Considering football fans are obsessive about football, watch it at least four days of every week, are very clued up on tactics and stats, know every player’s strengths and weaknesses, know the way different teams play, know the ins-and-outs of loads of aspects of the game and the wider sport in general; it’s quite astonishing how so few know the Laws of the Game.
They hang on every word of pundits and take their incorrect interpretations of the laws every week and take them as fact. Pundits are very often wrong about that they think the laws are.
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Football is generally a very simple sport and the laws of football are generally very simple too. It’s only the odd situation where the laws can be complicated and they nearly never come into play.
Any Palace fans moaning about their disallowed third (I think the whistle even blew before he kicked it in the net so it wasn’t even disallowed) just don’t know the law around that kind of incident. Like a huge proportion of fans don’t around the various incidents that go on every week.