City Vs Bournemouth Post Match Thread

[CelesteItis]

this

Sterling onside, since Pablo's onside header, the cherry trying to block Zaba's nod played onside both Wilfried and Raheem. End of.

Iheanacho also onside.

 

[Kaini Industries]

Excuse me.

http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside.aspx

The interpretations PDF

"Any defending player leaving the field of play for any reason without the referee’s permission shall be considered to be on his own goal line or touch line for the purposes of offside until the next stoppage in play"

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[Tricky_Trev]

Excuse me.

http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside.aspx

The interpretations PDF

"Any defending player leaving the field of play for any reason without the referee’s permission shall be considered to be on his own goal line or touch line for the purposes of offside until the next stoppage in play"

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Ahh interpretations. Nice one. Sorry!

 

[cleavers]

Excuse me.

http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside.aspx

The interpretations PDF

"Any defending player leaving the field of play for any reason without the referee’s permission shall be considered to be on his own goal line or touch line for the purposes of offside until the next stoppage in play"

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Its common sense too, players would be leaping off the pitch left right and centre, if some common sense wasn't applied.

 

[Eebo]

Looked to me like the defender was back on the pitch by the time the pass was made to Sterling.
Even if he was not back on the pitch, then he was still playing Sterling onside.

"Players in either of these situations – whether they left the field during the course of play or stepped off to place an opponent in an offside position – are considered to be part of the game and thus accountable when determining offside position by their opponents."

Virtually all reports mention that Sterling was or might have been offside, which means that the reporters are ignorant of the rules.

 

[cleavers]

which means that the reporters are ignorant of the rules

That can't be true surely ? Who'd have thought it ?

 

[didsburyblu]

Very pleasing result. Great effort by Sterling, Wilf gained confidence, no card for Fern.

The only downside was yet another blind linesman. Kelechi scored a perfectly well taken, on side goal and it gets rubbed out. Honestly the FA has to do something about these officials.

Personally I love that linesman as had £20 on 5-1 at 33-1 (also had 5-0) but yeah goal should deffo have stood

 

[NorCalBlue]

That can't be true surely ? Who'd have thought it ?

It's bad enough that reporters often show their ignorance of the rules, but it drives me up the wall when the 'expert analyst' in the commentary booth, who's usually a former professional player, is equally ignorant.

 

[Paladin]

The Bournemouth player had his hand on the line at the point Bony played the ball to Sterling.

Highlights here. http://lasthighlight.com/manchester-city-vs-bournemouth-highlights-full-match/

 

[OB1]

Was impressed with the way Bournemouth kept going but we barely gave them a sniff in the second half; despite being in second gear. We still give too many cheap freekicks away and I thought one or two corners were unecessary.

Plenty of good performances from our players and great to see the Bony / Sterling partnership work so well.

Kudos to Sagna for slotting in so well at left back.