Offside rule changed after Silva's goal against Villa

Rodri and Bernardo must be pissing themselves. PIGMOL and the premier league have lost the plot and shown that they will cave in under pressure from their masters the media who only want red shirted clubs to win titles.
 
meltonblue said:
Because the attacker hasn’t received the ball from his own player. There is no “unfair”advantage on the other team as they’ve given the advantage themselves from the pass back.
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So what's the difference? How do you differentiate between them? Both would be scored after a player received the ball after a defender controlled the ball. What does the ref have to consider to arrive at a decision?
 
Norbiton said:
And now refs are left with interpreting "immediately". You could certainly argue that Rodri's intervention wasn't immediate as Mings had time to chest the ball down and rather ineptly bring it under control at his feet. What was needed was some ruling on how soon a player in an offside position could involve himself in challenging for the ball again.

I remember a few seasons ago, pre-VAR, when Sterling scored a far more questionable goal when in an offside position at the far post. A defender in front of him took a swing at the cross and deflected the ball straight to him. The linesman had his flag up, everybody assumed the goal wouldn't count, but the ref went over and had a word, then awarded the goal. This change in the law would still let that goal stand though it seems more dubious to me. Swansea was it? Anyway, first goal of the game when were struggling to break the opposition down.
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It’s now suitably complicated & vague so that if a team in red is involved, it can be interpreted in their favour
 
Blue Llama said:
So what's the difference? How do you differentiate between them? Both would be scored after a player received the ball after a defender controlled the ball. What does the ref have to consider to arrive at a decision?
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That one didn’t require a challenge essentially.

They do that now anyway. Like I said, it’s why you get occasions where a defender controls the ball, a player in an offside position then nicks it off him on his way back and it is given offside. There was one exactly like that in the Cheltenham game that was given.

The law has always been inconsistently applied due to the ability for interpretation. That’s true of what it was before and for the new guidance.
 
The Colonel said:
Stelling was saying on Saturday that we ”were gifted the points by a rule which nobody knows about”. Cue Merson. “ well I certainly didn’t know about it”. Really now there’s a surprise.

I suspect there will be a rule to say that the attacking player can’t challenge the first ball player on the opposing side. This is all very weird.
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Why don't we scrap offside? More goals, more entertainment, less angst and no 2 minute wait before you can celebrate a goal.
 
give it to gordon said:
But it would have been off side if the defender didnt try to play the ball ?
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Correct.

That’s also why the offside law is still, even with the new guidance, weighed too much on the attackers side for me. How’s the defender there going to know if he should try and play the ball or not?
 
Who cares. It's not as if goals like that are scored by us every week. When was the last goal we scored like that?? . I don't even think Rodri knew. He just saw Mings mis control the ball and challenged him.

Fuck them.
 
give it to gordon said:
But it would have been off side if the defender didnt try to play the ball ?
Lol
I get confused easily
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At which point would Rodri have been allowed to join in the game under the new rules? What if Mings had set off on a run with the ball, is Rodri still out of the game until Mings passes it?
 
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