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Today’s Football 2020/21 Season

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number4. said:
There is no interpretation of whether Mings plays the ball or not. What is open to interpretation is whether Rodri recieved the ball or not. He clearly didnt, he tackle Mings which is why it should have remained off side, as he was "interfering with an opponent by impacting on the opponent’s ability to play the ball"
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I really don't know what Rodri received the ball means.

Edit: I think I see what you mean. I still think the decision was right. If you want to change the rules fine, but I think we've made a habit in football out of getting mad at things that we don't like when they're what the laws say.
 
Fancy Palace to do West Ham tonight, hope so anyway just because of golem face

Newcastle to get a draw against Leeds

Southampton to do Arsenal again
 
The EFL can confirm that a total of 4794 players and Club staff from all 72 EFL Clubs were tested as part of last week’s testing programme, with 26 positive cases returned.
 
TheBigIguana said:
I really don't know what Rodri received the ball means.

Edit: I think I see what you mean. I still think the decision was right. If you want to change the rules fine, but I think we've made a habit in football out of getting mad at things that we don't like when they're what the laws say.
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I think it's worth pointing out that they haven't actually changed the law whatsoever.

They've simply made a clarification as how a specific situation should be judged in regards to when a player is deemed to be "interfering" after being in an offside position when the ball is played to him by a teammate. Which they do all the time, there are numerous videos and pics which denote match incidents and how they fit it the law, or how the law fits them.

It's the nature of the offside law as it stands now that it isn't a simple black and white decision, it is down to the refs interpretation that he makes based on how the law is written and the guidelines and clarifications issued by IFAB.

But even with that all they cannot cover every single incident that might occur during a game of football, hence incidents like Rodri and Mings that pretty much no one can agree on. But it happened and they've clarified that from now on it should be given offside. Thats kinda how lawmaking in football has worked over the years.
 

JLW said:
Fancy Palace to do West Ham tonight, hope so anyway just because of golem face

Newcastle to get a draw against Leeds

Southampton to do Arsenal again
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I hope so just so we dont start going down a few places, we could be 10th by ko tomorrow lol off course with 3 games in hand on W/H and 2 on most others [3 by ko on some]
 
Seamus Colemole said:
I think it's worth pointing out that they haven't actually changed the law whatsoever.

They've simply made a clarification as how a specific situation should be judged in regards to when a player is deemed to be "interfering" after being in an offside position when the ball is played to him by a teammate. Which they do all the time, there are numerous videos and pics which denote match incidents and how they fit it the law, or how the law fits them.

It's the nature of the offside law as it stands now that it isn't a simple black and white decision, it is down to the refs interpretation that he makes based on how the law is written and the guidelines and clarifications issued by IFAB.

But even with that all they cannot cover every single incident that might occur during a game of football, hence incidents like Rodri and Mings that pretty much no one can agree on. But it happened and they've clarified that from now on it should be given offside. Thats kinda how lawmaking in football has worked over the years.
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Which is fine except for the part that changing the rules based on public outrage isn't really a good strategy.
 
Ring master said:
Not the 1st time that things have been changed mid season, while saying they cant change other rules during season saying it would not be right and unfair
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I feel somewhat vindicated.

They should probably have a review panel that retroactively adjust the result of the game and then quietly shutter it after they have taken two points from Everton a la Niasse.
 
Ring master said:
I hope so just so we dont start going down a few places, we could be 10th by ko tomorrow lol off course with 3 games in hand on W/H and 2 on most others [3 by ko on some]
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West Ham are no threat to us, we will be at least 8 points clear of them come May. They’re just having a good little run that’s all.
 

JLW said:
Fancy Palace to do West Ham tonight, hope so anyway just because of golem face

Newcastle to get a draw against Leeds

Southampton to do Arsenal again
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Hoping for a Palace win
Newcastle to play crap but scrape a win against Leeds ( don't want Newcastle to get too much confidence but don't want Bruce sacked yet and I always enjoy it when Leeds lose )
Saints and Arsenal to draw hopefully. Southampton can go level with us or above depending on margin of win. Dont want Arsenal winning, keep them piped down so a nice drab 0-0 will be perfect ;)
Man City to go top.of the league after smashing the Gravy Guzzler!

A good night of footy hopefully
 
JLW said:
West Ham are no threat to us, we will be at least 8 points clear of them come May. They’re just having a good little run that’s all.
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I know they are not, just dont want us to slowly go down and not make the games in hand count - Like Everton could easily do but off course hope they dont
 
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TheBigIguana said:
Which is fine except for the part that changing the rules based on public outrage isn't really a good strategy.
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They haven't really changed the rules (I know you know that) so much as added a directive intended to clarify the rules.

Its unfortunate really, the rules are short in number, succinct and have an underlying principle of fairness baked in. The above allows for discretion on the part of the official to ensure the underlying principle of fairness is observed. When you start adding all of these clarifying diktats, then some unfairness is going to happen in order to obey the letter of tlhe aw.

I quite agree with you though.

I'm a bit naive arent i?
 

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