[theo_luddite]

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

The issue is the liner is he's looking backwards, not forwards. He's offside if the liner is leaning right and not left. Fook knows we had those calls against us umpteen times before, especially with VAR in the Prima Donna League. We have to put up with the incompetence of refs in this division without VAR. We had to put up with the incomptetence of refs and VAR in the Prima Donna League for two seasons (good luck with that if you get to Wembley or promoted) and our recent play-off final.

It's not just his foot - https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-gov...---offside

Anyway, as I've said on your pages, good luck. Nowt agin Baggies fans, it's the bloody refs I have an issue with.