How unlucky of our top referees to so often be in the vicinity of crap inconsistent decisions.
Can't they catch a break?*
* something minor, like a stress fracture. Just anything to keep them out for a bit, while they retrain.
2 Apr 2024
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TBH whatever the ‘rule’ is this week, in no sensible world should a player who is stood between a goalkeeper and the line of the ball be deemed not to be interfering with play. Because if we go by what words actually mean, he obviously is.
In fact, I can’t think of a reason why the powers that be shouldn’t simply declare that to be the case so that, in future, 20% of my 20 minute highlights reel isn’t taken up with footage of people standing around waiting for a man in a shed to figure out whether, on this occasion, black might actually be black.
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The rules are a complete clusterfuck. Agreed. The common sense of accumulated Footballing knowledge refining the laws to make a simple but beautiful game was thrown out years ago. So that teams like the Spanish can dive to get an advantage, and we aren't allowed to tackle them. And they can be offside, or handle the ball sometimes, and we arent refereeing the majority of play properly anyway. You can't absolve referees with that. The fact is that they can't quickly and consistently apply the laws in the tiny areas of the pitch where they actually bother. Whatever the fuck they are.
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A standard logo should 100mm longest side, unless the design is square/circular in which case the increased surface area makes it appear overpowering, 75mm wide/diameter should be considered in this case, so you don't look like you are wearing a spacka badge.
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Big logos are a sign of a lack of confidence in what and who you are. All you need is a nice little embroidered tricky tree.
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He wasn't though was he?
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I guess there’s a question of when you would determine that. He maybe wasn’t at the moment the ball was kicked, but the line of the ball is not a point in time thing, it is a line of travel. The player was between the keeper and part of that line. Therefore he was impeding the ability of the keeper to move towards the ball (whether he could have got there or not has to be irrelevant) therefore he was interfering with play.
I mean.. it’s still dumb as rocks. Whichever way the ball goes, if you’re on your feet and a year from an opposition player you are interfering with play. If that must be a consideration at all, there should be a strong presumption that you are. That this goal was even up for debate shows what an utter mess the overlords have made of it all.
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It's not a consideration. Whatever we think about the current laws (and they are a complete clusterfuck), that's not what the current laws and the intended interpretation of them say. Although there is a degree of subjectivity, the intention of the laws clearly indicate that should have stood as a goal. Mark Halsey, a virtual whistle blower around the trend of 'referee analysts' to calmly explain to you why a decision was made correctly, however bonkers and contrary to the laws of the game it is, has provided a three point breakdown to the laws and the intended interpretation surrounding them, and why it was clearly wrong (no reference unfortunately, I've only heard it on the radio).
Now, if you are asking me should it be offside. Definitely. The laws as they stand are a complete ass. But by the laws as written, it was a clear and obvious error. No surprise that the best english officials presided over that demonstrable clusterfuck.
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Turkey set an international tournament record, by being the first team to name a starting eleven entirely composed of made up names.
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Didn't Iran qualify for Italia 90?
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Don’t pretty much all Brazilians have made up names?
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Hilarious Owen Goal.
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Owen Goal of the Tournament for me that.
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I'm waiting to see if Telegraph Fantasy Football awards the Portugueser who passed to no one an assist.
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Keep me posted.
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Everybody has a made up name. That's the joke.
