Offside

[walsall villain]

Surprise, surprise.
They have instructed referees to interpret the offside rule now which means Rodri would have been offside.

Just read about that. Predictable but so annoying that we paid for their incompetence in the first place.

[Lsvilla]

Wonder if Deano gets his £8k back ?

[Ian.]

It seems they are making it up as they go along to try to fit in with the VAR and no flag raising narrative. It’s an absolute piss poor of a show really.

[baddowvillans]

The ridiculous thing is that the rules already had the line about being offside  "where taking action that might impact on an opponents ability to play ball".  As that event in this case came long before Rodri was back onside or played the ball why did it need to be prioritised in the rules?  It happens first so just needed to be recognised and penalised.  This isn't a change of rule its just highlighting Moss, the linesmen, 4th Official and VAR all fucked up!

[Russ aka Big Nose]

Mings on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OfficialTM_3/status/1354063905513988102

[TelfordVilla]

Who has instructed the refs and what exactly have they been told to do. Ah yes. The rules are now to be used exactly as they were previously set out in law 11. Who knew....

[Risso]

But, but they're only in the league anyway because of Hawkeye.

[Nev]

If only we had a system that could look at a ref's decision at the time, with the aid of technology and a clear understanding of the rules....

[London Villan]

Twats.

[LukeJames]

So Dean was correct about them being clowns. Interesting.

[andyh]

How do they contort themselves into explaining Ollies goal on Wednesday now then?
Apparently, we benefitted from the same rule Man City did, but that rule is now bollox !

It doesn’t matter now, but it just demonstrates how the authorities and rulemakers and pundits and officials don’t know what the feck they are talking about.

[London Villan]

Ok if Ollie wasn’t behind the ball then it should have been offside.

[Brend'Watkins]

Who has instructed the refs and what exactly have they been told to do. Ah yes. The rules are now to be used exactly as they were previously set out in law 11. Who knew....

I don't think it's an interpretation of the rules at all. It's nothing more than a clear misunderstanding of basic English language.  It's the nearest thing we'll get from them admitting that the Ref,' former refs, Var and plenty of pundits got it totally wrong.

[Risso]

They got it wrong, and either just can't understand perfectly clear English "the attacking player isn't allowed to tackle from an offside position" or they just blatantly lied to try to save face.

[TelfordVilla]

How do they contort themselves into explaining Ollies goal on Wednesday now then?
Apparently, we benefitted from the same rule Man City did, but that rule is now bollox !

It doesn’t matter now, but it just demonstrates how the authorities and rulemakers and pundits and officials don’t know what the feck they are talking about.

We CORRECTLY benefited from the law that Man City INCORRECTLY benefited from. Rodri should have been given offside as soon as he challenged Mings for the ball. It doesnt matter whether Watkins was offside or not because when he received the ball it was last played by the Newcastle player.