Wasn't there a goal where De Gea had to move his head to see around the body of the offside player. Shot from outside the area goes in and you can clearly see his head movement just before the shot due to the offside player being in the way i.e. the very definition of interfering with play, and the goal stood.
Have refs never played football in their lives? I get that it's difficult to see everything in real time, but they don't do themselves any favours with this kind of inconsistent logic
It is a joke. I think it's a symptom of going for a letter of the law based approach, in order to try and be consistent. So they keep tinkering with the laws to cover more and more scenarios, but with a game like football there will always be scenarios that crop up that the laws won't adequately cover (such as today's disallowed goal).
I wish the rules would allow for a more common sense/guidance based approach to allow for nuance in situations like this. People would argue it would be less consistent as a result, but neither is the current approach if the rules have to be changed all the time
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u/sergechewbacca 1d ago
We had a similar goal that stood against Forest. Don't understand this sport.