FA Cup Semi Final | Coventry City v United

[ysmsa]

Don’t talk shite. It was offside. Other end it’s offside. If they wanted them though, Coventry wouldn’t have been given a pen in the dying minutes.

As for jammy, what have they won in that decade? They’re shit.

Bollocks, off side ffs. That is not clear and obvious, not even clear from the lines drawn.
If it was given no one bats an eye lid!

Off side if VAR wants it to be.

Handballs and off side calls after a goal scored are completely different calls.

They are Jammy as Fuck, scraping results every season. I know they are shit and a bottom half side yet fudge top 6 every year with dubious officiating every fucking week.

 

[Bluearmy]

Everyone can do that. It was offside. Again though, if they wanted them through they wouldn’t have awarded the pen for cov. This moaning is RAWK like.

Can you not see the line go thru the middle of his foot?? Genuine question…

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Didn't watch this but did watch the dippers game, goal scored and VAR decided it was so tight that they stayed with the on field decision - benefited the dippers obviously.

Whereas in the FA Cup decision benefitted Yernitid. Usual shit reffing, but orders being followed for reds shirts everywhere.

 

[normskih]

if i was scruffy jim i would sack ten bob tonight

No, No, No.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Bollocks, off side ffs. That is not clear and obvious, not even clear from the lines drawn.
If it was given no one bats an eye lid!

Off side if VAR wants it to be.

Handballs and off side calls after a goal scored are completely different calls.

They are Jammy as Fuck, scraping results every season. I know they are shit and a bottom half side yet fudge top 6 every year with dubious officiating every fucking week.

Go on any other forum and they the same about us. We pay officials, have PGMOL on our payroll etc etc. That’s fans crappy views.

This though, it was offside. And the point still stands, that the cov pen in the dying minutes of a huge semi final could have been dismissed if they wanted United to go through. The paranoia is rife and, in the main, wrong

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

It wouldn’t clear anything up. You’re just moving the issue further up the field. Would still be as many marginal calls as there are now.

Yes, it might just move the line that we will argue about, but it will create a definite advantage to the attacker. It will force defenders to be truly be goal-side and not play an offside trap, whilst not catching a very marginal offside like today. Also, it’s far more likely that the AR would put their flag up, under that change.

 

[Sky Blue]

Go on any other forum and they the same about us. We pay officials, have PGMOL on our payroll etc etc. That’s fans crappy views.

This though, it was offside. And the point still stands, that the cov pen in the dying minutes of a huge semi final could have been dismissed if they wanted United to go through. The paranoia is rife and, in the main, wrong

What does your mate @Pigeonho think ?

 

[normskih]

Its offside if you dont put the line in the right place and/or dont measure from the end of the defenders foot but the middle instead

If that’s the picture they’ve used for VAR, how do they give that as offside?

 

[Edward Deadwood]

Just looked up the var rules for offside and saw the following in an espn guide.

When the blue and red lines touch then the player should be declared onside. The red and blue are so close they’re almost making purple. Certainly no grass between them.

Interesting there’s a 5cm buffer in favour of the attacking player according to the ESPN var offside guide.

Maybe this page is out of date and someone more up on the laws can put me right, or maybe the refs don’t know what they are doing or, far worse, do.

“If the line for the attacker and defender overlap, this is now considered to be too close and the attacking player will be judged onside -- no matter if the linesman raised his flag.

Now when it is so close the lines would touch, a single green "onside" image is broadcast.
Present technology means it cannot be 100%, which is one of the reasons a tolerance level, or margin of error, has been added. This gives the attacking player around 5cm.”

This did mention how the above would have helped 19 offside goals to have been given in the 2020-2021 season so perhaps they’ve tweaked things a since then?

 

[Indaparkside]

I’m glad I’m a way to batter the cunts in another final

 

[Len Rum]

It wouldn’t clear anything up. You’re just moving the issue further up the field. Would still be as many marginal calls as there are now.

But it would benefit the attacker and lead to more goals.
And chalking off a goal for a marginal call if all of the player was beyond the last defender would seem 'fairer'.
I believe it has been trialled somewhere under the initiative of Arsene Wenger but I read that it was concluded that teams got more defensive and so I'm not sure if it still being considered.

 

[Bluearmy]

I genuinely thought it was just my eyes.

So not only could they have chosen the wrong frame to select for determining offside and the frames themselves could have not actually captured the real moment the ball was released, but it looks like the line for the reference defender was not even at the extremity of the playable surface of their body closest to their own goal.

This system is riddled with bent officials….

**fixed**

 

[eastmanc]

Bollocks, off side ffs. That is not clear and obvious, not even clear from the lines drawn.
If it was given no one bats an eye lid!

Off side if VAR wants it to be.

Handballs and off side calls after a goal scored are completely different calls.

They are Jammy as Fuck, scraping results every season. I know they are shit and a bottom half side yet fudge top 6 every year with dubious officiating every fucking week.

They are jammy as fuck but it was offside.

 

[Bluearmy]

If that’s the picture they’ve used for VAR, how do they give that as offside?

Exactly

 

[Stoned Rose]

What does your mate @Pigeonho think ?

Same as @franksinatra

 

[ysmsa]

Go on any other forum and they the same about us. We pay officials, have PGMOL on our payroll etc etc. That’s fans crappy views.

This though, it was offside. And the point still stands, that the cov pen in the dying minutes of a huge semi final could have been dismissed if they wanted United to go through. The paranoia is rife and, in the main, wrong

It's not paranoia though.

We as Blues watch our games and scrutinies everything, we have to work like Fuck to win. No handouts for us.

The Coventry penalty ( I haven't seen it yet as only watched the last bit of the match) at best gave them the opportunity to equalise, not easy scoring a Pen under those circumstances.

Rags would still have been favourites to win in ET.

The Coventry disallowed goal stopped Rags from being knocked out!

Huge difference!

Rags it is, fuck 'em.

 

[Bluearmy]

They are jammy as fuck but it was offside.

It was given offside… Amazing what decision can be reached when the technology is not used correctly….

 

[Sky Blue]

Same as @franksinatra

pigeonho mate. 100%. Usual contrary bollocks.

 

[ysmsa]

They are jammy as fuck but it was offside.

If only that chance before went in off the bar, or the chance before that wasn't put wide.

No doubt the VAR wiggly toothpaste lines would gave ruled them out though.

 

[1964]

imagine the uproar if that was us