Recent content by bloovee

Uproar from whom?

If he "couldn't get to it anyway" it can't have been "close", can it? If the ball is not close, impact on opponent is not relevant at all. An "instinctive reactionary movement as the ball goes past an attacker" (who may or may not have been close to the ball) sounds quite deniable about any...

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Sky were awful (during and after). MotD commentator, presumably listening to the feed, says they established that Haaland was onside and the issue was Fernandez "who is offside and does go for it - but he's nowhere near it". So how close is "close"? Merely attempting to play the ball is not...

I think I'm saying I'm not that bothered.

If Enzo was right there next to a defender he wouldn't have been in an offside position...

I've complained often enough about referees getting in the way of attacks and acting as an extra defender. Getting in the way of clearances is just as bad. But I did wonder, in the grand scheme of sh..housery, whether a team down to 10 men might like to relieve the pressure by aiming the ball at...

Correct. Once Haaland is shown to be in an onside position, the only argument is interpretation of whether Enzo is clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent We've had plenty of instances where it's been agreed that merely wondering about what an...

Enzo's action hardly in the same category as Rashford's stepovers... https://www.facebook.com/reel/920574539266195/?referral_source=external_link&surface_type=tab&in_reels_tab_context=TRUE

I was still AR in the best amateur league in our county FA at 70. Only once did someone say, "Isn't it about time you gave up, liner?" and that was when I was still in my 50s! I don't look my age.

Treat them as "on the ball" incidents (where you can't be certain they were deliberate attempts to deceive) - but treat this as blatant cheating.

39 seconds to take the previous throw-in. 30 seconds before they looked ready to take the corner. A great moment.

You have a wider interpretation of "clearly demonstrates" than I do. A cartoon bum hardly looks conclusive. What happened to 5cm "tolerance" (tolerarse)?

And just when you think confidence in VAR couldn't get much lower, this image appears on the big screen...