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I know this is tongue in cheek. But in all seriousness, he’s correctly spotted a highly technical, game changing KMI offside … the kind of thing you need to do to stand out from the crowd in what is a highly talented group of National List assistants.

Respect where you are coming from. And shows the inherent difficulty of Deliberate v Deflection! For me though, in this case, any attacking touch has been so slight as to have not inconvenienced / stopped the defender doing exactly what he intended. If it looks and smells like a controlled...

Having now watched the MOAS footage, I believe the decision is correct. The defender's clearance deflects off the attacker on it's way back to the CK taker, who was in an offside position at the time of the deflection. Only additional thing the AR could have done to 'sell' the decision would...

Based on the timing of the flag and the indication that the offence is ‘near side’ he has 100% given this against the corner kick taker. This player is definitely on his right hand side (and therefore in an offside position) at the time the ball is played in the penalty area. For this to be...

If it doesn’t improve, do I get my money back? 🤨🤔😂

It sounded more like a statement which (with hindsight) proved less than helpful. Sticking solely to the facts that Robertson was in an offside position and ducked to avoid the ball would have been most beneficial.

The audio suggests that a variety of factors went into the overall thinking behind the on field decision of offside. Some of these factors proved to be factually correct and some not. Based on that, I’d only expect a review to be recommended if the VAR team had a strong view that an incorrect...

Might be one of those very rare occasions when, on balance, better for an official to consciously choose to be in the 'wrong' position as it increases the chance of making the right decisions. Bit like the times where a referee chooses to stand on the RHS of the penalty area at a corner, with...

Spot on. The highly subjective nature of many of the most 'controversial' of the decisions makes the discussion almost an "unwinnable" battle. Personally, I'd love the powers that be to "come clean" and repeatedly stress that many, many decisions can be legitimately called either way. But...

If you go back about 5 years, the vast majority of officials on WSL games were men. I was lucky enough to have three years on the AR list, though obviously back then the quality of players, size of crowds etc were not as they are today. With recent efforts to bring through quality female...

It ain't rocket science :D

This thread is about the decision to disallow the Liverpool goal for offside. As evidenced by media commentary and discussion on here / other forums, it's a decision that has, unsurprisingly, divided opinion. It's a highly technical and subjective call and one of those (much like the Spurs v...

I think there are parallels here to other foul / no foul situations that have been featured in training videos (UEFA RAP). These distinguish between scenario 1 where player A knew / should have known that Player B's body was somewhere that required them to take care and scenario 2 where they...

Was entirely unsurprised to see this called offside by the on-field officials and once that has happened, no way that VAR will get involved. If a player in an offside position has to jump over or duck under a ball heading goalwards, then it's highly likely to be seen as an offence. For clarity...

Complete consistency is impossible. However, IMO, the current handball approach varies between different footballing bodies in an unacceptably large manner and IFAB need to be given licence to correct this. In simple terms, I believe that PGMO are now (belatedly) doing their best to implement...

Deliberate. And a very tough sell. In a nutshell, deliberately allowing the ball to hit your hand / arm is a deliberate action. But I’d suggest being 110% sure and then selling it with a phrase like ‘he’s deliberately controlled it with his hand’

Any time two players significantly collide it becomes a judgement call as to which way the foul should be given. On the majority of cases, the player not getting the ball is deemed to be the offender. In this clip, the only way I could see a referee justifying a penalty would be if they felt...

One interesting knock on impact from this is that, in law, having a simple retake of a free kick just because the opposing team are not back 10 yards is (I think), not supported in law. You either need to caution for delaying the restart (and then retake the FK) or judge that the lack of 10...

It's entirely possible and allowable for participant on participant OFFINABUS to occur. I've sent off one player for an obvious homophobic slur towards an opponent. I've also sent off a player for walking fifteen metres in order to loom over an opponent lying injured on the ground and shout...

I'd view an indirect free kick inside the penalty area in exactly the same way I would a more typical direct free kick from just outside. The option of a (truly) quick FK certainly exists (and defensive teams have NO rights in these situations). However, I'd advise referees to get to the spot...