It was one of the most ridiculous examples of the laws being

technically correctly applied. Never in a million years were the offside laws written to make incidents like that offside, but in a world of VAR that's what we've got.

Posted By: jamesward on May 19th 2022 at 11:16:41

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… (NCFC) - APB, May 19, 11:10:03
- On the subject of VAR (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 19, 13:42:33
- ffs (NCFC) - Huge Small, May 19, 12:33:01
  - SO MUCH THIS (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Git, May 19, 13:11:42
  - Bloke near me threw his phone onto the pitch in disgust, he didn't return for the 2nd half (n/m) (NCFC) - BSE Canary, May 19, 12:52:06
- Not sure about the staying up part. We were bottom at the time (NCFC) - earlydoors, May 19, 12:00:29
  - Like I said, conjecture. Confidence and all that. (NCFC) - APB, May 19, 14:42:21
    - Mario was excellent in that game (NCFC) - jamesward, May 19, 14:54:11
  - And we took 8 points from the next 8 games (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 19, 12:08:44
    - 8 points from 8 games (NCFC) - jamesward, May 19, 12:46:09
      - 12 points from Smith’s first 12 (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 19, 12:59:47
- I don’t know if it was unjust (NCFC) - Under soil heating, May 19, 11:31:26
  - I'm sure if i drew that offside line Pukki would have just been onside (NCFC) - Farkeball, May 19, 12:09:59
    - They probably could dispute it tbf (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 19, 12:14:20
      - for want of the obvious .. i think Farkeball (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, May 19, 12:39:47
        
        Only ways that could happen (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 19, 12:54:54
- What was unjust about the refereeing of the offside? (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 19, 11:14:06
  - The fact that the decision was made but the frame rate is too slow to be accurate. (NCFC) - APB, May 19, 14:47:06
    - The frame rate affected only a tiny proportion of decisions (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 19, 15:04:43
      - I don't dispute that. It's that one decision when it does affect it, though. (NCFC) - APB, May 19, 15:20:05
  - It was one of the most ridiculous examples of the laws being (NCFC) - jamesward, May 19, 11:16:41
    - The last offside law brought in before var basically said if it's level it's onside (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, May 19, 11:29:16
    - All the refs can do is apply offside protocols correctly (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 19, 11:24:04
      - Actually looks like they were touching (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 19, 11:37:55

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