Offside

[Brend'Watkins]

Furthermore...Robbie Savage should publicly apologize next time he is on BT Sport. 1. For getting it wrong and castigating Tyrone Mings for not knowing the rules. and 2. for being a monumental ****. 

[DennisHodgetts]

Sadly its what happens when Captain Mainwaring is ref and Corporal Jones is on VAR!
Why can they not issue the Refs with tablets to watch incidents without having to go to all that effort to go over to the side and look at a tv screen before making it up as they go along to suit the big 6? Issue them with some sort of holster to hold it and they would be in their element as pseudo crime fighters

[wolfman999]

Furthermore...Robbie Savage should publicly apologize next time he is on BT Sport. 1. For getting it wrong and castigating Tyrone Mings for not knowing the rules. and 2. for being a monumental ****. 

A bit harsh on dear Robbie. Yes, he could apologise for what he said about Mings and the laws but he can’t do anything about being a monumental *****

[wolfman999]

The most annoying thing about this whole saga is that we all know as sure as fuck that if it had happened against Citeh, no way would we have been awarded the goal.

[Somniloquism]

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.

Although that definition is closer, I would still want Ollie's goal ruled out*. The only reason the defender is attempting the play is because Ollie is right there. I would have interpreted the rule as if Jack was running with the defender in an onside role, the defender sliced it trying to stop him getting it and it fell to a previously offside Watkins, then maybe onside.

* However we all know that he wasn't offside as he was behind / level with the ball. PGMOL, MotD and a lot of football Journalists really need to have a refresher of the main basics of the Offside rule before looking at the lesser known bits.

[aj2k77]

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

That's what the rule was anyway. They've basically backtracked on trying to make up an excuse for an enormously shit VAR decision made by a muppet.

[Smithy]

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

The only thing that surprises me about this is that it took them a whole week to issue a clarification.

[Toronto Villa]

And this whole waiting forever to put the flag up bollocks to call offside has to change also. Where it has to be the player that is offside has to have gained a clear advantage in the next phase. If he's clearly offside call it. Otherwise a tackle is going to come in and hurt someone.

[Somniloquism]

And this whole waiting forever to put the flag up bollocks to call offside has to change also. Where it has to be the player that is offside has to have gained a clear advantage in the next phase. If he's clearly offside call it. Otherwise a tackle is going to come in and hurt someone.

I thought the waiting was a FIFA VAR directive so not sure if the FA can make that change.

[andyh]

What really sticks in the craw is watching and listening to all the pundits, has beens, never was beens and ex officials  who contorted themselves into knots trying to explain why a terrible decision was a good one, when it has now been confirmed the terrible decision was a terrible decision.

It proves they all know feck all.

[Smoke]

That Referee expert on BT who thought it was a terrible decision during the game then miraculously realised it was a great decision afterwards because "I hadn't realised Mings had played the ball, I thought it hit him"

I wonder what he thinks now?! Right decision or wrong dickhead?

Just as I'd made my peace with yet another travesty of a decision against us, they back track as the reality of what a precedent they'd set for themselves sank in. I'm seething again. PGMOL Cock wombles.

[London Villan]

Lots of experts and past and present refs now look even more stupid.

[AV82EC]

#AbolishPGMOL

[Lsvilla]

And this whole waiting forever to put the flag up bollocks to call offside has to change also. Where it has to be the player that is offside has to have gained a clear advantage in the next phase. If he's clearly offside call it. Otherwise a tackle is going to come in and hurt someone.

And we all know which team is going to be on the wrong end of this....

[London Villan]

And this whole waiting forever to put the flag up bollocks to call offside has to change also. Where it has to be the player that is offside has to have gained a clear advantage in the next phase. If he's clearly offside call it. Otherwise a tackle is going to come in and hurt someone.

Or Spend a week desperately trying to find an excuse for the wrong decision.