Controversy erupted this weekend in the World Cup when England kicked the ball over the goal line in what anyone with a pair of eyes would consider a goal. Had the referees noticed the ball entering the net, England would have tied their match with Germany 2-2, but instead they lost 4-1. Who could say with confidence that the tenor and therefore outcome of the game wouldn’t have changed if England would have tied the game? Regardless of all this, we must realize that it is technologically within our grasp to solve this problem. Today I’ll show you a couple of patents I found using esp@cenet that describe technology that could have fixed this mess in under a minute.
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