If you're offside, you're offside. I couldn't give a fig by how much it is.
Quote from: Lastfootstamper on January 06, 2021, 03:51:04 PMIf you're offside, you're offside. I couldn't give a fig by how much it is.But the only way this can possibly work is if we go back to the situation where a player is only offside if there is a clear gap between the striker and the last defender - there isn't, and can never be, a precise moment where a pass is made to the degree the current system requires and is interpreting the offside law. It almost becomes a philosophical debate at that point!
The original point of the offside rule was to stop attackers gaining an advantage and it still should be. If part of the attacker's body is offside by a margin which can only be determined by use of geometry and 5 minutes of match time and all based on a guess as to when the ball was actually kicked; he surely can't be reasonably said to have gained any advantage. If they think a decision is wrong and ask the pitch referee to look at it again and HE decides what happens next, I can just about see its merits (Pogba's dive would have been exposed etc.). That really is the limit of its use though. Otherwise fuck the whole thing off.
Hmmmmm.Clattenberg talking about shit refereeing decisions!I think my Ironyometer has just exploded.