With Wexford three points up after 50 minutes during last Saturday's Leinster SHC round-robin clash against Dublin at Parnell Park. The host are awarded a penalty and up steps Seán Currie. Facing him is Mark Fanning.
Currie's effort, while not hit with venom, squirted behind Fanning, who stopped it right on the goal-line. That's what the television replays offered those watching from near and far. The umpire, not aided by an instant reprise of what had just happened, raised the green flag, this after being instructed to do so by the match referee Michael Kennedy..
A momentum-shifter then for the Dubs; two more goals quickly followed and they eventually ran out four-point winners at the Donnycarney venue.
Wexford boss Keith Rossiter was, not surprisingly, incensed at the decision to award the green flag.
"My notion of the rules is that the ball has to cross the line," he told RTÉ Sport.
"I have seen (the incident). It's circulating around the dressing room now. We were three points up at that stage. Both umpires said to Mark Fanning after that the ball didn't cross the line but yet a ref can call it.
"I could see it where I was on the sideline. The sideline linesman couldn't really see it but still he could call it.
"Do we not talk to umpires at this stage? We can talk about it now when everyone will see it on their own screens at home."
But what did Seán Currie see?
At a Dublin GAA media event with sponsors Staycity Aparthotels, the Na Fianna All-Ireland winner was asked whether or not the ball was over the line?
"No it wasn't," was his initial response.
And on take two, he added: "To be honest, at the time I couldn't really see, I thought it might have gone over. I thought it just about went over but obviously seeing the replays just after I could tell that Mark stopped it just before it went over the line."
That said, Currie, who hit 1-11 against the Slaneysiders, felt that 'that' goal did provide an impetus to drive on but it wasn't the key turning point in ensuring two wins from two for Niall Ó Ceallacháin's side.
"It probably did make a difference. I think we were knocking on the door for a while, so I don't think it made too much of a difference to the outcome of the game to be honest because I think we were knocking on the door for goals for quite a while.
"But yeah, a bit of luck. You need a bit of luck sometimes to get over the line."
Dublin's SHC victory over Wexford featured what was arguably the talking point of the championship weekend, with the Model men paying the penalty for an erroneous decision by the officials
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On The Sunday Game, Ursula Jacob posed the question as to whether we need goal-line technology? She feels "we have to be a bit more open to it".
That's not the view of Currie, who was quite firm in saying: "I wouldn't want to see it in".
A case of it not working within the realms of GAA.
"I know it obviously suited me there on the weekend but it's definitely not something I'd want to see. I don't think it would work in GAA. We don't want to slow the game down.
"Mistakes can happen, whether it's on the goal-line or out the pitch, they will always happen. I think it's hard for referees and umpires to make that split-second decision but I'd rather they make the decision on the pitch than slowing the game down and getting video assistance involved.
"It would be complicated. When do you use it?
"There are so many contentious moments in a game where you could argue if you slow things down, things can always look worse than they are.
"But I think the referees do a really good job at inter-county level, Mistakes will always happen, but they really keep them to a minimum."
Currie was also asked about the state of the Parnell Park pitch, this after sections of the playing surface appeared to be damaged.
"To be honest we didn't really notice it," he commented.
"I know the grass was a bit dead in the middle of the pitch. It probably looked worse than it actually was, we didn't really notice much on the pitch.
"It played fine. I think you saw the standard of the game was really high, I don't think the pitch affected that. The weather, I suppose, made a good nice hard surface which made it for a good fast attacking game."
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