Therefore you must acknowledge that a mistake was made in the Palace v Liverpool match last season. Benteke was put through by a pass from midfield (hard to believe, but true); the flag goes up faster than a jack-in-the-box closely followed by the referee's whistle to stop play and award a free kick to Liverpool. The TV pictures that evening showed that Benteke had been clearly "not offside" when the ball was kicked. Do you agree that that was an incorrect application of the agreed practice by the assistant and the referee?

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

I refer to my contribution on a previous post :

"Prior to last season the PL issued a new directive whereby assistants should only delay in cases when there is both a clear goalscoring opportunity and the call is a tight one. If a chance of a goal is not obvious,for instance play is headed out to the wings, or the assistant feels sure of the offside call they will flag immediately".

A case for VAR.

I don't think that this is right. I'm happy with the ruling as it stands, that a player can be offside, but not affecting play. If the defender feels he needs to intercept, so be it.
If the ball goes through to the offside player, that is then offside. If The defender makes a mistake, and attempts to intercept, and it ends up deflecting off him, to the previously offisde attacker, so bit it also - this is the art of defending.

The issue is this Active/Inactive argument. It should be very rare for a player to be regarded as Inactive when in an offside position. But alas, it is not.
in my eyes, inactive players need to be 1) at least 50% of the width of the pitch away from the ball, and 2) prone/tying shoelaces/incapacitated.
The Rashford incident mentioned earlier is a prime example. he made an effort to play the ball. but at The last minute decided against it. he affected the decisions of at least 2 defenders. for him to be deemed 'InActive' is laughable.

Edited by CrazyBadger (14 Feb 2023 2.38pm)

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

When the ball is kicked, a player standing in front of the defence to be offside.

Handball to be deliberate.

The complexity of the laws is the real reason for VAR errors imo, some are so complicated they can be both wrong and right.

It adds nothing to the game except a weekly tedious headbanger.

Phases active/inactive who cares.

Cloughie used to say if you are inactive how come you are on the pitch.

I am certainly NOT going to accuse the officials of corruption.
I do not accept for a minute that officials are corrupt.
Officials are human beings and all humans are NOT perfect.As I have already asserted perfection is not in the human gift.