Today’s Football 2020/21 Season

[maccavennie]

2-1 Leeds

 

[Ring master]

Toon go behind lol
west ham get the 3rd from corner

 

[RomanReigns]

pfffft palace going down

 

[Goat]

Wee Davey got these purring.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Palace have been horrendous tonight. Anyone who still thinks Zaha is worth spending big on to play on our wings is just telling everyone they aren't actually paying attention.

 

[zook]

Fed up of West Ham being good tbh

 

[Brownie]

IMO, they haven't clarified it at all.

The point not answered is: When is a player, moving back from an offside position, deemed to be onside again?

Is it when he/she reaches an 'onside position' again, or is it when a 'passage of play' is completed? And what is the definition of a passage of play? Was the first passage of play completed when the Man City player headed the GK clearance forward; the Man City player heading the ball forward, is that passage of play (the second) completed the moment Mings chests the ball down? Mings chesting the ball down and going to play it with his left foot, is that another passage of play (the third)?

At the point Mings goes to play the ball with his left foot, Rodri is clearly onside, by the definition of having two opponents nearer to their goal-line than him. Rodri's first contact on the ball is from an onside position, and he was onside when Mings first played it (third phase?).

I'm not looking to dispute with anyone, but merely to highlight how confusing this thing about 'passage of play' is. I don't know when a passage of play clearly ends, and I suspect the officials don't know either. VAR doesn't help either, in that the Ref's assistants have been told not to put their flag up immediately for offsides, even when it is patently clear!

My honest take is that the moment the Man City player headed the ball forward, and Rodri was in an offside position at that time (which he was), he should have been flagged as such. End of problem...

Hello mate. I think among all the debate we can all agree that you were completely wrong about the whole thing and should apologise to anyone who disagreed with you.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Palace have been horrendous tonight. Anyone who still thinks Zaha is worth spending big on to play on our wings is just telling everyone they aren't actually paying attention.

Lads surrounded by bums and is being played out of position.

 

[Encoder]

Love that header from West Ham. Just flinging your whole body at it.

 

[Goat]

Palace have been horrendous tonight. Anyone who still thinks Zaha is worth spending big on to play on our wings is just telling everyone they aren't actually paying attention.

Hes playing in a terrible, terrible team, with us he wouldn't be the only goal threat.

Hes still not worth 60m like, but he would improve us massively, IMO.

But he ain't taking a shirt off Rico or Hamez.

 

[Nymzee]

It's a sad day in lockdown when people are stroking the pipe to West Ham.

 

[maccavennie]

Got to be scoring that Newcastle.

 

[RomanReigns]

should be 7-1 now

 

[daza_1973]

Wee Davey got these purring.

Lets hope they still are come the RS

 

[TheBigIguana]

Hes playing in a terrible, terrible team, with us he wouldn't be the only goal threat.

Hes still not worth 60m like, but he would improve us massively, IMO.

But he ain't taking a shirt off Rico or Hamez.

He's playing as a true striker because he can't dribble anybody anymore. Speaking of which there he is getting stood up by Coufal.