Too close to call?

If you can, take a look at Graham Poll's short column in the Mail Online website, in which he announces that the ball was over the goal line when Ukraine played England tonight and that Ukraine should have been awarded an equaliser. Then, if you can, take a look at the ITV graphic used in the story to illustrate Poll's point. I'm sorry, but it doesn't.

That graphic shows a tiny section of the ball is in contact with the goal-line. That means it's not a goal. Now I think here that it's quite possible that the goal was an inch or two over the line, but that ITV graphic blows apart the argument that technology will solve all the problems.
Just as the human assistants are fallible, it would appear the technology is. In this case, television cameras and replays certainly make it look as though the ball is just over the line - not half a metre, as claimed by the Ukrainian coach Oleg Blokhin.
Down here in my office in Warsaw, my colleagues were all bouncing up and down ready to blame the officials for a ghastly mistake. My view is that this is such a tight decision that no-one can be blamed for getting it wrong. The introduction of extra officials by UEFA has probably improved the success rate of officials by a few percentage points. That's good. But there will always be mistakes.
If technology eliminates these mistakes completely, that's fine, let's do it. But let's not be seduced into thinking that television always gets it right.