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After more than three months, football returned to the stadiums of England. On Wednesday evening, the first matches of the "Premier" league were played after the coronavirus break. Earlier postponed matches "Aston Villa" welcomed "Sheffield United" players in an empty stadium. The quite dull confrontation ended without a winner or goals - 0:0. However, in the first matches, one of the biggest misunderstandings was recorded after new technology appeared in football. At the end of the first half, "Sheffield United" remained without a goal, even though the "Aston Villa" goalkeeper clearly had the ball behind the goal line. The referee showed that his watch, adapted to the "Goal Line" technology, did not indicate that the ball crossed the goal line, so the result remained 0:0.
Is goalline technology social distancing now as well? pic.twitter.com/WV8PfkCzyc - Phill Barrs (@phillbarrs) June 17, 2020 VAR referees in the room also did not react to the situation, and the "Premier" league was only left to acknowledge its gross mistake. "Sheffield" moved up to the seventh position after the draw. "Aston Villa" remains in second to last place.
