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Unread 26-02-2016, 12:05 PM
King Eric
 
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It is easy to look at it in a slow frame by frame and from different angles with cameras in different positions, but ...... The Ref and linesman had one look at one angle and the players running back were practically in the middle near the penalty spot, the goaly is in the middle of the goals, Mata over to the left of the area and he dinked the ball into the left hand corner of the net. It is likely that either the Ref didn't think they were blocking the goalies eye sight due to the route the ball took, or the linesman didn't flag them as being offside and just made a mistake, human error. Just why this had to be re-visited I don't know, it might happen again and the same decision might be made, or not.
 
Unread 26-02-2016, 12:43 PM
puressence
 
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City's goal against Everton the one where it went a foot out was scrutinised like this
 
Unread 26-02-2016, 01:28 PM
Billy Redface
 
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Originally Posted by Cream
As armers points out, they made the rule so convoluted that the obvious is no longer so obvious to the referees. Except now it is, thanks to MUFC.
Nah. It's not that convoluted. If they're considered to be interfering/active from an offside position, then they're offside. We made a wall to deliberately bloke his view. Pretty blatant imo.

Pure, what has an error from the linesman got to do with this? The conversation is sparked by the law being a grey area.
 
Unread 26-02-2016, 01:34 PM
Ethers
 
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Were they interfering/blocking his view at the moment the ball was struck? Not sure.

They certainly were a second or two earlier but where you're standing when the ball isn't in play is irrelevant. Which makes the PL's reference to number 21 looking at the keeper pretty peculiar
 
Unread 26-02-2016, 02:02 PM
utd99
 
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This is nothing to with us per se, they just don't want every team doing it next weekend. Refs are shit as it is without trying to make sense of this mess.
 
Unread 26-02-2016, 02:10 PM
ryanMUFC
 
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Pretty sure City got through to the league cup final with an offside goal and a goal that went out of play. 0 £#%&!s given.

United however.
 
Unread 26-02-2016, 03:06 PM
jem
 
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the sad fact is that three united players were trying to interfere with play, but weren't even standing in the right place.
 
Unread 26-02-2016, 03:31 PM
Grimson
 
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Originally Posted by Rorschach
This one looked like it might be copied by other teams, creating a precedent. We did, after all, nick it from the Lilliputians.

I remember a few years ago, there was a bit of a fuss after a tweak to the offside law which saw Fat Sam's team placing players in what would normally have been considered clearly offside positions at free kicks, forcing the defending team to cover much deeper & leading to all sorts of confusion. It went on for a short while before clarification was issued.

This one seems to have been nipped in the bud a bit quicker.

So it goes.
Why didn't the defenders just leave them offside? As far as I know, there's no 'tweak' that allows players clearly offside to score goals.

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Were they interfering/blocking his view at the moment the ball was struck? Not sure.
Yeah, they were. Not by much, and I doubt he'd have saved it anyway....

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