The only fan-forum thing is that this incident was where an AR flagged offside a City player who wasn't offside, thus stopping a promising attack. It's certainly not the first time that's happened to City this season. I don't know how often it happens to other teams, because I don't watch their games live (including on TV) and MotD don't usually show such incidents.
The point is that ARs in the EPL have always got some offside decisions wrong, but they now have a mechanism that means the player they think is offside need not be penalised until it's been proved, and they are not using it. Teams are getting goals disallowed on marginal (and maybe technically flawed) offside decisions, but the same technology is not being used when ARs get marginal decisions wrong (and penalise the attacker) - and the AR then stops so if the ref did allow play to continue they are out of position.
I don't know how this operates in other leagues, or whether this is just the EPL/PGMOL making up its own rules, and I don't know if there is any comeback for these wrong decisions. I'm sure as an AR I must get some offsides wrong, but the attacker gets the benefit of any doubt I have, and I'll never know. Are PGMOL actually telling ARs who get these wrong that they were right to have flagged because they thought it was the right decision? Do they keep a list of SPABARs - SPA by AR?
The point is that ARs in the EPL have always got some offside decisions wrong, but they now have a mechanism that means the player they think is offside need not be penalised until it's been proved, and they are not using it. Teams are getting goals disallowed on marginal (and maybe technically flawed) offside decisions, but the same technology is not being used when ARs get marginal decisions wrong (and penalise the attacker) - and the AR then stops so if the ref did allow play to continue they are out of position.
I don't know how this operates in other leagues, or whether this is just the EPL/PGMOL making up its own rules, and I don't know if there is any comeback for these wrong decisions. I'm sure as an AR I must get some offsides wrong, but the attacker gets the benefit of any doubt I have, and I'll never know. Are PGMOL actually telling ARs who get these wrong that they were right to have flagged because they thought it was the right decision? Do they keep a list of SPABARs - SPA by AR?