Ronaldo still in World Cup as ‘technology nobody knew about’ benefits Portugal

https://www.football365.com/news/ronaldo-portugal-world-cup-mysterious-technology

Publish Date: 2026-07-03 07:19:00

Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal remain in the World Cup thanks to use of a mysterious ‘technology nobody knew about’ against Croatia.

It sounds like that should be a much bigger story really.

Also, Mateus Fernandes is basically Gazza.

Lip service

All the time in the world for this opening paragraph from Martin Lipton in The Sun:

‘CRISTIANO RONALDO’S World Cup dream lives on – even though he watched the dramatic crucial moment from the DUG-OUT.’

He f**king well did WHAT?! The sodding DUG-OUT? That is absolutely ABSURD.

Also love the understandable yet inexplicable typo of ‘Josip Gvardiol’, Josko’s brother and Pep Guardiola’s non-trademark alter ego.

Do not love Lipton calling a corner a ‘flag-kick’, and not just because of the hyphen.

In great snick

Lipton foolishly did not catch ‘The technology nobody knew was being used that kept Cristiano Ronaldo’s World Cup dream with Portugal alive‘.

That is the The Sun website‘s headline about – again – the ‘technology nobody knew about’ which helped disallow Josip/Josko Gvardiol’s late goal for Croatia.

Mediawatch must have missed this so thanks for filling us in.

‘The ‘snicko’ graphic is similar to the tech used in cricket to confirm whether a ball has been edged by the batter or not.’

Wow. Who knew? Most people, obviously. It has already been used at this World Cup, quite memorably during Sweden’s win over Tunisia. It was also used at the last World Cup in Qatar, preventing some Cristiano Ronaldo silliness. It’s quite well-known at this stage.

‘But viewers were baffled that it is used in football.’

Were they? Really? They do have evidence – obviously just tweets from faceless accounts with a handful of followers – so let’s have it.

‘One said: “Wait fr? That’s actually insane. Fair enough.”

‘Another wrote: “For people embarrassing themselves calling a conspiracy this video shows clearly a touch. Snicko graph spikes at exact moment that player…

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