{"id":797157,"date":"2026-07-12T13:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797157\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:58:13","slug":"fifa-no-evidence-ball-hit-wire-on-bellinghams-1st-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797157\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA: &#8216;No evidence&#8217; ball hit wire on Bellingham&#8217;s 1st goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA on Saturday said there was &#8220;no evidence&#8221; to support claims that England&#8217;s equaliser in the 2-1 win over Norway in the World Cup quarter-final should have been ruled out after the ball appeared to strike a camera cable in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p>Norway&#8217;s players protested to French referee Clement Turpin after Bellingham scored in first-half stoppage time to make it 1-1 at the Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of Orjan Nyland&#8217;s goal-kick that started the passage of play which led to Bellingham&#8217;s goal showed the ball&#8217;s trajectory appearing to change suddenly and dropping down into the path of England midfielder Elliot Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Under the laws of the game that should have led to play being halted for a drop ball.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Before England\u2019s goal in minute 45+2 against Norway, the sensor in the Connected Ball showed no peak in the &#8216;heartbeat of the ball&#8217; when in the air, and therefore no evidence that the ball touched the overhead wire and changed the movement of the ball. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gYf9ukfveT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gYf9ukfveT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIFA Media (@fifamedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fifamedia\/status\/2076088395147723022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FIFA though said Saturday that a chip sensor embedded in the ball &#8212; the same technology used to disallow a goal in Croatia&#8217;s knockout defeat to Portugal earlier in the tournament &#8212; showed there was no sign of the ball hitting the cable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before England&#8217;s goal in minute 45+2 against Norway, the sensor in the Connected Ball showed no peak in the &#8216;heartbeat of the ball&#8217; when in the air, and therefore no evidence that the ball touched the overhead wire and changed the movement of the ball,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA on Saturday said there was &#8220;no evidence&#8221; to support claims that England&#8217;s equaliser in the 2-1 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-797157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}