Their goal

The one with Bowler was corner, but you don’t always catch those small touches. The one with Lavery looked like they were spot on - the ball seemed to not be over the line in the first place. Anyway - they can’t take a goal away from SU because we missed a corner kick 🤣
 
It’s not an offence to be in an offside-position. In fact, you can spend 90 minutes in offside, and not be at fault! Pretty sure the players were outside the 6 yard box (plural), but correct me if I’m wrong 🤗
 
BergenNorway said:
The one with Bowler was corner, but you don’t always catch those small touches. The one with Lavery looked like they were spot on - the ball seemed to not be over the line in the first place. Anyway - they can’t take a goal away from SU because we missed a corner kick 🤣
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The one in the corner was a foot over the bye line I was 10 feet away.
 
Yes I was surprised but delighted when the goal was chalked off.
Fair result, we never did enough to win it. Stewart is a class act in midfield.
 
Its a strange offside as rather than the normal definitive ‘is the player beyond the last defender’ its a subjective decision made about interfering with play. Sharp didn’t move towards the ball so no offside there, so it’s just down to a decision of whether he is blocking the keepers view, and really the only person who knows that is Grimshaw.

Got to say I would be fuming if we had scored that and it was disallowed.
 
The way the offside law these days is a right mess & makes little sense . There was an instance tonight when SU hoofed a long ball forward . SU's forward was off side but ran for it forcing Grimshaw to come out of his area & clear it into the East stand . What should really have been offside & a free kick to us ended up being a throw to them just because their player didn't touch the ball . Is the goalie meant to jut "hope" the lino flags it when the forward touches the ball & not make the effort to clear it ? STUPID new interpretation that wasn't needed .
 
BergenNorway said:
The last touch is yet to be made, so this picture doesn’t reflect the full story. Grims was not calling for any offside, which suggests he was not disturbed.
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Sky highlights show that Grimshaw didn’t appeal …. happily the referee was much older and much wiser than Grimmy and almost certainly decided that his view had been obstructed 👍
 
XBeds-Now-Kings_Meaburn said:
The way the offside law these days is a right mess & makes little sense . There was an instance tonight when SU hoofed a long ball forward . SU's forward was off side but ran for it forcing Grimshaw to come out of his area & clear it into the East stand . What should really have been offside & a free kick to us ended up being a throw to them just because their player didn't touch the ball . Is the goalie meant to jut "hope" the lino flags it when the forward touches the ball & not make the effort to clear it ? STUPID new interpretation that wasn't needed .
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Exactly. There was one pointed out on TV at the weekend, can’t remember which game. Ball played to an attacker who was offside but no flag as the ball hadn’t reached him yet, the defender had to clear as he isnt going to risk leaving it, so instead of a free kick and possession to the defending team, the attacking team who had committed the offside got possession back. Barmy!!

A change in rules made by people who have clearly never played football.
 
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We got away with one, and Grimmy needs to learn that saying nothing doesn't help, I recall a liner raising his flag a good 20 seconds after we scored at home this season after their keeper went racing out to him appealing for offside. Luckily the liner flagged it tonight, but as a few posters have said, I'd be fuming if it happened to us.
 
The liner correctly puts his flag up as Sharp is clearly in an offside position. It’s then up to the ref to decide if Sharp was impeding Grimshaw’s view. He wasn’t. The ref has guessed and got it wrong.
 
doolan_legend said:
The liner correctly puts his flag up as Sharp is clearly in an offside position. It’s then up to the ref to decide if Sharp was impeding Grimshaw’s view. He wasn’t. The ref has guessed and got it wrong.
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He was clearly obstructing Grimshaw's view... He couldn't see the deflection clearly. You can see on Lee Charles video that Sharp was in the keepers direct line of sight.
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Was right behind it in the North and Grimmy wasn't getting anywhere near that strike, obstructed vision or not.
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That's just your opinion though and has no bearing at all on whether or not it was offside in any case.
 
Something about it felt ‘wrong’ live - there was clearly a touch in the middle and the referee looked instantly at linesman. Our appeal was just large enough (other teams would have gone berserk - see QPR) to get the decision.

It was a guess from the officials - most things were on the night - perhaps a touch fortunate to get it but certainly not as clear cut as Sheff Utd players & officials are making out.
 
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