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Just saying: they were 2-0 down when the **** I went to school with was on the touchline, but after he was sent off it was 4-4...You must log in or register to see mediaCracking equaliser for the 2-2.
Speaking of lower league madness, I know a Charlton supporter that left their game early.
They were losing 2-0 to Ipswich at the time. He missed two 2 goal comebacks by his team!
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Charlton have uploaded the whole of injury time as a video. 10 minutes of lunacy.
Rangers lose to Ajax to make it 6 out of 6. Played 6, lost 6, scored 2, conceded 22.
Tough group and that's a shocker for the Scottish coefficient.
Tough group and that's a shocker for the Scottish coefficient.
Well if you remember the days of Letraset transfer packs,
there were allyas one or two in them that nobody knew
WTF they were there for.
Napoli had a goal disallowed that would've put them 1-0 up at Klanfield:
His ****ing ear is offside. **** off.
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His ****ing ear is offside. **** off.
If that's the standard, Lineker would've had no hope.
Nice to see them applying the Offside Law exactly.
His shoulder is Offside too by the way...
The elbow's off
Waiting for somebody to score a handballed goal when their elbow was half an inch offside as the ball was played
Likely it'll be Brazil at the WC...
The off side law is now totally useless and destroys games.
It was brought in to stop someone gaining "unfair advantage" not to penalise someone who is faster of foot or thought.
I have always thought that defenders running away from the area at free kicks etc is cowardice and should not count if an attacker is running into the area where the ball is likely to be played.
If you can't defend run away from the ball
First introduced by "Big Sam" at Bolton and now the staple for most teams.
It was 'brought in' before you were born so you have no idea what the reasoning was. Initially it was the third defensive player it was measured against though.The off side law is now totally useless and destroys games.
It was brought in to stop someone gaining "unfair advantage" not to penalise someone who is faster of foot or thought.
I have always thought that defenders running away from the area at free kicks etc is cowardice and should not count if an attacker is running into the area where the ball is likely to be played.
If you can't defend run away from the ball
First introduced by "Big Sam" at Bolton and now the staple for most teams.
I entirely agree that it would be an improvement if defenders running away from goal counted as being on the goal line so you couldn't be caught offside accidentally. Apart from anything else it would make the assistant refs' task much easier.
I am very confident that the "reasoning" then of
the measure of being offside was in the feet
and not the inch
At the very least it had visible to the human eye in real time
We are measuring offsides in football matches,
not etching channels in an ASIC rhat fits on my fingernail.
That's a spurious argument because I can show you many examples of players being given offside when metres onside and vice versa. The rule as written is impossible to enforce properly by human eyesight alone. If it is being judged by technology then you either enforce it as written or change it.
There are virtually no interesting CL games tonight for the neutral.
Milan v Salzburg is almost the only one that matters, barring some teams fighting for Europa.
Milan v Salzburg is almost the only one that matters, barring some teams fighting for Europa.
I am going disagree quite strongly with this. Offside as a law jogged along quite nicely until the introduction of VAR with linesman getting the vast majority of decisions correct as they continue to do in the EFL and many other leagues around the world. Yes they occasionally got a decision wrong, but I am not sure that VAR doesn't still get decisions wrong its just that we have been conditioned by the media and particularly by ex refs in the media that var is never wrong.
I do agree that the law needs to be changed as offside should be about the attacking player gaining an advantage by being ahead of the last defender, no forward has genuinely gained what most fans would see as an advantage by having a toe or an elbow clear of the last man. No fan I know believes that current forensic analysis that sees goals like Kanes last week or the Napoli goal last night being disallowed is an improvement on what happened before VAR.
I wonder how many more goals are ruled out now by VAR than were before the tech was available.
The ridiculous non flagging for offsides like Kanes last night are equally stupid, one day a player will be injured as a result of an obvious flag not being raised.
Benfica doing a draw with Maccabi while PSG spank
Juventus would have some comedy value methinks.
