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Match Sporting (H) - UCL - 26/10, 8pm

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You can be offside if the ball is played backwards, just checked.

Deflects off a sporting player and his hand is the real issue.

Can you find the rule?

This is what I found and it makes sense why wouldn't you just not put anyone in the box for a corner if that's the case

You can't be offside from a backwards pass

The third means that an offensive player can always play the ball laterally or backwards, even to a player who'd otherwise be offside (this would occur in the two-on-one possibility from Figure 1), and also means that it's physically impossible to be offside on a corner kick.18 Apr 2017
 
Doherty looking very sheepish answering the question as to why we can only play when we’re behind. Obviously toeing the party line.
 
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I read 2:1 in Kicker app
 
I just can't believe ANY of us were STUPID enough to celebrate that goal... I punched the air with pure, unadulterated joy.... but more fool me.... Shoulda waited for fucking VAR to decide whether I'm allowed to BE HAPPY or not!
A fucking MOMENT if happiness.... ripped away... Nah, fuck that, how DARE anyone enjoy ANY brief moment of happiness in this fucking SHITSHOW world we live in right now!
Of COURSE we should have that happiness ripped out of our hands.... How DARE we be happy any more!! What's the fucking point?

Tell you what.... Give the cunts what they want...
Imgine a stadium who greet a last minute 'winning' goal with ABSOLUTE SILENCE?

Let Sky try and sell THAT product to the world!

But hey, if that's what they want, that's what they'll get...
You tell us when we're 'allowed' to be happy, and we'll oblige.... just give us the nod, ok?

Fucking killjoy cunts!
Knew as soon as I saw our celebrations that it would be ruled out. The powers that be don't like authentic moments.
 
I never said we played well did i??
So how were we robbed?

By one bad call at the death? You think we deserved to win that match? Would you rather blame some guy in an office drawing some dodgy lines on the screen or the shite display for the first 60 minutes? The garbage tactics? The lack of guts on display from the majority of our players?

Blaming the officials achieves nothing, acknowledging the latter 3 points might.

We weren't robbed, if the goal had stood the Sporting players would be more justified in feeling robbed, not because of the decision, because of the performance over 96 minutes.
 
Much better second half whilst still lacking any real quality and cutting edge. But the basic thing you would expect from anyone getting paid £200,000 a week to kick a fucking football around, effort and heart, were at least there.

Ordinarily I'd be fuming with that last minute VAR call. However based on that cowardly first half performance they didn't deserve it anyway. You cannot go out and play, to a man, in the way that they did in that first half. It simply isn't acceptable.

Special mention for Emersons no look pass by the way. I didnt know whether to laugh or cry. He can't even pass when he's looking what he's doing. He's got some bollocks though I'll give him that.
 
So Conte will be in the stands for our last game, with his red card? Maybe the players could be a bit sneaky and start on the front foot while he’s not shouting down their ear holes?
 
Come on, he doesn't have superman reflexes. The ball was headed off his foot.

I think the offsides call was BS but that was never a deliberate play by the defender.
If you block a ball, you are deliberately playing the ball. Where do you draw the line. If a player puts out his leg and the ball touches his leg is that deliberate? If you want to pass the ball to someone and you slip and pass the ball to someone in an offside position who scores, does that count because it wasn't deliberate? The defender causes the ball to change direction into the path of Kane. He went to block the cross deliberately. His action gave the desired result. If the defender had not touched the ball, the ball would have went behind Kane.
 
i don't understand the rules?

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if he heads it along the path of blue arrow then i think that is off side.

if he heads it backwards, cannoning off the defender into kane's path along the path of the yellow arrows, i thought that wasn't off side
I don't think the rules even have a clause for that exact occurrence. They've decided that at the moment the ball was played, Kane's knee is one micron ahead of Royal's head, and that's it.
 
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