Thus actually bothered me more than the Aitkins try.
He was talking like the ref blowing the whistle wasn’t just an honest mistake as the ref didn’t know it had been dislodged when he blew.
Instead Anusly was trying to say that the ref blew the whistle because “we can’t just wait all day for someone to put their hand in the ball” and “it was just unfortunate Farnworth didn’t see the ball was there”. He even said something like “at some point we need to call the ball dead, we can’t know that someone might eventually put their hand on it”
Wtf, the ball is live in the ingoal and you can’t wait 2 seconds for someone to plant it? Just admit the ref thought it was a tackle in goal and blew the whistle - and because they touched the ball after the whistle tough titties. I could cop that, but stop pretending the ref was aware it came loose.