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How the liner gives this onside before their first goal beggars belief, but you always get the 'good decisions' at the top end and the 'crap one's' at the bottom of the division.



Is our right back shaking our keepers hand out of shot at the time? Oh, hang on, we had a back 3 and you can see all of them. Chicken says Pearson played him onside, not in this freeze frame he didn't.

Your freeze-frame is actually after the ball has been played. It may only be a split-second difference, but even in that brief instant a player can lean into his run and look further off than he was a moment earlier. This shot is *exactly* when the pass was made.



Would VAR give it offside? Probably, as that left foot's still a bit suspect, even allowing for the dodgy angle. But as I've said countless times on here (with decisions both for and against teams I support), if a player looks bodily in line with a defender in real time - and you'd have to be one-eyed to say that's not the case here - then for me it's football's equivalent of "umpire's call" in cricket; benefit of the doubt should apply, and VAR be damned.

Still, hopefully it shouldn't affect your season overall