John Fogarty: Tech-heavy World Cup casts shadow over GAA officials 

Most of the bad calls in recent weeks would have been avoided with another look.

Dublin’s manager Ger Brennan on the line at Croke Park on Sunday. Pic: INPHO/James Crombie

Sixty years later, Gaelic football had its Geoff Hurst moment on Sunday. Dublin thought it was over (the goal-line). It isn’t now.

Unlike the Azerbaijani linesman Tofiq Bahramov who verified the England striker’s second of three goals that July afternoon in Wembley, Brendan Cawley’s linesmen weren’t tens of yards away from the whitewash. The two of them, one of them a club referee, were well placed to see it and determined it hadn’t crossed it.