Should it have stood?

[TFC]

Anybody blaming VAR or the officials are just fooling themselves, we were wank.

This. Pointless thread.

 

[WickyWain]

It shouldn't have counted due to the foul on Laporte but we got what we deserved overall which was fuck all.

 

[deano ou812]

I think he did touch it though. There was a super slow mo enhanced image in the coverage last night. I was i the pub and both me and my mate jumped and said he touched it. Not seen it again. You can sort of see it here at about 40 seconds.

My son was working last night didn’t see any of the game or watched any highlight,but Ive just shown him this and first thing he says that should have been disallowed as the player who dummied the ball is deemed offside,he’s pretty savvy on the rules,the Laporte one he says can go either way..

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

He was offside and the first line of the law says it
He played the ball. He doesn't have to touch it


A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched* by a team-mate is only penalised on becoming involved in active play by:

• interfering with play by playing or touching a ball passed or touched by a team-mate

Yeah that clears it up.!
What the hell does that mean, playing or touching.

Sometimes I think football’s rules have become deliberately vague, so that decisions can be manipulated to suit.
Conspiracy, I know, but it still does nothing to dispel the fact that we lost that game all by ourselves.
We just didn’t deserve to win that game. Simple.

 

[bluemanchester]

Nearly very nearly as bad as Bobby Owens miss in 68 or was it 69, anyway it was 50 years ago and it still rankles. You can bet your last pound that miss will never be forgotten by the media for the rest of Raheems career.

 

[bluemanchester]

I would have thought you can go in any direction you want if you are in front. If that had been in our area and Laporte was behind and Dembele cut in front to get to the ball was tripped,accidental or not, do you think City would have got away with it. In any competition domestic or European a penalty would have been given.I stand by my earlier post, football at this level is corrupt.

 

[burning blue soul]

Anybody blaming VAR or the officials are just fooling themselves, we were wank.

You are mixing 2 issues.
The quality of our play should not determine how the laws of the game are interpreted. It was a debatable off side, but clear foul (intentional or not) that saw the attacker gain an advantage that leads to a goal.
City Playing shit, with a shit line up is neither here, nor there. How many times have we been on the receiving end of shit decisions now?

 

[Burtonblue]

On the balance of probabilities that goal should not have stood.
I’m certain if that was us scoring it would have been disallowed.

 

[Stelea]

Nearly very nearly as bad as Bobby Owens miss in 68 or was it 69, anyway it was 50 years ago and it still rankles. You can bet your last pound that miss will never be forgotten by the media for the rest of Raheems career.

As bad as Sterling’s miss away at Burnley and also this season at The Swamp

 

[old blue]

Yeah that clears it up.!
What the hell does that mean, playing or touching.

Sometimes I think football’s rules have become deliberately vague, so that decisions can be manipulated to suit.
Conspiracy, I know, but it still does nothing to dispel the fact that we lost that game all by ourselves.
We just didn’t deserve to win that game. Simple.

How long before we have another rule change after we have been robbed. The Tottenham handball goal resulted in a change, the Boly goal again led to a different interpretation being applied. Now the confusion after last night, was it a trip or was it offside? unless it suits to keep it vague and subjective.