As Dundalk pay the penalty, it's time to give refs a second look

There were no, what you might call, GLT-edged chances at the Aviva Stadium AKA the Dublin Arena AKA Lansdowne Road on Wednesday night.
As Dundalk pay the penalty, it's time to give refs a second look

That is to say, there was no occasion for Goal Line Technology to be activated for the first time in an Irish stadium as the Dundalk-Legia Warsaw qualifier passed off without that kind of incident.

But not, of course, without much uproar occasioned by the controversy which, with the fabled ball-over-the-line talking point now consigned to history by the appliance of science, has probably taken over as the single most divisive issue arising from interpretation of the rules of the game: What, precisely, constitutes a handball offence meriting the punishment of a penalty?

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