comment by Dave The Jackal (U22179)
posted 8 minutes ago
The use of VAR to disallow ‘Pool’s perfectly ONside “goal” yesterday was farcical, as all subsequent analysis has confirmed. Using the mental Stockley Park reasoning, the armpit was only offside because the dotted line they drew wasn’t even vertical!!! I suspect that was added after the event to cover up the clear howler. It was also based on a horizontal line drawn at the Villa defender’s foot ... in spite of images clearly showing his KNEE was clearly far closer to his own goal, so surely that has to be the measuring point?
As for Madden’s (or his lino’s) failure to see/give us a blatant pen yesterday, well it couldn’t have been any clearer. The non-offside was wrong too, altho it was half a yard and far less of a howler.
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It’s the offside rule which is flawed. To me it should mean clear daylight between attacker and defender. If there isn’t, he should be deemed onside.
Measuring people’s armpits, hands and toes ffs. Ridiculous.
Youve either got your opponent covered or you’ve not. If in doubt don’t let him hang on your shoulder.
Ginger ... Tend to agree, but it doesn’t help when they’ve got Stevie Wonder looking at VAR at Stockley Park. Firmino was ONside, even using their own rules.
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Who cares about shoulders or arms being ahead? If your feet are in line and you’ve managed to gather such a huge advantage from just being able to angle your body then the defender never stood a chance.
Track the boots with hawk-eye type technology. If the attackers boot is ahead of the defenders it’s offside
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posted on 3/11/19
comment by Dave The Jackal (U22179)
posted 8 minutes ago
The use of VAR to disallow ‘Pool’s perfectly ONside “goal” yesterday was farcical, as all subsequent analysis has confirmed. Using the mental Stockley Park reasoning, the armpit was only offside because the dotted line they drew wasn’t even vertical!!! I suspect that was added after the event to cover up the clear howler. It was also based on a horizontal line drawn at the Villa defender’s foot ... in spite of images clearly showing his KNEE was clearly far closer to his own goal, so surely that has to be the measuring point?
As for Madden’s (or his lino’s) failure to see/give us a blatant pen yesterday, well it couldn’t have been any clearer. The non-offside was wrong too, altho it was half a yard and far less of a howler.
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It’s the offside rule which is flawed. To me it should mean clear daylight between attacker and defender. If there isn’t, he should be deemed onside.
Measuring people’s armpits, hands and toes ffs. Ridiculous.
Youve either got your opponent covered or you’ve not. If in doubt don’t let him hang on your shoulder.
posted on 3/11/19
Ginger ... Tend to agree, but it doesn’t help when they’ve got Stevie Wonder looking at VAR at Stockley Park. Firmino was ONside, even using their own rules.
posted on 3/11/19
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posted on 3/11/19
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posted on 3/11/19
Who cares about shoulders or arms being ahead? If your feet are in line and you’ve managed to gather such a huge advantage from just being able to angle your body then the defender never stood a chance.
Track the boots with hawk-eye type technology. If the attackers boot is ahead of the defenders it’s offside
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