this because we can’t be sure that part of that ball isn’t hanging over the line. So on that basis there is no evidence to say the ball is out of play. That’s how it is. It’s only penalised if the ball is out of play.”interjected, he said: “Sorry to interrupt, Dermot. But the angles we’re seeing, the ball looks out of play. That’s surely what we should be judging it on.
“But when you actually go to it and look at it, part of it overhangs the line. The law says the whole of the ball has to be over the whole of the line. The VAR wasn’t convinced because of the angle they’ve got.
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