Awful first half very little happened!
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I've forgotten how much I hate Newcastle, its supporters, it's kit and especially that shadow that goes over half their pitch.
They do this all the time. Never works as the atmosphere is crap. It a football myth that the ground is always jumping.Apparently they have set up a "singing section" in one of the end stands. Oh.....sweet.....jesus......
If you'd have read the rest of the law it quite clearly states that a player can only be deemed offside if he/she is closer to the goal than the ball. This means if a ball is played backwards or square then he/she can not be given offside.No it doesn't mate, the direction of the ball is not mentioned in the law.
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Offside is one of the laws of association football, codified in Law 11 of the Laws of the Game. The law states that a player is in an offside position, when he/she receives the ball which is played by a teammate, actively involved in the play. A player is in an offside position if any of their body parts with which they can touch the ball during any other part of the play is in the opponents' half of the pitch and closer to the opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second-to-last opponent (usually, but not necessarily always, the last defensive player in front of the goalkeeper).[1] Being in an offside position is not an offence in itself; at the moment the ball touches, or is played by, the player's team, the player must also be "actively involved in the play" in the opinion of the referee, in order for an offence to occur.[1] When the offside offence occurs, the referee stops play and awards an indirect free kick to the defending team from the position of the offending player.[1]"
When the ball was played to the guy in the middle his left leg was closer to the goal than the ball and 2 liverpool defenders, thus he was offside.
But it was ridiculously difficult for a linesman to see so understandable and hilarious that he didn't.