Chas (Psyatika)
03 Apr 2006, 03:53 PM
I generally try my best to respect the referees' decisions in a match, but you can't get something this wrong and get away with it in my eyes :)
On a Wigan free kick crossed in from the right, about 25 yards from the goal line, every player successfully stays in onside positions. The ball comes off a Blackburn defender's head. It then immediately bounces off a nearby Wigan player's head (or chest, not sure. It was a very fast deflection). The ball bounces toward goal, and the SAME player who the ball bounced off of then runs forward and shoots the ball into the goal.
On the deflection, when the ball touches the Wigan player, everyone is played onside by the second last defender who is near the far post. Even if any of the other players were offside (which they weren't), it would be irrelevent because the Wigan player took the shot from his own deflection, and was given the ball by the Blackburn defender. He was also very clearly not in an offside position before the original free kick, but that is also irrelevent.
I try to defend all calls in matches no matter how i personally feel, but this was just plain wrong.
Officials afterwards said that the Jason Roberts was the player called offside. De Zeeuw (sp?) was the player who got the deflection and scored the goal.
Hopefully they'll show it in the highlights. I've got my DVR ready! EDIT: they didn't show it. The match is being shown again at 8PM, so i scheduled my DVR to record from 8:30 to 9:00 and i'll make the a clip of just the offside in question.
Anyway, i've got 4 matches tonight...better continue getting ready!
On a Wigan free kick crossed in from the right, about 25 yards from the goal line, every player successfully stays in onside positions. The ball comes off a Blackburn defender's head. It then immediately bounces off a nearby Wigan player's head (or chest, not sure. It was a very fast deflection). The ball bounces toward goal, and the SAME player who the ball bounced off of then runs forward and shoots the ball into the goal.
On the deflection, when the ball touches the Wigan player, everyone is played onside by the second last defender who is near the far post. Even if any of the other players were offside (which they weren't), it would be irrelevent because the Wigan player took the shot from his own deflection, and was given the ball by the Blackburn defender. He was also very clearly not in an offside position before the original free kick, but that is also irrelevent.
I try to defend all calls in matches no matter how i personally feel, but this was just plain wrong.
Officials afterwards said that the Jason Roberts was the player called offside. De Zeeuw (sp?) was the player who got the deflection and scored the goal.
Hopefully they'll show it in the highlights. I've got my DVR ready! EDIT: they didn't show it. The match is being shown again at 8PM, so i scheduled my DVR to record from 8:30 to 9:00 and i'll make the a clip of just the offside in question.
Anyway, i've got 4 matches tonight...better continue getting ready!