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Ball went directly into net so not a square ball.

Rooney was a far better player in his prime.

Kane is brilliant but has a habit of going missing in the big games (Semi Finals & Finals) for both Spurs and England.

Rooney scored 1 World Cup goal in 11 appearances so he's hardly a man for the big occasion either (only 1 assist also).
He was great in Euro 2004 but greatly underachieved at Euros and WCs overall.

Messi still has that touch of class but Jesus I reckon David Beckham could have came on for Argentina at his age and got a couple of assists England were that bad. Can guarantee Spain won't give him the time or space he got late on, had a few moments early in the game but didn't look like causing any harm until agent Tuchel went full on defence mode.

Expect Yamal and co to get the shite booted out of them, a lot will come down to the ref, with Trump and Infantino having a big say there Spain likely won't get much. Spain obviously the better footballing team but Argentina have that brilliant doggedness and dirt and obviously the Messi factor.

Should be a good watch.

Beckham appeared on screen more often than Kane.

Just go straight to penalties.
Spain will make mince meat of either team in the final.

Can't see it finishing with 22 players. Young Simeone is way too fired up. Should be first to get subbed.

England look better down the wings, think they'll win.

Look at Umpire position here. Man knows his job

https://nitter.net/tarakirby_23/status/2076732824946675996#m

I was at at that game, strangely Hawk-Eye screen came up soon afterwards saying "Cúl" so Hawk-Eye was checking for goals back then.

The power of the media has never been so obvious in the last few days.

How I've laughed at the meltdown from some pundits and ex Dublin players, didn't want to know 2 weeks ago when David Gough rode Galway from start to finish. Paul Flynn should be banished from the Sunday Game for his nonsense.

At the start of the match there was an incident similar to the penalty, except much softer, where O Cofaigh-Byrne turned into a Kerry player and fell over resulting in a 2 pointer for Dublin.

Sean O'Shea was taken out of it with a late sliding tackle as he offloaded the ball - no free.

A lineball for Kerry ended up overturned for a phantom free to Dublin.

Scully attacked 2 Kerry players on his way out from the Kerry goalline clearance. At a minimum, 2 yellow cards.

Any of these dodgy Dublin decisions discussed by any of the Sunday Game pundits or any other pundits? Of course not, that'd be balanced punditry.

Any news on the colours to be worn for the final? Both teams have a blue/navy change strip. Will there be a toss for home colours in that case?
Some on twitter talking about Mayo playing in white - could they use the keepers jersey as a registered kit?

Kerry won the toss I believe

Goalie- Livingstone,I presume?

Ciarán Kilkenny.

That's sad. The last connection to the 2011-2013 Dublin Team, which I have always seen as distinct from the Five in a Row team.

Fair play to him playing for the Boys In Blue in fair and foul weather. We were lucky to get him back from Australia.

However, a well earned retirement.

Ah thats a pity, thought there was another go in him yet. What a player! Had a brilliant year for Dublin when everyone wrote him off as finished.

Was Davy Byrne not on the 2013 team?

Was on extended panel in 2013 but didn't make any match day squad.

Showing goalline clearance again, looks over but the camera on the bck stanchion and not in line. so is the rule partially over or all over?

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A goal is scored when the ball is played over the goal-line between the posts and under the crossbar by either team.

I read that as fully over but who knows.

I have yet to see an angle that proves it conclusively one way or another. In those circumstances I think it's hard to criticise the officials whatever decision they give.

Pretty sure I saw/heard before that the ball has to be fully over the line for it to be a legitimate goal.

The rule on square ball is also a very tough one for the officials, especially when it's a from play situation compared to from a dead ball situation. The natural instinct when the ball is in play is for an umpire to concentrate on following the flight of the ball especially in a situation where it looks like a player is shooting for a point. It's one thing to call a square ball accurately from a video or even a still picture but it's a far harder task to do in real time especially when you're not expecting it (like in the case of a shot at the posts dropping short)

I wonder if there would be merit in the rules committee looking at trialing possible changes or alternatives to this especially in play given it seems to be a rule that is missed by officials with a fair degree of regularity. The other option is the VAR route but I really don't think there is all that much in the way of appetite for that. 

Yeah I have always worked on the understanding it's whole ball over whole line

Yes, was always "over all of the line" previously.
The goalline is 4 inches wide. If there's any overhang over even a millimetre of the line, it's not a goal, and I've seen no evidence of clear daylight between the ball and all of the line.

The square ball isn't an open and shut case either.
Was the ball actually in the square when O'Brien made contact with it? He jumps in the air, starting just inside the edge of the square and stretches his arm out. He's 6'3" so has a considerable wingspan. And like the goalline one, all of the ball has to be over all of the line to be considered 'in the square'. To me, while he's in the square, it looks like he makes contact with the ball either outside the square or above the line (thus not considered inside), which means no infringement.

Cora Staunton

There'll be some hype and pressure on Kobe for the next 2 weeks.
It'll be the main news story for every newspaper and media outlet - Kobe's last game before going to Australia.
Could be a repeat of R9 before the 98 World Cup Final.

Reminds me of Donegal v Meath.
And similar to Donegal the non-contest will be no help to Mayo in the final.

Cillian maybe could offer something, but it is some ask at this stage. He is super accurate so who knows

Aye against London

Or if its the last kick of the game in an AIF, with your team 2 behind, and you have a 21 yard free and you want to take the point.

Thats dark 

But true.

Could never understand  that one tbh.

McCurry v Kerry as  well.

McCurry v Kerry?

That last free. Why didn't they work it outside for a two  pointer  to level the game? Yes Kerry got the goal last seconds , but  even if Tyrone  had won the kick out, they would have been unlikely to have had  time to work an equaliser

The one from which Kerry had time to score a goal from ?

Kerry would have  fouled  Tyrone had they won the kick out. Killed the remaining time

38 seconds were left when Clifford won the kick out. More than enough time to score the equaliser if Tyrone won the kickout. With the 50m penalty for delaying frees, fouling wouldn't really waste much time. The kickout actually looked like a straight forward catch for the Tyrone player, not sure how he let it slip through to Clifford.

Lots of similarities between Cork hurlers and Donegal footballers this season. Both peaked way too early.