Villa vs Newcastle - As exciting as opening a gift on Christmas morning from your Auntie & it’s a pair of cheap socks.
This really made me laugh
I watched a lot of Newcastle last season because of Rafa and it was.. well, painful. Now it's even worse and Villa is even worse than Newcastle.
But it's the only game tonight so I'll still open these socks and hope they at least aren't stinky and with holes.
I still quite don't understand the offside rule perhaps, Is every body of the players that count or just the parts that can be allowed to score a goal with ? If the players hand count, then Sterling was clearly onside, and If the hand doesn't count, It's still not obvious that he was offside. I would love to be in support that goals like this should stand, but If it can be indeed proven that it was an offside (even by millmetres), allowing some goals to stand will lead to further controversies, imho.
If your hand is offside, doesn't matter. The rule says that only parts of the body you can play the ball with count when deciding if something is offside or not. In this picture I'd say Sterling is offside.
I think those borderline situations should be counted as goal. If VAR referee needs to check the video more than let's say 5 times it means that offside is borderline and that goals should stand. I understand that is difficult rule to enforce but this is also bad. Who cares about offside measured in mm? If this continues players will start to cut their nails more often and start ordering shoes one number smaller
Unfortnately, this is not possible. I agree some situations look wrong at first but I think we just need to get used to it. If it is 1mm offside, well, it's still offside. If we use your logic, we're back with the same problem - why do you allow 3mm offside and not a 5mm one? It's just 2mm difference..
I'm not that happy with VAR, especially in England where the rules are way dumber than anywhere else. It is talked about in every league round, but I still think in a few years it will be something we will get used to and that will make it more fair in the end.
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