Why FIFA thinks the Norway-England ball didn't hit the cable, actually

If you ask FIFA, the refs got it right when it came to whether or not the ball hit the camera cable during the Norway-England World Cup quarterfinal on Saturday in Miami.

While the Fox Sports broadcast pointed out that the ball hit the wire before England’s attack and Jude Bellingham‘s eventual equalizer against Norway in regulation, FIFA issued a statement that that’s not what happened, actually.

“Before England’s goal in minute 45+2 against Norway, the sensor in the Connected Ball showed no peak in the ‘heartbeat of the ball’ when in the air, and therefore no evidence that the ball touched the overhead wire and changed the movement of the ball,” the social media post read.

Do you buy that? Is FIFA correct and the Fox Sports broadcast analysis (and countless reactions from spectators across the globe) wrong? Or does this all seem kind of fishy? This goal cost Norway the game in regulation.

People are always going to be wary of FIFA when it intervenes in situations like this. It sure looked like the ball hit the cable to us, which means the England goal shouldn’t have counted. What a world.
in Norway-England?