Just the one player; Bobby, who is five yards behind the lino at the point the pass is made. I don't expect him to catch up. I don't even expect him to keep up. But nor do I expect him to be ten yards behind having had a five yard headstart. As soon as that pass is made, the lino should be moving. The Arsenal defender nearest Mane is level with the lino when the pass is made. Arsenal player is actually moving away from goal (stepping out to play Mane offside in the first phase). Yet somehow, he ends up two yards closer to Arsenals goal than the lino. I'll repeat...Two seconds!
So you expect a man who's looking along the line (crouched slightly) and side on to match guys who are running forward. best of luck with that.
Clearly you've no concept of what it means when one man is watching the line unsure which way the next ball is going to go and one is running into the space behind with no need to check the run. That linesman is facing the touchline, in line with mane watching the ball being played and the line. he's got to be ready to go either direction. So your can't read comment is clearly your admission that yet again you've got it wrong. apology accepted.
You spend lots of time criticising Diego's drunken ramblings in a somewhat pathetic attempt at "wumming" yet you voluntarily do it yourself when sober (Obviously assuming your sober at 8.50am)
Just get VAR up and running properly and make sure the refs are looking for a specific reason rather than what happens in rugby sometimes when they ask 'is the any reason why the try can't be given' (how far back they look is restricted ) as I think that is a cop out by referees.
I wasn't the one attacking deiogs efforts this time. Also you are the one who wants the lineman to make two of himself to stay inline. if the linesman was a mind read who knew that ball wasn't going to be cleared he could run with firmino and stay in line with him. If linesmen did this and missed offsides by being in wrong position they'd be hammered too.
A linesman simply can't call an offside if he isn't sure a player is offside. Since he wasn't actually offside there is no way the linesman could be sure he was. So he broke two rules with that decision.
but he can and he did! therefore he thought he was offside. He didn't just stick a flag up cos his wallet had a massive arsenal envelope stuck in it.
Simon Long gave Mané as offside when onside, but gave Zlatan as onside for Man Utd here, so it seems even being in line with play doesn't determine a correct call from him please log in to view this image
