Football Soccer - Switzerland v France - EURO 2016 - Group A - Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille, France - 19/6/16 France goalie Hugo Lloris tips the ball over the bar. France's Andre-Pierre Gignac. REUTERS/Carl Recine
PARIS (Reuters) - When gesticulating Ireland players raced towards Martin Hansson deep in extra time of a World Cup qualification playoff against France on November 18, 2009, the Swedish referee was not the only one to wonder what he might have missed.
The incident that had just occurred on the Stade de France pitch was almost impossible to see for the 79,145 fans in the ground and the 11 million people watching the game live on TV had to wait for a replay to realise what had happened.
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