Interesting isn't it ?
Lucky for us Frank showed he was clueless from the start so we got rid and got the fix early , unlike the fella at Saints and Silva at Watford who flattered to deceive at first.

I would just like to add I enjoyed the save by Wayne last night in the first half.

I think that the offside rule, if properly applied, encourages well constructed and skilful attacking play. The problem is that, given the speed of movement of ball and players, and the fact that officials standing perhaps the width of a pitch away are trying to adjudicate on a matter involving just a few inches, it's impossible for them not to make errors. Bearing in mind that goals depend on them getting it right, I would have no objection to video technology being used in theses situations. Getting back on topic, my own view, for what it's worth, is that technology would have shown Benteke to be offside.

I think Tekkers is very fractionally offside for a moment but how do you synchronise that with the moment at which the ball is kicked.

When he heads it he is not in front of a defender so nothing there.

Why, as an official, give anything marginal or unsure?

Because they are human beings under pressure having to give instant decisions.

My idea of a good official would be one who just doesn't give penalties.

Then we can rediscover football?

Why don't they call it POTD not MOTD.

'An hour of penalty analysis occasionally interrupted by football'.

Roy sounded irritated with it as there was plenty of good football in the game.

And some costly wrong offside decisions last night elsewhere.

But then that's me.

Offside..........

The general rule of thumb when it comes to offside is the benefit of the doubt should go to the offense. I guess the pundits for something to justify their pay checks.

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I watched the replay of the match last night (at least the last 30 minutes which I missed in real time). He was offside for the 1st goal by a fraction, but enough to be seen on the TV. It was enough for a replay official to have chalked that one off, I think.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.