In 2009, Freddie Sears scored a goal that never was and Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock was left apoplectic with rage as the Eagles fell to defeat against Bristol City. Palace had dominated the game and thought they had scored the goal their superiority deserved when Sears thumped in from close range in the 30th minute. Sadly, the forward belted his effort into the back of the net a little too hard because the ball smacked against the stanchion at the back of the goal and ballooned up into the air and back into play. The "ghost goal", as it were, was incorrectly chalked out and to complete Palace's misery, Bristol went on to win the game 1-0. Warnock confronted the fourth official at full-time and, when his appeals fell on deaf ears, refused to shake hands with some of the Bristol players as the two sides trooped off. Palace chairman Simon Jordan later waded into the debacle by blasting the Bristol players for "cheating" and condemned them for not telling the referee the ball had crossed the line. Warnock would go on deliver his now-famous 'man on the moon' speech when he groaned in despair:
"We can put a man on the moon, time serves of 100 miles per hour at Wimbledon, yet we cannot place a couple of sensors in a net to show when a goal has been scored."